How The Dispatch reached 35,000 paying subscribers in three years

This week's guest on the Subscription Publishing Show is Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Dispatch, a subscription publication covering politics, policy and culture from a center-right but non-partisan perspective. Since launching in 2019 with three founders and self-professed humble ambitions, The Dispatch has since grown to reach 35,000 paying members and a full-time staff of 30.  In this episode, Steve and I discuss why The Dispatch left Substack and moved its site to Memberful and WordPress, the power of high-quality journalism for driving subscriber and audience growth, and why keeping things simple when it comes to pricing and product has proved an effective strategy for the publication so far. Listen to the full episode above, and via Apple Po