How to ‘gift’ a Townsville Bulletin article to your unsubscribed friends

Dear subscribers, did you know you can send a story for free to someone you know? Here’s how.

The gift feature allows a subscriber to send an article to someone else, giving them the ability to read the whole story - even if they are not a subscriber themselves.

Dear subscribers, did you know you can send a story for free to someone you know?

Last year, News Corp Australia introduced a “gift article” feature on all their newspaper websites, allowing subscribers to send a one-time access link to a non-subscriber.

Townsville Bulletin subscribers are able to ‘gift’ stories up to ten times every 28 days.

How can I gift a story?

The gift feature allows a subscriber to send an article to someone else, giving them the ability to read the whole story - even if they are not a subscriber themselves.

Have you noticed this blue present icon at the bottom of every story?

Clicking this button will give you the option to gift an article, and will create a special access link that you can share with a friend.

It’s not just the Townsville Bulletin you can gift

As a Townsville Bulletin subscriber, you can also get behind the paywall at our sister papers (Cairns Post, Courier Mail, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Advertisers, Gold Coast Bulletin, The Mercury, NT News, and more)

All of these papers also have identical gift buttons you can also used to create free links for your friends, family, and ever co-workers.

The gift feature allows a subscriber to send an article to someone else, giving them the ability to read the whole story - even if they are not a subscriber themselves.

How many people can access the link?

Once you generate a link, it can only be read once.

When a link is opened and the story read, the gift is ‘consumed’ and the link will stop working.

This means if you put the gift link in a group chat or email it to several people, only the first person who clicks on the link will be able to read the full article.

Because of this, if someone opens the link and starts reading the story on their phone, but then exits out of it and tries to open the story again on their computer, it will not work.

Originally published as How to ‘gift’ a Townsville Bulletin article to your unsubscribed friends