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Tolia: 3,500 local publishers produce 50K weekly articles on Nextdoor

Nirav Tolia · Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global · Sep 15, 2025 · at 1:03:50

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia describes the new features and third-party content partnerships included in Nextdoor's platform relaunch.

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“But now with the new Nextdoor, we have 3500 local publishers that are publishing 50,000 articles a week, and they're real journalists.”

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