This article was originally published on Not a Newsletter: A Monthly Guide to Sending Better Emails. Casey Newton’s newsletter was born from a simple question: Was there a better way to report on the impact of social networks on modern life? Newton, The Verge’s Silicon Valley editor, had been reporting…

The latest release of the WordPress.com plug-in Jetpack contains a new block that allows newsletter authors to easily embed a Revue subscription form in their WordPress.com sites. The Revue profile page is a popular feature of our editorial newsletter service. Authors love how it combines a beautiful archive with an…

This article was originally published on Not a Newsletter: A Monthly Guide to Sending Better Emails. I didn’t think it was possible for a newsletter — at least one with any sort of scale — to have a unique open rate above 65%. Getting 1 in 3 subscribers to open…

This article was originally published on Not a Newsletter: A Monthly Guide to Sending Better Emails. I first met in May, and he told me a little about his new newsletter. Pit Gottschalk had created a daily soccer email covering all things German soccer, and it was up to 2,500…

Revue has helped many authors and publishers launch new newsletter products. But until now, we never launched our own newsletter. It’s a little strange we never did, but we simply never got around to it. Until six weeks ago when we started “The week in newsletters”, Revue’s weekly update for…

From time to time we do a little research about newsletters at Revue. This time we were interested in the composition of the teams producing newsletters for publishers. Who are the people writing and editing newsletters in newsrooms? What are their job titles and who do they report to? Many…

Revue’s note: This post is part of a series on secrets by newsletter experts. It was written by Arjen van der Horst. Arjen is USA correspondent for Dutch public broadcaster NOS and TV news program Nieuwsuur. For the NOS he writes the Trump Weekly newsletter. If there was something that…

Revue’s note: This post is part of a series on secrets by newsletter experts. It was written by Jerry Vermanen. Jerry is a data journalist from The Netherlands. His daily work is at Pointer, a data journalism website and tv programme by Dutch public broadcaster KRO-NCRV. He is also author…

Revue’s note: This post is part of a series on secrets by newsletter experts. It was written by Paul Jarvis. Paul is a designer who likes writing (or vice versa). He wrote a book called Company of One and co-founded a privacy-focused analytics platform called Fathom Analytics. …