Prior to becoming a member of The Daily Upside, Divney most lately served because the CRO for the journey, finance, and auto sub-verticals at People Inc. Starns, who joins from 6AM City, was its vice chairman of income operations.
The development push is primarily centered on the corporate’s B2B choices. Its flagship e-newsletter, The Daily Upside, is aimed toward retail buyers and reaches an viewers of roughly 1 million.Â
Its B2B arm, the Advisor Upside vertical, caters extra particularly to monetary advisors.Â
Its e-newsletter product, Advisor Upside, has greater than 100,000 subscribers and consists of two sub-verticals: ETF Upside, which has about 30,000 subscribers, and Retirement Upside, which has about 15,000. In complete, the Advisor group now has six full-time editorial staffers.
In the approaching months, the corporate plans to develop even additional. This fall, the writer is launching a CFO-focused publication, after its viewers information indicated a excessive readership amongst accountants and different monetary operators. To construct out the vertical, the corporate plans to repeat its customary process: rent a number one journalist within the house, then construct protection round them.Â
The writer launched a weekly podcast for the Advisor vertical two months in the past, which features a video part whose clips it’s distributing on LinkedIn. It can be pushing into video and occasions extra broadly, experimenting with digital webinars because it explores shifting into in-person occasions if the format proves profitable.
Taken collectively, the growth marks the expansion of yet one more extremely focused e-newsletter writer, additional proof that the majority of sustainable development within the digital media sector is coming from light-weight, business-oriented operations.Â
The Daily Upside has additionally employed a talent-centric method, constructing its verticals round extremely seen journalists who’re specialists of their material. While the primary part helps attract advertisers, the second aspect attracts in audiences, who reply extra enthusiastically to trusted, particular person creators.
The enterprise remains to be comparatively small, and a change of management is all the time a fragile second. But the writer has constructed a strong basis for development because it transitions into its subsequent chapter.
Talking Heds
Politico Prose (EXCLUSIVE): Next month, Politico is debuting 4 new power and atmosphere newsletters on the identical day, Aug. 31, alongside a retooled Morning Energy anchoring the lineup. The funding within the roster, which incorporates Surge, State Power, Power Moves, and Morning Environment, is, partially, a response to the elevated demand from Politico Pro subscribers for such content material: From July 2025 to June 2026, Pro Energy noticed readership greater than double, growing 113%, based on a spokesperson. With the Iran War spiking oil costs, information facilities guzzling electrical energy, and world warming upending historic local weather patterns, the Axel Springer outlet is betting that curiosity in power coverage and local weather economics will solely enhance within the coming years.
Google Goners: Earlier this month, I reported on the fascinating, if as soon as unimaginable, pattern of publishers getting ready to choose out of Google Search. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal confirmed a lot of my reporting, talking with executives from USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People Inc., and Reuters who have been weighing their choices. The report additionally flagged that Reddit, which signed a $60 million-a-year deal in 2024 that allowed Google to make use of its materials to coach its AI fashions, can be reconsidering whether or not it desires to resume that settlement. No single writer has as a lot leverage in these negotiations as Reddit does, which might make its involvement notable. Although Reddit differs in vital methods from most web sites, primarily in that it depends on user-generated content material and does obtain some compensation from Google, the platform is the most recent web site to appreciate that the present state of search is untenable for nearly everybody concerned. Could Wikipedia be subsequent?