The Borowitz Report was founded in 2001 but only launched a paid newsletter offering in March 2024. Now it’s got tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Here’s why Andy Borowitz’s readers keep following — and supporting — him.
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Tangle, a daily newsletter that goes in-depth on one big news topic per day, now has 100,000 readers and more than 16,000 paying members. Founder Isaac Saul explains how he built it.
At age 19, a first-time founder based in the Philippines launched a newsletter about business and tech. Two years later, it’s one of the top resources in the region.
How three newsletter operators on Beehiiv — Zain Kahn of Superhuman, Quinn Emmett of Important, Not Important, and Pete Huang of The Neuron — reached the six-figure milestone, and what you can do to get there, too.
Email can be an incredible tool for driving readers to support your work or buy something. Here’s how top newsletters convince readers to pull out a credit card and take the next step.
On the challenges of producing a newsletter from India, the value of keeping communities small, the double-edged sword of audience surveys, and how to do more for yourself by doing less.
You don’t need to have a huge newsletter audience to successfully monetize. Here’s how Notes from a Hired Pen leveraged a small newsletter list into big sales.
Building a community through Discord or Slack could be a way to deepen engagement with readers and drive additional revenue. But it comes with a lot of work — and some potential headaches.
Over the past seven years, Virginia Sole-Smith’s grown Burnt Toast into a product that brings in six figures annually. Here’s what she’s learned about deciding what content to paywall, what kind of perks to give away to paying subscribers, and why her reader surveys are designed to get feedback from superfans.
Moby never set out to build an ad business around their newsletter. But with 250,000 subscribers — and some help from Who Sponsors Stuff — they’ve created a 7-figure ad strategy. Here’s what others can learn from their story.