“…However, clustering techniques remain as an important and effective data mining solutions to identify users' clusters (Koul & Philip, 2021). Although consumer segmentations are popular across industries (Nasir et al, 2021;Vinothini & Priya, 2018), particularly in e-commerce (Koul & Philip, 2021;Punhani et al, 2021;Shen, 2021), or across B2C DSBM businesses, for example, online social games (Fu et al, 2017), movie industry (Tanuwijaya et al, 2021), education (Smit et al, 2019), and online news readers (La Torre, 2020), no study was found in the particular case of news publishers focused on engagement attributes. Thus, based on the premise that the best predictor of future consumer behavior is past consumer behavior (Kamthania et al, 2018), this research addresses the problem of identifying different reader profiles based on reader engagement attributes (Fernandes et al, 2023) and behavioral features (Shen, 2021) collected from an online newspaper.…”