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📢 NEW on Substack: Podcast Sponsorships On Substack, podcasters building communities that extend beyond the podcast feed, and using paid subscriptions to support their work. Now, we're building sponsorships as another way podcasters on Substack can support their ambitious work.

✅ An ad-free community for your biggest fans The most enduring podcasts are built on community. Substack Chat lets you bring your listeners into conversation, in multi-threaded conversations. You decide what's free, and what's paywalled exclusively for your paying subscribers.

📢 NEW on Substack: Podcast Sponsorships On Substack, podcasters building communities that extend beyond the podcast feed, and using paid subscriptions to support their work. Now, we're building sponsorships as another way podcasters on Substack can support their ambitious work.

✅ Dynamic sponsorships across your podcast catalog Rather than being forced to record sponsorships directly into episodes, podcasters will be able to run campaigns and update ads across their back catalog without re-editing episodes, and IAB Tech Lab certification for data

"Sometimes it’s going to be about historically unprecedented power-grab of the Silicon Valley overlords, and sometimes it’s going to be about Sydney Sweeney’s rack. Look, it is what it is."

Powered by Goalhanger, a new-generation media brand with a slate of top shows, Always On will give audiences more ways to spend time with one of Britain's funniest and fiercest minds.

"Sometimes it’s going to be about historically unprecedented power-grab of the Silicon Valley overlords, and sometimes it’s going to be about Sydney Sweeney’s rack. Look, it is what it is."

Marina Hyde's weekly columns at the Guardian for more than two decades made her one of the best-loved columnists in the UK. And her hit podcast, The Rest is Entertainment, reaches millions of listeners each month.

From boos at commencement speeches to protests at town meetings, AI is getting shouted down. Energy journalist Robert Bryce dives into what's behind opposition to data centers, and shares his free database that tracks the current “cultural revolt against the ‘lanyard class’”

“Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions. Our fun is their gravy train.” Music historian Ted Gioia on how we lost the ability to have a good time without paying a penny

Software designer and writer Celine Nguyen on taste: its historical roots from William Morris to René Girard to Susan Sontag, and how to develop it today

Why does our memory slip after age 50? Cardiologist and bestselling author Eric Topol explains a recent "big shake-up" in our understanding of how the brain ages, and walks through what's really going on in the middle-aged mind (link in replies)

"As a national security expert, mother and aspiring grandmother, the answer to me is obvious: we must act now to protect humanity. To do any less is to accede to potential collective suicide."

Emma Corrin, who plays Elizabeth Bennet in Netflix UK's new series Pride and Prejudice: "Like most people, I fell in love with Elizabeth when I first read Pride and Prejudice in my teens, and have spent the years since navigating situations wondering… well, what would Lizzy do?"

Author and podcaster Shea Serrano on how he went from Section 8 housing and teaching middle school to building a creative career and cult following across hundreds of thousands of followers, starting from a single cold call - link in replies

"Feminism was never a finished doctrine to Steinem. It was a living, self-questioning movement—a method of seeing connections that established power would rather keep hidden."

Substack is the home for podcasts 🗣️ For podcasters, we offer easy-to-use hosting, automated distribution to Spotify and Apple Podcasts, industry-standard analytics, and discovery via our network so your audience grows faster.

You also get community features like comments, chat, and going live, so you can interact directly with your fans. Getting started is free, and we only make money when you do.