Overview
Substack hosts newsletters, podcasts and video on one platform, costing nothing to publish and taking 10% of subscription revenue once a writer charges. Content marketers use it to launch a paid newsletter without stitching together email, payments and hosting, and to reach readers through its built-in recommendation network.
Key Features
- ✓Free to publish; 10% of paid subscription revenue plus Stripe fees
- ✓AI transcription, captions and text-to-speech narration
- ✓Newsletter, podcast hosting, native video and live streaming in one place
- ✓Recommendation network, Notes feed and leaderboards for discovery
- ✓Official read-only MCP server for Bestseller publications
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