Substack
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Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack is headquartered in San Francisco. Wikipedia
Website: substack.com
Latest news
- Apr 12: Your paid-for Substack podcast is now available to listeners using Spotify, the companies have announced. It’s part of Spotify Open Access, which brings premium podcast content from across the web to Spotify users.
- Apr 10: Podcasters are now earning more than $100 million in annual revenue on Substack the company says, a figure that has more than doubled in the past year. Of the 250 highest-revenue publications on Substack, more than half publish audio and video.
- Dec 11, 2023: Substack now has a video episodes feature. They’ve not called it a video podcasts feature, because the video doesn’t make it to the RSS feed, thus you’ll not be able to watch it in Pocket Casts or Apple Podcasts; and you can only watch in the iOS Substack app.
- Aug 15, 2023: For a time yesterday, Substack was blocking popular podcast app Overcast, and the Podcast Index, from accessing shows hosted on the platform. The shows are hosted using the Cloudflare CDN - "Do not host podcast feeds behind Cloudflare", says Overcast's developer Marco Arment, before explaining what settings to use if you do.
- Jun 23, 2023: Voltage has launched two new high-profile podcasts on Substack. "Two of the biggest obstacles facing independent podcasters are audience engagement and monetization," suggests JE Petersen, "and Substack is fantastic at both things".
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