Topic

Which developer and AI newsletters take sponsorships?

Every newsletter here publishes on Substack, clears the developer topic gate and the listing bar, and its subscriber count is the one Substack itself publishes.

All 24 creators are on Substack. 31 brands are named across their own sponsorship posts.

Audience figures from platform APIs. How we check the data Figures last read Sep 4, 2026.

Who are the largest developer newsletter creators?

Ranked on the measured figure each platform's own API returned, largest first. Nothing here is estimated.

  1. SemiAnalysis 315K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
  2. The System Design Newsletter 251K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
  3. Product Growth 240K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
  4. Deep Learning Weekly 224K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
  5. Latent.Space 198K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026

Which brands sponsor developer newsletter creators?

Every brand below was named as a sponsor by one of these creators, in their own post. Open a brand to read the sentence it was read from.

Every creator in this list

SemiAnalysis Substack @semianalysis 5d ago 2 to check Infra / DevOps 315Kfree subscribers The System Design Newsletter Substack @systemdesignone 4d ago 2 to check Infra / DevOps +6 Takes sponsors 251Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Product Growth Substack @aakashgupta 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM +7 Takes sponsors 240Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Deep Learning Weekly Substack @deeplearningweekly 11d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 224Kfree subscribers Latent.Space Substack @swyx US 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 198Kfree subscribers Engineering Leadership Substack @gregorojstersek 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM +2 Takes sponsors 196Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors TheSequence Substack @thesequence 4d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 169Kfree subscribers Linas's Newsletter Substack @linas 3d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 156Kfree subscribers AlgoMaster Newsletter Substack @algomaster 12d ago Backend Takes sponsors 152Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Import AI Substack @importai US 6d ago AI / LLM 139Kfree subscribers Software Design: Tidy First? Substack @tidyfirst 5d ago 1 to check 126Kfree subscribers Opinion AI Substack @opinionai 3d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 124Kfree subscribers SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter Substack @seattledataguy 11d ago Data / DB Takes sponsors 114Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors AI in Healthcare Substack @aiinhealthcare 6d ago 1 to check Infra / DevOps 97Kfree subscribers Claude Code Masterclass Substack @claudecodemasterclass 13d ago AI / LLM 79Kfree subscribers Technically Substack @technically 5d ago 72Kfree subscribers Simon Willison’s Newsletter Substack @simonw 6d ago AI / LLM 69Kfree subscribers FounderCoHo Substack @foundercoho 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 67Kfree subscribers AI Agents Simplified Substack @aiagentssimplified 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM +3 Takes sponsors 57Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Jam with AI Substack @jamwithai 3d ago AI / LLM Takes sponsors 56Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors A Life Engineered Substack @alifeengineered 4d ago 43Kfree subscribers ByteByteGo Newsletter Substack @bytebytego 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors no figure yet Takes sponsors Data Engineering Weekly Substack @dataengineeringweekly 6d ago 1 to check no figure yet Resilient Cyber Substack @resilientcyber 10d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 22Kfree subscribers

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