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A proposed cure for media angst about Substack
While it faces challenges, traditional media can help seed the next generation of media enterprises and build with, instead of on, writers.
Hamish McKenzie
Feb 25
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New! Better analytics for your subscribers
Today, we’re releasing a new and improved Subscribers dashboard that helps you understand and interact with your subscribers in important ways, such as…
Rob C
Feb 18
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Welcome, Facebook and Twitter. Seriously.
If Facebook and Twitter are earnest in their pursuit of the paid-newsletter opportunity, I implore them to go all in.
Hamish McKenzie
Feb 4
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Zeynep Tufekci offers an antidote to the attention economy
With Insight, Zeynep is cultivating a space for intelligent debate, in direct contrast to the fast-twitch, fire-and-brimstone approach that prevails on…
Hamish McKenzie
Jan 27
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New! More options to customize your Substack
We’ve heard from writers that they’d like more flexibility to customize the appearance of their Substack. Starting today, you’ll see a few new options …
Jan 8
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Substack’s view of content moderation
Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge
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Hamish McKenzie
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Jairaj Sethi
Dec 22, 2020
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Announcing new ways to read and find writers on Substack
Today, we’re introducing new ways to discover writers on our homepage, as well as the beta version of Substack Reader, a new way to keep up with your n…
Dec 16, 2020
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Give a gift subscription, plus our 2020 holiday guide
It's that time of year again. Give a subscription to your favorite writer's newsletter to your loved ones, and check out our holiday recommendations.
Dec 4, 2020
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Meet the first batch of Substack Bridge mentees
We recently announced Substack Bridge, our inaugural mentorship program aimed at supporting emerging writers through eight weeks of 1:1 mentorship with…
Ellie MacBride
Nov 3, 2020
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New! Add image captions and alt text
You can now add captions and alt text to images in your Substack posts.
Nov 2, 2020
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We’re taking a step towards carbon removal – and you can help
We’re working with Stripe to make it simple for writers to contribute to an effort to protect our habitat.
Oct 28, 2020
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New! Customize your post’s URL + social preview
We’ve added a few more ways to help your posts stand out: customizable post URLs and the ability to upload any image as a social preview. To edit your …
Oct 26, 2020
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