The Blog Herald

I'll admit it: calling myself a private person while posting something new every week has never quite added up on paper. Private people are supposed to keep things close. They don't usually volunteer the contents of a rough week to an audience they've nev

Kane Parsons was 13 when arthritis started keeping him from walking some days, and instead of sitting out, he turned to a laptop and started teaching himself visual-effects software. By 16 he'd uploaded a short called "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" to a

Ask most people who follow self-publishing what generative AI has done to Amazon's Kindle store, and you'll get some version of the same answer: the platform is being flooded with machine-written novels, and whoever is producing them is quietly cashing in

When TikTok rewrote its creator payout formula in March 2024, it buried a specific admission in the fine print: the new system would reward "content that is clear, and engaging, rather than favoring accounts with an excessive amount of videos." That sente

In August 2020, Substack's own numbers put its total paid subscriber base at just over 100,000, spread across every newsletter on the platform combined. That was the entire pool of paying readers, for every writer, on every topic, anywhere on the site. Fi

Eb Gargano has run the same anonymous income survey of working bloggers every January through April since 2022, which means she is one of the few people tracking blogging money who can compare this year's respondents against last year's instead of relying

In the first four months of 2026, 68.01% of Google searches ended with no click to any website at all, according to an analysis of Similarweb panel data published by independent researcher Rand Fishkin's firm SparkToro. That's up from 60.45% in 2024 and 4

In July 2026, Beehiiv gave its newsletter creators a feature that has nothing to do with writing: a place for subscribers to talk to each other, built into each newsletter's own space on the platform, with paid access a creator can gate behind a subscript

In April 2026, The Ankler, Janice Min's Hollywood-trade newsletter turned 18-person media company, moved its core operation off Substack and onto Passport, a paywall platform run by Automattic and media analyst Ben Thompson. At the time of the move, The A

Virginia's social media law was in effect for less than sixty days. Platforms had spent months before that building age-gates and usage trackers tuned to a one-hour daily cap for anyone under 16, rolled all of it out on schedule, and then had to explain t