I've been testing Substack for the last couple of months for some personal projects, and I also wanted to keep up with my close friends' and relatives' newsletters. Initially, I found it hard to ...

Jim Acosta, the frequent Donald Trump antagonist who was all but pushed out by CNN earlier this year, may not be the type of person you’d suspect would be a hit on Substack. In fact, when he ...

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says that creators jumping ship from 'mainstream media' like Jim Acosta, Joy Reid and Mehdi Hasan are a big driver of the growth. By Alex Weprin Media ...

Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers ...

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 ...

Substack continues to double down on video amid TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it’s rolling out a scrollable video feed in its app, making it the ...

Substack, the self-publishing platform for independent creators, is preparing for the ban by incorporating a TikTok-style feed onto the app. The company updated the Substack app on Monday ...