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Morning Brew's newsletter reached over two million readers by August 2020

Josh Kaplan · Future of The Founder's Journal · Aug 19, 2020 · at 15:03

Josh Kaplan advocates cross-promoting Alex Lieberman's Founder's Journal podcast within the main Morning Brew daily newsletter.

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“Like if that, that is that the hypothesis we can test it and then by accident get the show in front of two point, whatever million readers.”

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The claim, plainly

As of August 2020, Morning Brew's newsletter reached over 2 million readers.

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Assessment

Multiple independent and official sources confirm that Morning Brew's newsletter exceeded 2 million readers/subscribers prior to August 2020. Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief announced the flagship newsletter surpassed 2 million subscribers in late March/early April 2020 (reported by Talking Biz News on April 13, 2020), which was further corroborated by trade coverage in June 2020. By October 2020, at the time of the acquisition by Axel Springer / Insider Inc., the subscriber count had grown to 2.5 million.

On April 13, 2020, Talking Biz News reported that Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief announced the flagship newsletter had crossed 2 million subscribers.
June 2020 reporting by MediaPost and a PRWeb press release confirmed Morning Brew surpassed 2 million subscribers in spring 2020.
Axel Springer's October 2020 acquisition announcement confirmed Morning Brew's subscriber base reached 2.5 million.

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[1] digiday.com [2] morningbrew.com [3] talkingbiznews.com [4] mediapost.com [5] prweb.com [6] axelspringer.com [7] axios.com

Morning Brew subscribers August 2020 Business Insider acquisition "April 13, 2020" "Morning Brew" "2 million" Morning Brew 2 million readers August 2020 Morning Brew newsletter 2 million subscribers 2020 "Morning Brew" "2 million subscribers" "2020"

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