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Major Media Brands Embrace Newsletter Boom in 2025

Major Media Brands Embrace Newsletter Boom in 2025
The year the newsletter business reached a fever pitch · livemint.com

In 2025, many big names in media and business started their own newsletters.

New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal's opinion section all joined Substack.

Even companies like American Eagle and Shopify got into the newsletter game.

On the other hand, Newsweek and Time moved their newsletters to a newer platform called Beehiiv, where they joined other big names like life coach Jay Shetty and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger's health and fitness newsletter, Arnold’s Pump Club, has over 1 million subscribers.

This shows how popular newsletters have become for reaching and engaging with audiences.

Key facts

New York Magazine
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
The New Yorker
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
The Wall Street Journal
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
The Paris Review
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
American Eagle
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
Shopify
Added Substack newsletters in 2025
Newsweek
Moved newsletters to Beehiiv in 2025
Time
Moved newsletters to Beehiiv in 2025
Jay Shetty
Life coach with newsletters on Beehiiv
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Celebrity with 1M+ subscribers on Arnold’s Pump Club newsletter on Beehiiv

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