Brands are becoming media companies.
Instead of buying ads, more brands now build their own newsletters, podcasts, and shows. The good kind, with real audiences. This is a running directory of who's doing it, and the channels they own. I add new ones as I find them, so send through anything I've missed.
The Hustle
Daily business and tech newsletter.
a16z News
a16z's daily email newsletter on tech, culture, and software.
Courier Media
Bimonthly print and digital magazine for modern entrepreneurs, reaching 100k+ readers across 26+ countries.
Product for Engineers
Product for Engineers is a newsletter helping technical people build great products, especially those working at early-stage startups.
Big Desk Energy
beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk's newsletter on building the company. Startup insights, stories, and strategy, read by founders, operators, and investors at top startups and funds.
Chartr
Data-visualization newsletter turning business and society data into simple charts, acquired by Robinhood in December 2023.
Indie Hackers
Community and newsletter for bootstrapped founders that Stripe acquired in 2017 and sold back to its founders in 2023.
Intercom on Product
Intercom's product and design podcast with co-founder Des Traynor and CPO Paul Adams on building in an AI-first world.
Snacks
Daily financial-news newsletter, descended from the MarketSnacks newsletter Robinhood acquired in 2019, now published by Sherwood Media.
The Edge
A monthly newsletter by Kelly Breslin Wright with data-driven insights on sales, scaling, and building teams.