Last week at Fraunces Tavern, New York City’s oldest bar, we hosted writer drinks for finance, tech, and business bestsellers. Thanks to all who turned out!

On Wednesday night in New York City, Substack hosted a reading for delia’s Substack column, Hate Read. Hate Read started as a pop-up newsletter within her Substack, Deez Links, where Delia asked a dozen of her favorite writers from the internet rant and review about stuff

More people are coming to Substack in search of direct connections with their readers, listeners, and followers. Here, writers, podcasters, and creators can build trusted relationships, distinct from parasocial fans and low-intent browsers found in abundance elsewhere online.

We

Today we’re releasing several new Chat features to help grow your subscriber community—including new ways to paywall your entire Chat, and improved navigation and usability. Read on on.substack.com/p/introducing-…

Substack Politics and Substack’s co-founder Hamish McKenzie hosted a New Media Party on Saturday night in Washington DC, celebrating independent journalists and creators building media empires on Substack. Thanks to all who came along!

Whether it’s the sound of frogs in Porto or birds in Orkney, a late-night piano serenade or an intimate poetry reading, videos in Notes offer new, surprising ways to connect with each other on Substack. Read more: on.substack.com/p/video-on-sub…

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Bestselling writers, creators, podcasters and videomakers got together at an east London bookstore this week, hosted by Substack’s head of writer partnerships for U.K. and Europe, Farrah Storr.
Journalists, editors, authors, food writers, scientists, and fashion stylists

In recent weeks, we’ve shipped a lot of new software, including major advancements for podcasters, significant Notes and search improvements, further theme and layout customization, and a handful of long-standing writer feature requests.

Read the latest Substack Bulletin for a

Today, we’re making two important additions to Notes.

You can:
- Post videos directly to Notes in the Substack app and on the web
- Embed notes on external web pages

Find out more:
on.substack.com/p/video-and-em…