Morning Brew just bought another newsletter. Who's next?

About this episode

Join the Letterland Brief daily newsletter to keep on top of all the headlines and intelligence: letterlandlive.com This week on Letterland LIVE we're joined by Jenna Movsowitz, co-founder of Express Checkout, which was just acquired by Morning Brew, and Nathan May, founder of The Feed. Jenna and co-founder Nate Rosen started Express Checkout as a weekly CPG newsletter nearly four years ago. Now Morning Brew has bought it in an all-cash deal, its second acquisition this year. We ask the question every operator wants answered: is newsletter M&A heating up? Nathan spends $2M a month on Meta ads across his clients. He breaks down what newsletter operators get wrong about paid growth, then stays on to do some pro bono consulting work. We'll also get into: - Piers Morgan's Uncensored goes paid with 4 newsletters on beehiiv - Morning Brew president Devin Emery steps down - A CEO sued a Substack writer and lost. Here's where the $240K goes - Steal This: Vanessa Van Edwards' one-question trick for getting replies - Google killed its domain reputation score, so build your own - Emily Sundberg on why group texts could be the next newsletter - Consulting Hat: "My newsletter doesn't bring