# The home for great blogging.

Bloggers come to Substack to do their best writing and build thriving subscription businesses.

> “Moving to Substack was a boon to my writing productivity. I don’t have to think about anything except writing and that is how I like it.”  
> – Kevin Rapp, [Full of Krapp](https://fullofkrapp.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

## A blog – but with email.

Substack’s simple system lets you publish to the web and email, so you can find new readers and always reach your existing audience.

### Subscription publishing made simple.

Choose which posts you publish as free or only for paid subscribers. Zero tech knowledge required. We take care of everything except the hard part (the writing itself).

Switching to Substack takes less than 5 minutes.

[Import your content and mailing lists](https://substack.com/switch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers) from Beehiiv, WordPress, Medium, Tumblr, MailChimp, TinyLetter, Ghost, and even some custom web pages.

> “As long as I've been on the internet, I feel like I've never had [this] kind of one-to-one relationship with someone who is reading my work.”  
> – Hunter Harris, [Hung Up](https://hunterharris.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

## Great bloggers are on Substack.

From food and faith to politics and economics, Substack is the new home for the world's best bloggers.

[Alicia Kennedy](https://www.aliciakennedy.news/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers) has been covering Puerto Rico’s culinary scene and foodways since 2015. As of 2021, more than 10,000 people have signed up to read her Substack.

[Matt Yglesias](https://www.slowboring.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers), co-founder of Vox, started Slow Boring on Substack in 2020. Slow Boring counts more than 9,000 paying subscribers, generating more than $70,000 a month.

[Ijeoma Oluo](https://ijeomaoluo.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers) is a former blogger and the author of #1 New York Times Bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. On Substack, she shares writing tips and a behind-the-scenes look at her process.

[Jenny Rosenstrach](https://dinneralovestory.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers) has written Dinner: A Love Story for more than a decade. She moved her blog and its 1,500-post archive to Substack in January 2021.

[Courtney Martin](https://courtney.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers) had a weekly column at the On Being Project, and transferred her readers to Substack in 2019. She was “amazed at the response" from readers eager to fund her.

[Judd Legum](https://popular.info/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers), founder of political blog ThinkProgress, launched Popular Information on Substack in July 2018. Popular Information now has more than 100,000 signups.

> “In 2020, Substack became the standard of the independent journalism industry. Not to move would be to capitulate to deliberate obsolescence.”  
> – David Warsh, [Economic Principals](https://davidwarsh.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

## Turn your blog into a media business on Substack.

[Judd Legum of Popular Information shares tips on how to grow a Substack publication](https://on.substack.com/p/a-growth-masterclass-with-judd-legum/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

[Courtney Martin shares her insights on launching a paid newsletter on Substack](https://on.substack.com/p/going-paid-the-examined-family/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

[Gino Sorcinelli tells his story of becoming a music journalist](https://on.substack.com/p/how-my-substack-newsletter-helped/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)

> “I've never seen such a Cambrian explosion of good writing!” – Noah Smith, [Noahpinion](https://noahpinion.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cohort_pages&utm_content=bloggers)