What is the generic term for a thing you subscribe to?

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I'm trying to set up a naming convention for some software I'm working on, and I need a name for the thing that people subscribe to. In my model we have:

Subscriber (a person)
Subscription (the 'link' between the person and the thing being subscribed to.
??? (The thing that the person has subscribed to).

In this case, ??? needs to be some generic name. I'm currently using 'Series', but that's not self-explanatory, and is also somewhat painful (in the software environment I'm using) as the singular and plural is the same.

As an analogy, we might have:

Employee (the person who is employed)
Employment (the position/role of the person)
Employer (the company or person providing the position)

Except that 'employment' is continuous, and I need a discrete term: the subscriber receives a series of individual 'things' as part of their subscription, rather than a recurring payment for a continuous service.

TrevorD · Accepted Answer

One normally subscribes to a Service - whether that be the provision of a monthly magazine, the the provision of technical support, the provision of access to a particular website, etc..

service
  1.  [mass noun] The action of helping or doing work for someone.
  1.1 [count noun] An act of assistance.
  1.2 Assistance or advice given to customers during and after the sale of goods.

Alan De Smet · Answer

Publisher. It maps nicely to real world subscribers who receive subscriptions to periodicals from publishers.  And the general pattern is known as the Publish-subscribe pattern.

David Dale · Answer

Maybe, it's just Source?
Because it's the source of the 'things' which the subscriber receives.

What is the generic term for a thing you subscribe to?

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