Subscribing to URN

You can now subscribe to URN,wherever you are in the world. When you become a subscriber, we will give you credit worth 1 USD (1$), to use as you see fit. After that, you can top up your balance using all popular credit cards, through our payment partner, PayPal.

Articles

With the credit in your account, you will be able to unlock our recent articles. When you access an article, you will be able to unlock it at a certain cost, depending on the article:

  • Top stories cost 10 cents (0.10$) to unlock.
  • Regular stories cost 5 cents (0.05$) to unlock.

Once you’ve unlocked a story, it will be unlocked forever.

Photography

With the credit in your account, you will also be able to license most of our images as royalty free stock photography. The cost of licensing is as follows and is subject to availability:

  • Photos smaller than 512 pixels on both sides can be licensed for a fixed fee of 1 USD (1$).
  • Photos smaller than 1024 pixels on both sides, but larger than 512 pixels on at least one side, can be licensed for a fixed fee of 4 USD (4$).
  • Photos smaller than 2048 pixels on both sides, but larger than 1024 pixels on at least one side, can be licensed for a fixed fee of 9 USD (19$).
  • Photos smaller than 4096 pixels on both sides, but larger than 2048 pixels on at least one side, can be licensed for a fixed fee of 19 USD (19$).
  • Photos larger than 4096 pixels on at least one side can be licensed for a fixed fee of 39 USD (39$).

In short, you can do whatever you like with the photos, except redistribute them in their own right. For the full license agreement, which you abide by, by purchasing any licensed image, is here.

Once you’ve purchased a license, the photo in question will be available to you forever.

Licensed images do not contain the URN watermark.

Topping up your balance

We will give you 1 USD (1$) when you sign up as a subscriber. On top of that, you can top up your balance at your convenience. We use PayPal to handle payments, meaning you can use all major credit cards, bank transfers and more to keep your balance up to date. The more credit you add to your balance, the more credit we give you for free:

  • Top up with 1 USD (1$) and you’ll get our thumbs up.
  • Top up with 2.50 USD (2.50$) and we will give you a 0.25 USD (0.25$) bonus.
  • Top up with 5 USD (5$) and we will give you a 1 USD (1$) bonus.
  • Top up with 10 USD (10$) and we will give you a 2.50 USD (2.50$) bonus.
  • Top up with 25 USD (25$) and we will give you a 10 USD (10$) bonus.
  • Top up with 100 USD (100$) and we will give you a 50 USD (50$) bonus.
  • Top up with 1000 USD (1000$) and we will give you a 1000 USD (1000$) bonus.

Your credits never expire. Credits are not transferable. Check the below table to understand the discounts you get when you top up with larger amounts.

 

You top up with You receive Bonus
1 1 0%
2.50 2.75 10%
5 6 20%
10 12.50 25%
25 35 40%
100 150 50%
1000 2000 100%

 

Ads

As long as you’ve got a balance in your account that’s 5 cents or more, we will not show you any ads with the news articles on our website.