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Re:Substack is laying off 14% of its staff by rchaud on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:27PM (#31925927)
One big difference. Substack is push, blogs are pull.

Managing the reliable sending of millions of subscriber emails is expensive.

Re:Substack is laying off 14% of its staff by gowld on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:13AM (#31933512)
How much?

Mailchimp charges $12K/year for 150K contacts and 180 emails/contact/year.

(Above that is "call us" pricing.)

At that rate, it is about 10c per contact per year. Substack has 500K paying reader-subscribers, 10-20x that in "total readership", whatever that means, and "millions" of readers (but I believe those are web viewers).

https://backlinko.com/substack-users#how-many-paying-subscri...