This provides rolling coverage and analysis on six to eight business and political topics of global importance each day. The aim of Global Agenda is to translate the essence of The Economist into a web format to meet the group's strategic high-end audience's online needs, including helping them to prioritize. The site was the first European-based site to offer tiered access and online subscriptions.
Subscribers now account for about one third of the site's monthly visitors.
The Economist website is continually in development. Many new and exciting areas are planned over the coming year. The Economist Web Edition includes the full weekly editorial - as seen in the printed version. All surveys, in-depth analyses covering country and industry topics, are also online. The Economist Web Edition is currently free to Economist print subscribers.