Substack Ad Plans + Email's Future

June 18, 2026 |
Keenen Charles

This week Substack announce their plans for ads and sponsorships on the platforms. It's been a long time coming but felt inevitable that they'd embrace one of the most common ways to monetize newsletters. We also look at the future of email and successful food newsletters.

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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!

Keenen Charles

Keenen is the creator of InboxReads and a believer in the future of newsletters and email for sharing great content.

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