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Edison Mail wants to help better manage your newsletter subscriptions
Let statistics dictate which lists you unsubscribe from
Sifting through heaps of unread emails is everyone’s nightmare, and although email providers try their best, oftentimes their categorization and spam filtering utilities leave something to be desired. One of the best email apps for Android, Edison Mail, hopes to make spam management easier, and is now adding two new spam prevention features — just ahead of the big holiday season ad barrage.
Substack, the newsletter start-up that took the world by storm, has been around since 2017, offering a platform for writers covering finance, politics, art, travel, and everything in between. After recently reaching one million paid subscribers from its website alone, the company is finally looking to expand into mobile with a dedicated app that makes it easier to find your newsletters.
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Google's Area 120 team jumps on the latest media trend in its new app
You know, since everyone has a newsletter now
Blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels — it seems like there's always some new kind of media to "pivot" to, especially if you're trying to avoid being left out of the crowd. Newsletters have been the "next big thing" for a while now, with countless reporters and online personalities switching to paid email subscriptions to further their support. If you've been dreaming of writing your own newsletter, Google's latest experiment might be just what you need.
Twitter is working on a subscription service, hoping to get people hooked with incentives such as an Undo Send button. In its latest attempt to spice up this service Twitter acquired Scroll, which lets readers support their favorite publishers (including us) while blocking ads. This development also sunsets a personalized daily news service called Nuzzel, which is owned by Scroll.
We've all got our own ways of getting the news. There are plenty of sources out there (including us), and lots of different ways to consume it — from video to audio to this: the written word. And if you prefer to have that news delivered rather than seeking it out, you should check out the Android Police newsletter.
A couple years ago, we had planned out an amazing promotional campaign for our site that involved sharing links to our best posts of the week on community bulletin boards in senior centers, town halls, public libraries, and local supermarkets all across the world. But we didn't have the budget for that, so we decided to do a newsletter instead.