Newsletter

Creating a newsletter

1. Go to your publication homepage.
2. Click Manage publication.
3. Click Newsletter.
4. Enter the name of your newsletter. It can be no less than 3 characters, no more than 50 characters. The name of your newsletter will be the name that appears in readers’ email inbox.
5. Enter the description of your newsletter. It can be no less than 10 characters, no more than 200 characters. The description will appear on your newsletter sign up page so readers can get a sense of what your newsletter is about.
6. If you want to have an avatar for your newsletter, upload a square image.
7. If you want to promote your newsletter, check the relevant options.
8. Click the Create button.

When you click Create, you will be taken to your Newsletter landing page where readers can sign up to receive your newsletter. You can promote this URL on your social networks, share with your friends and family, or ask writers you work with to forward this page to friends to grow your audience. This URL is dynamic and will show sign-up buttons for anyone who is not an editor of the publication.

To start writing your Newsletter, click the Write a newsletter button on your Newsletter landing page. 

Note: You can edit the name and description fields at any time.

Editing your newsletter settings

Once you’ve created a Newsletter, you can edit it and change your promotion settings at any point.

1. Go to your publication homepage.
2. Click Manage publication.
3. Click Newsletter.
4. Click More options.
5. Click Settings to go to your Newsletter settings.

Here you can edit the name, description, and change the promotion toggles. Once you have made changes, click Save to retain them or click Cancel to discard the changes.

Note: If you update the name of the newsletter, the URL for your newsletter landing page will change, and you will need to update any off-platform links.

Sending a newsletter

Once you’ve created your Newsletter, you’re ready to start emailing your subscribers. 

You must be an editor of the publication to send newsletters.

1. Go to your newsletter landing page.
2. Click Write a newsletter button.

In the editor, you can:

• Preview the email by clicking Email me a preview
• Send an email to your subscribers (note, this cannot be “undone” once sent)

Please note: If you set an email address in your Contact info for your publication, this email address will be visible as the reply-to email address in your newsletter emails and subscribers will be able to reply and reach you at this email address.

Where does my newsletter email show up?

Previously, letters did not feed into the Medium network. But newsletters do! So you don't have to create a duplicate version to make it discoverable on Medium.

Newsletters show up:

• In the inboxes of your newsletter’s subscribers and publication staff
• On your newsletter’s sign up page
• On the newsletter sender’s profile page
• In Medium’s Digest email recommendations (depending on user interests)
• In Medium’s homepage recommendations (depending on user interests)
• If you apply a topic to the newsletter, it can show up within the “Stories in a tag” section on your publication’s homepage

Newsletter emails don’t show up within the “Latest stories” section of a publication’s homepage.

Managing newsletter emails

All of your draft and scheduled scheduled newsletters can be found on your publication’s Stories page.

1. Go to your publication homepage.
2. Click Manage publication.
3. Click Stories.

Newsletter statistics

Your newsletter statistics show you how many subscribers you have and how well your newsletters are resonating with them.

1. Go to your newsletter landing page.
2. Click More options.
3. Click Stats to go to your Newsletter stats.

Subscribers

Unique active subscribers — Active users are users who have opened an email from you or any other Medium email or who have visited the website or app within the past 45 days and are opted-in to receive emails

Sent

Unique active subscribers who were sent an email

Opened

Unique subscribers who opened an email

Clicked

Unique subscribers who clicked any link in an email

Grow your newsletter audience

Readers can subscribe to your newsletter separately from following your publication. Readers can subscribe to your newsletter on the landing page or via the promotions, if you’ve elected to use this feature.

To navigate to your newsletter sign-up page, click on Newsletter in the Manage publication menu on your publication homepage.

Deleting a newsletter

At this time, it's not possible to delete a newsletter. You can, however, turn off newsletter promotions on your publication pages so that no new users can sign-up.

1. Go to your newsletter landing page.
2. Click More options and choose Settings from the menu.
3. Under Promotion, make sure to uncheck all options.