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For a monthly fee, users can build a Ghost website or blog, on a fully managed installation, with weekly updates and access to email support. The hosted platform is owned and operated by the Ghost Foundation, and all revenue generated from the service is used to fund further development of the software, and the project's infrastructure.
The Substack founders reached out to a small pool of writers in 2017 to acquire their first creators. [10] Bill Bishop was among the first to put his newsletter, Sinocism, on Substack, providing his newsletter for $11 a month or $118 a year with daily content. [5] As of 2019, Bishop's Sinocism was the top paid newsletter on the service. [37]
In 2020, he left to create his own freemium newsletter on Substack called Platformer, [6] [2] [11] with the paid subscription costing US$10 per month. [4] Substack incentivized authors with advances, which Newton turned down, but accepted healthcare stipends. [2] As of January 2024, Platformer had 170,000 subscribers to the free edition. [12]
Substack vs. Social Media . Substack differs from blogging systems of yore in some key ways: It's set up primarily for emailed content (largely newsletters but also podcasts and videos), it has ...
The newsletter publisher Substack said Monday it had removed five publications that included incitements to violence, after weeks of pressure from writers who threatened to quit the platform over ...
One of Substack’s top newsletters, Platformer, which publishes tech industry news, told its more than 172,000 subscribers this week that it was considering leaving the platform.
Substack confirmed that it was the top newsletter on the platform by revenue. It is also at the top of the leaderboard at Substack for politics. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] As of December 2024, The Free Press had over 136,000 subscribers and was taking in at least $10 million annually.
In July 2021, Burr left the Globe to start "Ty Burr's Watch List", an online newsletter devoted to reviews of and commentary on theatrical and streaming films, TV, and other popular culture. Initially published on Substack, the Watch List switched to the Ghost platform in early 2024 when it became known that Substack was publishing and ...