This week, there's a recap of lessons from the 2nd Newsletter Conference (missed it this year 🥲), a big media company has started a Substack, and a look at how you should be running your newsletter business in 2025.
Also the featured newsletters this week cover guitars, literature, marketing, and more.
📰 News & Articles
What I Learned at The Newsletter Conference This Year
Dan Oshinsky shares a bunch of lessons, on topics ranging from newsletter metrics to growth, that stood out at the 2025 edition of The Newsletter Conference.
Q1 2025 Email Patterns, Trends, and Outliers
Really Good Emails shares the latest email trends, patterns, and outliers from Q1 2025 and what people are using to build future emails.
New York Magazine is now publishing on Substack
To try and meet readers on their preferred platforms, New York Magazine is now publishing one of its daily newsletters on Substack.
Attachments helped email go global
An interesting look at the history of email attachments, and how they helped email become a global phenomenon.
Substack launches audio-only livestream feature
Substack announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an audio-only livestream feature for publishers who want a lower-pressure way to connect with their followers.
Why I Want Email Read Receipts (and You Might Too)
A potentially controversial opinion piece on the benefits of email read receipts, and how they can help you understand your audience better.
Why “newsletter ad-only” businesses are dead and how to adapt
Matt McGarry shares some hot takes on the current state of newsletter businesses when ran the way most people do.
⭐ Featured Newsletters
The Free Toaster
The best newsletter for fintech marketers
The Global Marketer
Insights and strategies for global growth marketers.
Pens and Poison
The literary project of author Liza Libes
Vivid Guitar
Improve your guitar playing and knowledge in minutes a week.
See Ya
This is our weekly newsletter covering tips and tools for newsletter operators and everything else happening in the email newsletter space. Hope you enjoyed it!
