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Aniket Panjwani

Hey! 👋 I'm Aniket Panjwani. I'm an economics PhD and data engineer. I collect original data on newsletters to study newsletter growth, monetization, and industry trends.

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Preview of the newsletter database

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. I've compiled a database categorized by niche of dozens of monetized newsletters.

Featured Articles

  • How to Sell Local Newsletter Ads

    How to Sell Local Newsletter Ads

    Common story: you speed ran your local newsletter to 10k subscribers with Facebook ads, but can't sell an ad in your newsletter. How do you avoid this? I explain why this occurs, and I provide the solution.

    February 5, 2025 Read post →
  • How do You Grow Local Newsletters?

    How do You Grow Local Newsletters?

    Facebook ads! But not *only* Facebook ads. I use the Naptown Scoop as a case study to study the different ways to grow a local newsletter, and evaluate each method's relative importance. Part 2 of a 4 part series on local newsletter economics.

    January 27, 2025 Read post →
  • How do Local Newsletters Make Money?

    How do Local Newsletters Make Money?

    Well... ads of course. But which advertisers? I answer this using the full scraped and parsed data of every Naptown Scoop newsletter. Part 1 of a 4 part series on local newsletter economics.

    December 24, 2024 Read post →