Substack\u2019s bet that writers want the platform to provide a community just as much as distribution\u00a0appears to be paying off in 2025.<\/p>\n
Five newsletter creators who moved their operations over to Substack from other platforms such as Patreon and Beehiiv in the past year told Digiday that their following \u2014\u00a0and revenue \u2014 had grown since they made the jump, directly crediting Substack community tools such as co-livestreaming and recommendations for the subscriber boost. Their experiences show that Substack\u2019s ongoing efforts to win over creators by becoming more of a community platform<\/a> and less of a newsletter delivery service are successfully winning over some newsletter writers who value being part of a vibrant creative community.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like all my friends just switched to Substack;\u00a0I saw it happening in front of my eyes,\u201d said Kendall Dickieson<\/a>, who told Digiday that she had her newsletter No Filter \u2014\u00a0which covers social media and creator strategy and has over 3,000 subscribers \u2014 gained 300 subscribers since moving from Beehiiv to Substack in June,\u00a0a noticeably higher retention rate compared to the 75 subscribers she said she would typically gain during two months on Beehiiv.<\/p>\n Continue reading this article on digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Substack\u2019s bet that writers want the platform to provide a community just as much as distribution\u00a0appears to be paying off in 2025. Five newsletter creators who moved their operations over to Substack from other platforms such as Patreon and Beehiiv in the past year told Digiday that their following \u2014\u00a0and revenue \u2014 had grown since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}