Facebook is planning to build its own newsletter tools, according to The New York Times, on Friday.The facebook initiative will offer more services to independent writers and journalists as part of the Facebook Journalism Project.
According to the report, the tools could have features similar to what other newsletter services have. That means they could include features writers could use to curate emails, to manage paid subscriptions and to help them grow their followers on Facebook.
On other hand, the newsletter industry has been growing steadily in the past few years, but it boomed last year when a lot of writers and journalists started their own after COVID-19 lockdowns left a lot of people across industries jobless.
Substack, founded in 2017, is one of the major players. It boasts 250,000 paying subscribers across its network and a list of top 10 publishers bringing in a total of $7 million in annual revenue as of September 2020. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that massive companies like Face app want in on the action. Also, Twitter chose to purchase a known newsletter service called Revue instead of developing its own.
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