Featured substack Substack’s hard yards: building a business when the cash dries up As VC cash grows scarce, staff are laid off and big names start exiting the platform, Substack can ill afford PR blunders like cutting off an editor from work, because one of his clients left the platform. Adam Tinworth Aug 23, 2022 9 min read
substack Substack’s app: building the VC moat Substack has launched a reader app for iOS, turning itself from a newsletter company into a platform one. Publishers — beware. Adam Tinworth Mar 9, 2022 3 min read
news review News Review: Instacash, more cash less dash for Tortoise, and Substack gets into video Six stories from around the web that will inform your audience strategy. Adam Tinworth Jan 28, 2022 3 min read
politics Cummings and goings Two years ago, Dominic Cummings' blog went silent — at the request of the Prime Minister. Now, he's giving us insights into the workings of government again via Substack — but with an agenda. Adam Tinworth Jan 19, 2022 5 min read
newsletters Substack targets the UK, and hires away Elle editor-in-chief The VC-funded newsletter platform looks to secure writers and increase growth in the UK — its second biggest market. Adam Tinworth Nov 30, 2021 2 min read
video I miss deadlines. Would you? Some thoughts on B2B newsletters, the endless pivot to video, and Substack's growing moat. Adam Tinworth Sep 21, 2021 5 min read
community management Substack buys in community management expertise The VC-backed newsletter firm has acquired community management consultants People & Company Adam Tinworth May 14, 2021 4 min read
Members only newsletters Why newsletters won't kill newspapers And why unbundling the opinion columnists might be a good thing for news in general. Adam Tinworth Apr 29, 2021 4 min read
substack Six thoughts about the Substack Local initiative Newsletter platform Substack is chucking $1m of its VC cash at local news journalism. Is this helpful — or just marketing? Adam Tinworth Apr 15, 2021 3 min read
creator economy How newsletters will inevitably change media and the power of journalists Worrying about Substack is just a proxy for worrying about the business impact of losing star journalists to their own newsletters. Adam Tinworth Apr 12, 2021 4 min read
Members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media Adam Tinworth Apr 7, 2021 2 min read
Members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: what the Unsplash sale and the Substack investment mean for you Some swift analysis on the two big publishing deals of yesterday. Adam Tinworth Mar 31, 2021 3 min read
Paid members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: asking the right questions How to ask better questions as a journalist, some changes to Substack — and the changes Twitter needs to make. Adam Tinworth Mar 29, 2021 2 min read
substack Why Substack's evolution is beginning to worry me Is the newsletter platform a boon for independent journalism — or the beginnings of another attention gatekeeper that we'll all regret supporting? Adam Tinworth Dec 10, 2020 4 min read
evergreen content Essential evergreen content, the Substack revenue question and the future of student media: this week’s key links A digital basic people still struggle with, some thoughts on the newsletter opportunity — and an influencer's façade crumbles… Adam Tinworth Nov 27, 2020 5 min read
substack Matt Yglesias leaves Vox for Substack: is he doing a Newton or a Sullivan? Another writer mired in controversy leaves a Vox Media publication to start his own newsletter. What’s happening here? Adam Tinworth Nov 13, 2020 3 min read
Members only online harassment Better tools for better online communities Five quick links about online abuse of local journalists, Facebook’s attempt to cleanse its groups, and some community-centric publishing tools. Adam Tinworth Sep 24, 2020 4 min read
Paid members only newsletters Casey Newton's shift to Substack shows how newsletters are changing On the day he breaks another major Facebook story, Verge tech editor Casey Newton jumps ship for the Substack way Adam Tinworth Sep 23, 2020 4 min read
Paid members only substack Cancel Culture afterlife: Glinner and Substack Where do you go, if you've been banned from Twitter? Off to the newsletter platform, to start building an audience - and a revenue stream - there. Adam Tinworth Sep 9, 2020 5 min read
Members only twitch The next wave of indie media, the Twitch ban hammer and Google's wallet Twitch and Reddit ban things, Google might start paying for things, and podcasts still have indie cred. What a way to start the week. Adam Tinworth Jun 30, 2020 6 min read
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