The State of beehiiv for PR: What 6,251 beehiiv Newsletters Tell PR Professionals
Research
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Findings
- Featured Research · Find Independent Writers database
- We analyzed the 6,251 beehiiv newsletters in Featured's Find Independent Writers database on October 20, 2026, measuring how active they are, how they can be reached, what they cover, and how large their audiences are.
- 47.7% of beehiiv newsletters published 12 or more times in the last 90 days, roughly weekly or more.
- Most beehiiv writers publish on a schedule you can plan a pitch around. 81.6% sent an issue in the last 30 days, and the median newsletter published 11 times in 90 days.
- Key points
- 6,251 beehiiv newsletters are in Featured's Find Independent Writers database, and 93.3% publish in English.81.6% published in the last 30 days and 97.9% in the last 90 days. 47.7% published 12 or more times in 90 days, roughly weekly or more, and 15.5% published 36 or more times, three a week or more.85.7% link at least one social account and 70.8% link two or more. Only 6.4% publish a contact email, and 15.3% a contact page.38.0% are recommended by at least one other beehiiv newsletter.42.9% publish on a custom domain, 16.1% offer paid subscriptions, 7.4% also run a podcast, and 11.2% list more than one author.Of the 470 newsletters that display a subscriber count, the median is 17,000. 294 show 10,000 or more, 86 show 100,000 or more, and 6 show 1,000,000 or more.Business (27.0%), technology (16.8%) and artificial intelligence (14.6%) are the largest categories, followed by marketing, community, news and finance at about 10% each.
- Key definitions
- beehiiv newsletter — A newsletter published on beehiiv, on a beehiiv.com subdomain or a custom domain, and held in Featured's Find Independent Writers database.
- Published in the last 30 or 90 days — Based on the most recent post visible on the newsletter's public site at the time of analysis.
- Posts in the last 90 days — The number of posts published to the newsletter's public site in the 90 days before the analysis.
- Social accounts — Accounts the newsletter or its author links from its public site or profile.
- Contact email — An email address the newsletter publishes on its site. Featured does not verify these addresses.
- Recommended by — The number of other beehiiv newsletters that list this newsletter in their recommendations.
- Subscriber count — The count the newsletter displays on its own site, recorded as shown. beehiiv does not publish counts for newsletters that do not display one.
- Categories — Category tags assigned to the newsletter. A newsletter can carry several.
- Audience evidence — Featured's rating of whether a newsletter shows direct evidence of its audience size, such as a displayed subscriber count or recommendations from other newsletters.
- Reachability: most beehiiv writers are reached through social profiles
- There is no beehiiv inbox to pitch. beehiiv's Community feature, launched in July 2026, lets members of a writer's community message each other, and only if the writer has set one up. Just 6.4% of beehiiv newsletters publish a contact email and 15.3% a contact page, so the way in is usually a social profile or the newsletter's website.
- 85.7% link at least one social account, and 70.8% link two or more. LinkedIn (57.0%) is nearly level with Instagram (57.9%), about twice the rate in The State of Substack for PR, where 27.9% of publications linked LinkedIn.
- Share of all 6,251 beehiiv newsletters. A newsletter can appear on more than one row.
- How often beehiiv newsletters publish
- A pitch about this week's news needs a newsletter that publishes this week. 81.6% of beehiiv newsletters published in the last 30 days and 97.9% in the last 90. The median newsletter published 11 times in 90 days, with 77 posts on its site in total.
- 81.6% published in the last 30 days
- 97.9% published in the last 90 days
- 47.7% published 12 or more times in 90 days, roughly weekly or more
- 15.5% published 36 or more times in 90 days, three a week or more
- What beehiiv newsletters cover
- Business is the biggest beat on beehiiv: 27.0% of tagged newsletters carry it. Technology (16.8%) and artificial intelligence (14.6%) come next, and marketing, community, news and finance each sit near 10%.
- The shares use the 5,834 newsletters (93.3%) that carry at least one category tag as the base. A newsletter can carry several categories, so shares add to more than 100%.
- Share of 5,834 category-tagged beehiiv newsletters, top 20 categories. Smaller categories with at least 100 newsletters each include productivity, money, art, food and drink, travel, politics, economy, real estate, books, music, social media, venture capital, mental health, cryptocurrency, fitness, family, podcasts, design, mindfulness, science, and cities.
- Who shows a subscriber count, and how big it is
- Most beehiiv newsletters don't show how many people read them. 470 (7.5%) display a subscriber count on their own site, and Featured records it as shown, without checking it. Among those 470, the median is 17,000.
- The largest displayed counts belong to AI, business and finance newsletters: The Rundown AI (2,000,000), Superhuman AI (1,500,000), and TLDR AI, The Daily Rip by Stocktwits and National Real Estate Brief (1,000,000 each).
- 17,000 median displayed subscriber count, across 470 newsletters
- 294 display 10,000 or more
- 86 display 100,000 or more
- 6 display 1,000,000 or more
- beehiiv newsletters by displayed subscriber count (cumulative thresholds). Base: the 470 newsletters that display a count.
- 1,304 — One in five has direct evidence of its audience
- When a newsletter shows no count, Featured's audience score looks at how often it publishes, how many other newsletters recommend it, and the writer's social following. 1,304 newsletters (20.9%) are rated as having direct audience evidence.
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Source: press.featured.com/research/the-state-of-beehiiv-for-pr/
Cite as: Featured / Brett Farmiloe, “The State of beehiiv for PR: What 6,251 beehiiv Newsletters Tell PR Professionals”, November 10, 2026.