50 Trending Newsletter Businesses [2023]

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

50 Trending Newsletter Businesses [2023]

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Did you know that in the past five years, there has been more than a 50% increase in the number of people who read newsletters?

Newsletters are one of the few things you can use to market yourself as a trusted expert. A well-written newsletter can educate your subscribers and build connections with them.

Email newsletters are a great way to connect with customers and potential customers. It’s a newsletter’s job to inform, persuade, and sell to your audience.

Looking for some examples of a newsletter?

Interested in case studies of a successful newsletter? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. MDPI

MDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996.

Website traffic: 11.5M/month
Business rank: #2.48K

Check out their full website ➜

2. Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Website traffic: 11.7M/month
Business rank: #4.57K

Check out their full website ➜

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4. MarketBeat

Read the latest stock market and financial news on MarketBeat. Access in-depth stock research tools and get real-time analyst ratings, dividend information, earnings results, financials, headlines, insider trades and options data for any stock.

Estimated revenue: $2.13M/month
Website traffic: 8.25M/month
Business rank: #6.37K

Check out their full website ➜

5. Roam

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

Website traffic: 2.65M/month
Business rank: #7K

Check out their full website ➜

6. BetterStudio

Publisher theme is the best WordPress theme for Newspaper, magazine and blog sites with 58 pre-made demos and free premium plugins.

Website traffic: 280K/month
Business rank: #8.25K

Check out their full website ➜

7. Scoop.it

Scoop.it enables professionals and businesses to research and publish content through its content curation tool.

Website traffic: 1.62M/month
Business rank: #9.21K

Check out their full website ➜

8. The Week

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

Website traffic: 5.26M/month
Business rank: #11.4K

Check out their full website ➜

9. Chartbeat

Improve audience engagement, inform editorial decisions, and increase readership. Chartbeat delivers real-time analytics, content intelligence, and transformative newsroom tools for digital media and publishing companies around the world.

Website traffic: 640K/month
Business rank: #12.7K

Check out their full website ➜

10. Hacker Noon

How hackers start their afternoons.

Website traffic: 3.2M/month
Business rank: #14.9K

Check out their full website ➜

11. SmartBrief

SmartBrief brings you the most important business news. Our editors curate top stories from more than 10,000 credible sources & summarize them for you.

Business rank: #22.5K

Check out their full website ➜

12. The Register: Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Enterprise technology news for IT decision-makers and professionals

Website traffic: 2.93M/month
Business rank: #27K

Check out their full website ➜

13. YUDU

Website traffic: 380K/month
Business rank: #28.4K

Check out their full website ➜

14. Capcom

Website traffic: 2.37M/month
Business rank: #32.2K

Check out their full website ➜

15. elink.io

elink is an all-in-one content curation tool that helps you save and edit links from anywhere on the web and turn them into beautiful email newsletters, website content, single web pages, social media bio links, and much more! Generate content at the speed of light with elink.io

Website traffic: 440K/month
Business rank: #37.8K

Check out their full website ➜

16. Institutional Investor

Website traffic: 550K/month
Business rank: #37.8K

Check out their full website ➜

17. Astronomy.com

Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy events, cosmology, planets, galaxies, asteroids, astrophotography, the Big Bang, black holes, comets, constellations, eclipses, exoplanets, nebulae, meteors, quasars, observing, telescopes, NASA, Hubble, space missions, stargazing, and more

Website traffic: 1.73M/month
Business rank: #39.8K

Check out their full website ➜

18. The Scientist Magazine

The Scientist Magazine Life Science News

Website traffic: 1.15M/month
Business rank: #40.3K

Check out their full website ➜

19. Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College is a selective, top-ranked college in Michigan, known for the classical liberal arts and for its independence from government funding.

Website traffic: 1.33M/month
Business rank: #50.6K

Check out their full website ➜

20. GEN

Get the latest news and information on genetic engineering and biotechnology including analysis, features, webinars, podcasts, and more.

Website traffic: 550K/month
Business rank: #50.7K

Check out their full website ➜

21. Biotech Industry, Biotech News, Biotechnology Articles — FierceBiotech

Read the latest biotechnology articles on biotech industry leaders, emerging biotech companies, FDA decisions, VC deals, and other biotech industry news.

Website traffic: 750K/month
Business rank: #53K

Check out their full website ➜

22. PublishForProsperity.com

Business rank: #54.9K

Check out their full website ➜

The Newsletter Plugin is a complete tool to manage newsletters, straight from your Wordpress dashboard.

Business rank: #55.7K

Check out their full website ➜

24. TrendWatching

Our trends, insights and tools enable 100,000+ future-focused professionals in 180+ countries to deliver meaningful innovations.

Business rank: #58.9K

Check out their full website ➜

25. Newsweaver

Poppulo (formerly Newsweaver) has two dedicated product brand offerings for Internal Communications and Email Marketing.

Business rank: #65.4K

Check out their full website ➜

26. Value Line

Website traffic: 400K/month
Business rank: #72.3K

Check out their full website ➜

27. What’s New in Publishing

Discover digital publishing news including: advertising technology, managing audiences, optimizing programmatic revenue and reaching monetization goals.

Business rank: #73K

Check out their full website ➜

28. IrishCentral.com

Read and share the latest Irish news, including politics, community, business, travel, Irish roots, culture, and more.

Business rank: #77.4K

Check out their full website ➜

29. Subscription Genius

Subscription management and mail list management system. Fulfillment for magazine publishers and newspaper publishers that need circulation software.

Business rank: #95.1K

Check out their full website ➜

30. Photonics.com: Optics, Lasers, Imaging & Fiber Information Resource

Photonics news, research and product information. Includes online editions of Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, EuroPhotonics, Buyers' Guide, Dictionary

Website traffic: 220K/month
Business rank: #106K

Check out their full website ➜

31. NIS America, Inc.

Website traffic: 350K/month
Business rank: #114K

Check out their full website ➜

32. Guideposts

Connecting people with uplifting stories of comfort and hope, prayer, and tools for faithful, positive living.

Website traffic: 700K/month
Business rank: #114K

Check out their full website ➜

33. TidBITS

Website traffic: 280K/month
Business rank: #120K

Check out their full website ➜

34. TradeWins Publishing

TradeWins Publishing Corporation provides high-quality education and innovative tools for the serious investor or those who aspire to do so. Our goal is to help customers become profitable traders by: working with only the most successful authors and instructors, learning unique and well-researched trading systems and methods, providing powerful, innovative trading tools

Website traffic: 200K/month
Business rank: #129K

Check out their full website ➜

35. Spatial Computing for Enterprise

Step aside VR and smartphone AR. Magic Leap 1 is a wearable spatial computer that brings the physical and digital worlds together as one.

Website traffic: 130K/month
Business rank: #130K

Check out their full website ➜

36. E&E News -- The essential news for energy & environment professionals

Website traffic: 420K/month
Business rank: #147K

Check out their full website ➜

37. 3D Issue

Convert PDFs to flipbooks, create news apps, or centralize your content in a hub. The 3D Issue product suite will help reach your audience on any device.

Website traffic: 230K/month
Business rank: #151K

Check out their full website ➜

38. The Jacobsen

We set the benchmark for a wide range of commodities trading. Expert in data gathering, analysis, and forecasting for the markets you care about.

Business rank: #159K

Check out their full website ➜

39. Crisis Magazine

A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity

Website traffic: 520K/month
Business rank: #164K

Check out their full website ➜

40. www.infopackets.com

Website traffic: 200K/month
Business rank: #189K

Check out their full website ➜

41. Shadow Mountain Publishing

Shadow Mountain is a general trade publisher best known for our children’s fantasy series including the bestselling Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull and the upcoming sequel series, Dragonwatch.

Business rank: #192K

Check out their full website ➜

42. Contrarian Thinking

Contrarian Thinking, weekly cashflowing investment ideas to build your bank account and increase your income streams.

Estimated revenue: $6K/month
Business rank: #560

Check out their full website ➜

43. BowTied Opossum

Get smarter about all things digital. Affiliate marketing, e-commerce, analytics, and digital marketing.

Start and grow your first online business today. Click to read WiFi Money, by BowTied Opossum, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Estimated revenue: $3K/month
Business rank: #572

Check out their full website ➜

44. Money Talk

Come here for the highs and lows of personal finance

Estimated revenue: $100/month
Business rank: #2.99K

Check out their full website ➜

45. Stratechery

Estimated revenue: $16.7K/month
Business rank: #53.8K

Check out their full website ➜

Reviewing, analyzing, and discussing Kansas City Chiefs film with a side of fan commentary. Let's go beyond the box score. Click to read The Chief in the North Newsletter, by Seth Keysor, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Estimated revenue: $4K/month
Business rank: #572

Check out their full website ➜

47. Yolo Intel

Travel intel and inspiration. Click to read Yolo Intel, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.

Estimated revenue: $20K/month
Business rank: #572

Check out their full website ➜

48. Cup of Coffee by Craig Calcaterra

Everything you need to know about baseball before your first cup of coffee. Click to read Cup of Coffee by Craig Calcaterra, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.

Estimated revenue: $18.4K/month
Business rank: #572

Check out their full website ➜

49. Failory

Failory is a community visited by startup founders every day to read articles about entrepreneurship, interviews with failed and successful founders, insightful postmortems and our monthly reports.

Estimated revenue: $1K/month
Website traffic: 190K/month
Business rank: #57.7K

Check out their full website ➜

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