But if they click the link to claim the gift from a desktop, they’re directed to a pop-up that says, “Accept this gift in the Substack app.” Users can then do so by scanning a QR code or by ...

Substack has reached more than 5 million paid subscriptions for the first time, the company said this week. The updated audience total comes just four months after the digital journalism and ...

When Mr. McKenzie founded Substack with his colleagues Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi in 2017, their first recruit to the platform was Bill Bishop, whose free newsletter, Sinocism, had 30,000 ...