Two recent Spotlight guests have spent a decade building newsletters sustained by voluntary contributions for no additional content. We wrote a playbook based on their work.
Matt Kiser shares how a 100-day writing challenge became a 9-year, $227k/year media business — with no ads or paywall.
How to figure out your skills as a host, what type of event your audience might want to attend, and what you, your audience, and sponsors should expect from different events.
How Vin Matano built a $200k brand deal business on 54k LinkedIn followers, then launched an agency that did $2.5M in its first full year.
The workforce rebuilding American media has no healthcare, no recourse, and no protection. One bill wants to change that.
Words of Mouth newsletter creator Rachel Meade Smith on building an audience through integrity, learning to be a better businessperson, and writing a book to celebrate 10 years.
What I've learned recording 100 episodes of The Creator Spotlight Podcast
In advance of their launch, we spoke to Caper, a new food-world media startup with excellent pedigree — folks from Puck, Eater, New York, Vanity Fair, artnet, and more.
Journalistic objectivity was built on layers of editorial filtration. As those layers thin, a new model — more personal, more transparent, and less insulated — is taking shape.
Notes from over a decade working in newsletters, a podcast that made $70,000 in one year, a growing local newsletter business, and three years selling beehiiv.
What it is will shock you
We spoke to Grant Beene, or @grantbeans, whose short-form sketch comedy videos represent the pinnacle of a genre born of Snapchat and Vine before maturing on TikTok.
