Some Substack creators are using direct messaging to build communities and retain paying subscribers. The publishing platform has rolled out chat features to help creators connect with their audience.

Substack is helping to boost UK novelists’ discoverability and sales, The Bookseller has heard. Seven years from the publishing platform’s launch, it is helping many writers "break through the noise” ...

Every week since August 2021, Australian author Bri Lee has released a regular weekly Substack newsletter, News & Reviews, to thousands of paid and unpaid subscribers. The “news” offers commentary on ...

Subscribe now using your favorite service: In this bonus episode, Trade Secrets is all about content -- and why travel advisors should get theirs off social media and into an email newsletter. Kayla ...

The six-year-old self-publishing platform is still a magnet for writers, but WordPress and Beehiiv are vying for market share. After last year’s retrenchment, “we’re just coming out of defensive mode, ...

After posting almost 200 videos, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and racking up millions of views, Carla Lalli Music is quitting YouTube. Substack is her new focus. Music is a cookbook ...

Substack has industry-leading newsletter tools and a platform that independent writers flock to, but its recent content moderation missteps could prove costly. In late November, the Atlantic reported ...

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie and writer Casey Lewis break down the best practices for building an engaged — and paying — audience. Substack writers collectively have over five million paid ...