Good morning! How is it the end of March already?! Today's Media Roundup is brought to you by Esther.

How The Newsette founder Daniella Pierson turned a newsletter for women into a multi-million dollar company — www.cnbc.com

With poor grades and no connections in the industry, Daniella Pierson knew she wouldn't be able to break into magazine media. Instead, she started her own newsletter in 2015 to practice her writing.

Six years later, Newsette reaches 500,000 subscribers and has already brought in more than $6 million in revenue for 2021. Last year, while many companies were forced to shrink, Newsette continued growing, bringing in more than $1 million in September alone.

Yes it's another story about a newsletter, but there are also some gems hidden in this about building a media brand from scratch, and more importantly, keeping it going when times get tough.

“The glue that keeps customers engaged”: How publishers are using data to fuel subscription growth — whatsnewinpublishing.com

WNIP rounds up some insights from FIPP's Innovation in Media 2021 World Report about how publishers tweaked and tuned their subscription strategies throughout 2020.

The Digiday Privacy Glossary: What it all really means — digiday.com

If you (like us) are struggling to keep up with FLoCs, SKADNetworks and the CCPA, this glossary from Digiday has you covered. One to bookmark!

How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history — www.niemanlab.org

A nice case study of how health and life sciences publication Stat has evolved over the past year with the opportunity presented by Covid coverage.

Today's throwback:

Black Ballad Co-Founder and CEO Tobi Oredein on growing a membership-driven media business — voices.media

One of my all-time favourites. Tobi Oredein talks about founding Black Ballad, why they decided to launch memberships ahead of the curve in 2016, and their aim to grow coverage outside London.

Transcripts Archives — voices.media

We have a growing transcripts archive which is being kept up to date by the lovely Rachael Davies. If you'd like to read any of our interviews instead of/as well as listening to them, they each have a transcript linked from the main episode page, or find it in our archive here.