Ghost for Publishers: The modern platform for journalism

The platform for independent publishers.

Ghost is an all-in-one platform to run a media business, collect subscribers, send newsletters, publish premium content, and earn recurring revenue.

“Moving to Ghost has proven to be one of the best business decisions we’ve made as an independent media outlet.”
— Joel Warner, The Lever

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A newsletter is just the start. Build your own independent media business.

“It has now been one year since I quit my full-time job to go all in on Tangle. Today, we have 5,500+ paying subscribers. That’s roughly [$850,000] in gross yearly revenue ... it’s the best paying job I’ve ever had.”
— Isaac Saul, Tangle

Create your own editorial brand.

Don't settle for another basic profile that looks just the same as everyone else. Create a beautiful custom publication that stands out from the crowd. Ghost is infinitely customizable, and grows with you.

Premium tiers — 0% fees.

Create custom subscription tiers so you can offer premium content to paying subscribers with both monthly and yearly billing options to fund your work.

Your audience. Your data.

Ghost is an independent platform where creators own all rights and access to 100% of their data. You control what happens.

An editor worth writing in.

Enjoy a calm writing experience where you can sit back and focus on the words, as well as add rich media to your story, from image galleries and videos to podcasts and products.

Team-friendly.

Create separate staff accounts for the whole team, so you can collaborate and add bylines to all your posts. No more shared logins.

Join many of the world’s most forward-thinking journalists, running on Ghost.



Platformer

News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.

https://platformer.news\
→](https://platformer.news/)



404 Media

404 Media is a journalist-founded publication focused on investigative reports about hacking, cybersecurity, AI, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.

https://404media.co\
→](https://404media.co/)



The Lever

Award-winning journalist and Oscar-nominated writer David Sirota conducts investigative journalism about holding people and corporations manipulating the levers of power accountable.

https://levernews.com\
→](https://levernews.com/)



Hearing Things

A new music publication for the web's next generation of audiophiles, from the team that brought you Pitchfork.

https://www.hearingthings.co\
→](https://www.hearingthings.co/)



Bklyner

Brooklyn’s largest local news site, covering the diversity of the Brooklyn neighborhoods since 2008, and the news, issues, events, and businesses that matter to their residents.

https://bklyner.com\
→](https://bklyner.com/)



Tangle

An independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter. Isaac Saul dives deep into the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day.

https://readtangle.com\
→](https://readtangle.com/)

“Ghost is just implausibly good. It takes care of everything you need out the box - email sending, payments (via your own Stripe account, they take 0% fees), website. Everything.”
— Uri Bram, The Browser



Hell World

Luke O’Neil’s 'Welcome To Hell World' is a vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life. A a mix of reporting, essay-writing, memoir, song lyrics, music videos, tweets, and whatever else appeals to him in a given week.

https://welcometohellworld.com\
→](https://welcometohellworld.com/)



The Browser

Former Economist journalist Robert Cottrell created The Browser to curate the very best stories each day, so you'll always have something to read on the train and interesting things to share over dinner.

https://thebrowser.com\
→](https://thebrowser.com/)



Inside

Founded by prolific Silicon Valley investor Jason Calcanis, Inside is a collection of newsletters focused on delivering the highest quality news on tech, venture capital and trends in modern business.

https://inside.com\
→](https://features.inside.com/)



The Long Now

A nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call 'The Long Now'.

https://longnow.org\
→](https://longnow.org/)



SFist

Everything else you need to know about SF & the Bay Area, from news and events to restaurants and local politics.Written by San Franciscans, for San Franciscans.

https://sfist.com\
→](https://sfist.com/)



RANGE

Independent media organization bringing news, analysis and conversations to people who love the Inland Northwest. We’re devoted to thinking about how we can imagine and build a better world than the one we currently live in, and we try to do it all by balancing anger and humor.

https://www.rangemedia.co/\
→](https://www.rangemedia.co/)

“Back in 2017 I wrote a post called Faceless Publishers that posited a need for new kinds of companies to fulfill traditional publisher roles for content creators who were their own brands ... Ghost is as pure an expression of that sentiment as there is.”
— Ben Thompson, Stratechery

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How much could you earn?

Whether you prefer a large audience at a low price point or a small dedicated following at a premium fee, you control the economics.

See how much you could earn with a subscription commerce publication:

500 members
Number of members
$ 10 / month
Price per month
$ 60,000
your annual recurring revenue

How does this work?

Unlike other membership systems which typically take 10-30% of your revenue, Ghost takes no fee at all and instead connects directly to your own Stripe account, so you receive the money - not us. You own the software and you own the billing account, so there's no middleman between you and your customers. Stripe takes a ~2.9% processing fee, and all other revenue is yours to keep.

Building a subscription business is challenging in lots of ways. Our focus is on making the billing side as easy as possible - so you can keep your focus on your customers.

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Last week, 10,603 brand new publications got started with Ghost.

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