fwiw, Podnews stats for a typical day (this was Monday):
Total sent: 33,041; total opens 24,160 (73.1% open rate); total unique opens 15,533 (47.0% open rate).
Website: total pageviews (for this day’s edition) 460
Just 460.
Podnews is free, but I’ve designed the front page to funnel new subscribers to the newsletter because it’s those that are monetiseable, not web views.
I was just idly thinking that I should put the web version behind a login for the first few days, to encourage people to sign up (free), but looked at those figures and thought I should be doing something more useful with my time, like perhaps cutting my toenails or having a good scratch.
The web, as you say, might be useful for people who have got their newsletter rejected by email servers or something, and it’s good marketing perhaps, but it doesn’t replace the newsletter.
James Cridland
npub13c…4ck4q
2026-05-10 03:25:28 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…aufy
Author Public Key
npub13cgvw8v4hy7yr7ehc0hs27m4csaly2t9x4w60pjzqe0cfhesvhfqf4ck4qPublished at
2026-05-10 03:25:28 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "0263715585982b53d7e1776e52cd86c04a43421eb35b70d500042c5fae6f9766",
"pubkey": "8e10c71d95b93c41fb37c3ef057b75c43bf22965355da78642065f84df3065d2",
"created_at": 1778383528,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"3f9b45564d2edc09b1f20bdd5cc364d967ab1c68378dae7591599a7efe021881"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://bne.social/@james/116548142947394277",
"web"
],
[
"e",
"ffaf48e2c66748142c749e660a29dd597dd3f44ec8118b9afcaf6228d60a35ac",
"",
"root",
"3f9b45564d2edc09b1f20bdd5cc364d967ab1c68378dae7591599a7efe021881"
],
[
"e",
"28b439ff98cc2fb986b37e8a3db933e7669f81b730119f6aa6afefbc634d926e",
"",
"reply",
"3f9b45564d2edc09b1f20bdd5cc364d967ab1c68378dae7591599a7efe021881"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://bne.social/users/james/statuses/116548142947394277",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://bne.social/users/james/statuses/116548142947394277",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "fwiw, Podnews stats for a typical day (this was Monday):\n\nTotal sent: 33,041; total opens 24,160 (73.1% open rate); total unique opens 15,533 (47.0% open rate).\nWebsite: total pageviews (for this day’s edition) 460\n\nJust 460. \n\nPodnews is free, but I’ve designed the front page to funnel new subscribers to the newsletter because it’s those that are monetiseable, not web views.\n\nI was just idly thinking that I should put the web version behind a login for the first few days, to encourage people to sign up (free), but looked at those figures and thought I should be doing something more useful with my time, like perhaps cutting my toenails or having a good scratch.\n\nThe web, as you say, might be useful for people who have got their newsletter rejected by email servers or something, and it’s good marketing perhaps, but it doesn’t replace the newsletter.",
"sig": "9b55060c10d76c8399c9251057d50e7a642d7e4e47948aa800340cac3be5001009e936463724fe45f3ffd71e9f52ed0dee229742f5ed192c0f592670a264f011"
}