All posts tagged: Substack

Claude AI Marketing Team Builds LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube & X Posts

Claude AI Marketing Team Builds LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube & X Posts

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Building an marketing team from scratch often demands a combination of strategic planning and creative execution, but Marketing Against the Grain demonstrates how Claude Code can simplify and enhance this process. By using Claude Code’s modular system, which includes 11 distinct skills across five functional layers, they created an AI-powered team capable of handling tasks like audience profiling, content idea generation and performance analysis. For example, the system adapts writing styles to fit platform-specific tones, making sure consistency and engagement whether crafting a LinkedIn post or a Substack newsletter. Explore how this AI-driven marketing system integrates automation with feedback loops to continuously refine content strategies. You’ll gain insight into how it tailors content for platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter), making sure maximum relevance and impact. Additionally, discover how its flexibility accommodates diverse audience profiles and content formats, from concise social media posts to in-depth articles. This breakdown offers a practical look at how AI can streamline your marketing workflows while maintaining creative adaptability. AI Marketing Team Overview TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude …

Substack launches a built-in recording studio

Substack launches a built-in recording studio

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Publishing platform Substack is continuing to invest in video content as it launches the Substack Recording Studio, a built-in mechanism for creators to pre-record and publish videos. The studio, which is only available on the desktop, can support solo videos as well as conversations with up to two guests. Creators can add custom watermarks to their videos and share their screen with co-hosts. Once the recording is over, Substack auto-generates clips and thumbnails for sharing. “Until now, creating video on Substack meant going live, or stitching together a separate stack of tools: a recording platform, a way to create and distribute clips, and something to design a thumbnail,” the company shared in a blog post. “Substack Studio brings all of those tools into one place.” The post also notes that creators who have used audio or video on Substack in the past 90 days have grown revenue 50% faster than creators who haven’t. Though Substack is predominantly known as a newsletter platform, the company has been showing a keen interest in video over the last few …

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Published by Sam Flores

Digital subscriptions pages or homepages for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Zealand Herald, Mail+ and Apple News+, all screenshotted on 5 March 2026 New entrants on Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranking of the biggest subscription news websites in the world include in 2026 include The Irish Times Group, Goalhanger and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranks English-language publishers with at least 100,000 paying digital subscribers. Fifty-nine news and magazine publishers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India appear on the list. Scroll down or click here for the full ranking. This compares with just 24 titles making the grade as members of the 100k Club when Press Gazette launched this ranking in 2020. The New York Times (12.21 million digital subscribers, up 13% year on year – but some are only non-news products) makes up 23% of the subscriptions on the entire list of 59 publishers. Substack now has more than five million paying subscribers to publications on its platform (from whom it …

Beehiiv CEO says platform on ‘very divergent path’ to Substack

Beehiiv CEO says platform on ‘very divergent path’ to Substack

Published by Sam Flores

Beehiiv CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk giving a presentation at a Beehiiv event in London on 12 February 2026. Picture: LRock Media The CEO of Substack rival Beehiiv says the growing platform has a key philosophical difference from its more established rival. Both platforms have a focus on building paid newsletter audiences. But whereas Substack is establishing itself as a publishing brand in its own right, Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk said his company believes publishers should completely own their audience. He said Beehiiv is going down a “very divergent” path compared to Substack despite early comparisons between the two competitors. Beehiiv has positioned itself as a platform that provides the tech and infrastructure to help both large publishers and individual creators monetise their content. The infrastructure includes newsletters, website hosting, paid subscriptions, an advertising network and free and paid growth tools. Podcasts are expected to launch within the next month and a community feature, which will essentially enable newsfeeds dedicated to specific publications so their users can engage with each other, will follow later this …

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack

Published by Sam Flores

The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish articles and charge for premium content. Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform. Among them are newsletters that openly promote racist ideology. One, called NatSocToday, which has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80 – about £60 – for an annual subscription, though most of its posts are available for free. NatSocToday is understood to be run by a far-right activist based in the US and features a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi party in the 1920s to symbolise white supremacy, as its profile picture. The full name of the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers’ party. One of its recent posts suggests the Jewish race was responsible for the second world war and describes Adolf Hitler …

A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr

A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr

Published by Sam Flores

Founders of The Nerve, from left to right: Lynsey Irvine, Sarah Donaldson, Carole Cadwalladr, Jane Ferguson and Imogen Carter. Picture: The Nerve Dear Washington Post journalists, Solidarity on a terrible day. A craven tech bro has sold you out. The Post is a symbol, both for journalism and America, and for Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis to axe 300 of you in a single day, including those currently reporting in war zones, feels like an augury. But as a journalist who worked for the Guardian for 20 years and who, alongside my colleagues, was binned in a similar fashion less than a year ago, I have important information to impart: do not give up. When our management decided to dump our beloved newspaper, The Observer, we, as a news organisation, fought back: we went on strike. We didn’t win – a board of mainly non-journalists led by a banker saw to that – but we went down fighting. It isn’t over until it’s over. One week after 100 staff and freelance journalists were “banged out” …

Substack Bets On Canada as Next Expansion Market

Substack Bets On Canada as Next Expansion Market

Published by Daniella Wilson

Substack has hired Mark Swierszcz as its new head of partnerships in Canada as the media platform busily expands internationally beyond fast-growing U.S. and UK markets. Swierszcz, a former Google Canada exec, marks Substack’s first major hire in Canada, which has become the platform’s third-largest market worldwide. He told The Hollywood Reporter his focus at Substack will be “on building and deepening relationships with Canadian writers, publishers, creators, and media organizations. That means supporting people across different categories, helping them grow sustainably on Substack.” In Canada, as elsewhere internationally, Substack has grown as content creators jump ship from legacy media companies to sign up paid subscribers for their work and increasingly use audio and video to help do so. And San Francisco-based Substack, initially a newsletter platform that has expanded into other media, including with a newly-launched TV app, already has a Canadian connection. The company was founded by Chris Best, who grew up in suburban Vancouver, and Jairaj Sethi, both of whom graduated from the University of Waterloo in southern Ontario. They then worked …

Peter Geoghegan on rapid growth of investigative newsletter Democracy for Sale

Peter Geoghegan on rapid growth of investigative newsletter Democracy for Sale

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Peter Geoghegan (centre left) and Lucas Amin (centre right) pick up the Specialist Journalism prize for Democracy for Sale at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke Photography Investigative journalism outlet Democracy for Sale has more than tripled revenue and subscribers in the past 12 months, according to founder Peter Geoghegan. The Substack-based newsletter won the Specialist Journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards in December for reports on foreign and “dark” money being funnelled into UK politics. Democracy for Sale is staffed by three former Open Democracy journalists: ex-chief executive and editor-in-chief Geoghegan, Lucas Amin and Jenna Corderoy. Geoghegan told Press Gazette said he hopes to increase the proportion of revenue coming from readers and not be overly reliant on philanthropic support which Geoghegan said “allows us to do work we would struggle to do otherwise” but can prove unstable. “What we’re looking to get to is sustainability.” Democracy for Sale is not paywalled but, like The Guardian, asks for reader support to keep it free for all. It has almost 50,000 …

Bronwyn on Separation, Traitors and New Fashion Series

Bronwyn on Separation, Traitors and New Fashion Series

Published by Daniella Wilson

With the conclusion of season six of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Bronwyn Newport is walking into a new era of her life — literally.  Newport is gearing up to debut her brand-new digital series called WALK-IN this spring, which will see her go inside the closets of iconic guests to explore their most treasured fashion pieces, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively announce. With a slate of guests including Laverne Cox, Christian Siriano and Betsey Johnson, she tells THR the project is “something I’ve been dreaming up for a really long time” that marries her personal knowledge of fashion with her witty, shining personality  “Each episode takes place in someone’s closet, literally. But it’s not just about their clothes,” she says. “I think that a closet tells you everything about who a person is, where they’ve come from, who they are, what they’re becoming.” Alongside the arrival of WALK-IN, Newport is embracing several “new beginning[s]” of her own. The fashion historian shared the news of her separation from husband Todd Bradley during the …

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Published by Sam Flores

The top apps for engagement retention: The Times and The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Mail+ The Daily Mail and The Times have the most engaged app users of any newsbrand in the UK, according to data from Ipsos iris. But in terms of overall popularity, BBC News remains the biggest app in the UK with 15 million users followed by Apple News on 14 million. Google’s smartphone-based aggregation tool Discover may well be the most popular news app in the UK but does not appear in the Ipsos ranking because it is part of the suite of Google products embedded in most mobile devices (not a separate app). Samsung News, the default news app on Samsung devices since April 2025, does not yet appear in Ipsos Iris data. Daily Mail’s newspaper editions app, Mail+, recorded the most average minutes spent per person (758 minutes) followed by The Times and Sunday Times (539 minutes). The Times and The Sunday Times app saw a redesign and relaunch in April 2025. Speaking to Press Gazette in December, …