The startup has also raised $6 million in funding from individual investors (none of it comes from venture capital firms). And it’s partnering with podcast company Sounder, with plans to participate in Google’s Play Me The News program for Google Home, where it will offer short-form audio news stories. On top of its paying subscribers, Hayes said The Dispatch is reaching about 60,000 people with its newsletters. You need to be serving some of your best, most substantive work in front of the paywall, so that you get people into the top of the funnel.” Apparently, one piece of advice that has been helpful is, “Don’t hide your good stuff behind the paywall. Hayes said it’s been largely “an ad hoc process” of figuring what should and shouldn’t go behind the paywall.
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At launch, it offered a lifetime membership ($1,500), then added an annual membership ($100) when it launched its full site in January, and finally introduced a paywall and a monthly membership ($10) less than a month ago. “What Substack was doing fit pretty much exactly with what we wanted to build - a company with an editorial-first philosophy.”Īs part of that strategy, The Dispatch has gradually been rolling out its membership program and paywall. “We’re not trying to monetize eyeballs,” he said.
In order to do that, Hayes said that building a subscription business with newsletter-focused digital media platform Substack (the Substack team also handles all of The Dispatch’s technical and product needs) was key. But rather than just recycling the same stories about, say, Bernie Sanders or the COVID-19 pandemic, The Dispatch aims to “take a breath” and try to approach important news in a fresh way. The startup says it’s now approaching 10,000 paying subscribers, adding up to more than $1 million in annualized revenue.Įditor and CEO Stephen Hayes (former editor in chief of the now-defunct Weekly Standard) told me that his vision for The Dispatch was to “slow down the news cycle.” That doesn’t mean ignoring the day’s headlines.
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