Sublime
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This last aspect will undoubtedly grow, in time – and the consumers will migrate. Indeed, while legacy outlets report declines in traffic (driven also by ChatGPT) — Forbes down 52%, CNN down 34%, Fox News down 25% — Substack’s grew 47% year over year in 2025. Revenue follows attention, and attention increasingly resides in the hands of individual... See more
The Fifth Estate
Excellent piece in The Telegraph today on the folly of the UK govt considering handing the life’s work of the UK’s creators to AI companies for nothing.
https://t.co/uvV0XAtWw4
by @AndrewOrlowski https://t.co/PcdO3yR1Sh
A bundle essentially lets a group of newsletter-writers dynamically price-discriminate: most readers are subscribing because one or two components of the bundle are great and the rest are nice-to-have, so Everything’s $20/month sticker price is implicitly charging something like $15 for one newsletter in the bundle, $1 for another, $0 for... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Sovereignty
The essential challenge for publishers now is how to establish sovereignty
Just like countries, publishers have different levels of sovereignty. Countries like the United States and China have a high degree of sovereignty. A small country like, say, Belgium voluntarily gives up large chunks of sovereignty for practical reasons.
For a... See more
The essential challenge for publishers now is how to establish sovereignty
Just like countries, publishers have different levels of sovereignty. Countries like the United States and China have a high degree of sovereignty. A small country like, say, Belgium voluntarily gives up large chunks of sovereignty for practical reasons.
For a... See more