Topic
Which developer and AI newsletters take sponsorships?
Every newsletter here clears the developer topic gate and the listing bar. A Substack count is the one Substack itself publishes; a newsletter on its own domain shows the count printed on its own page, labelled self-reported.
- 29 creators
- 34 sponsor brands
- Figures read Sep 4, 2026
29 creators are listed here: 25 on Substack and 4 by email on their own domain. 34 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. This ranking uses no estimates; the prices in the list below are estimates, not quotes.
Which brands sponsor developer newsletter creators?
- Unblocked The System Design Newsletter, Engineering Leadership, AlgoMaster Newsletter
- AWS The System Design Newsletter, Jam with AI
- Adobe Ben's Bites
- Amplitude Product Growth
- Ariso Product Growth
- Arize Product Growth
- Atono Engineering Leadership
+ 27 more brands
- Auth0 The System Design Newsletter
- Blitzy The System Design Newsletter
- Bolt.new Product Growth
- CircleCI AI Agents Simplified
- CodeRabbit The System Design Newsletter
- Customer.io Product Growth
- EZ Texting AI Agents Simplified
- Figma The System Design Newsletter
- G2i Engineering Leadership
- Gravitee Ben's Bites
- Greybeam SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter
- Honeycomb Engineering Leadership
- HubSpot AI Agents Simplified
- Hyperagent Product Growth
- MarketBeat AI Agents Simplified
- Matic ByteByteGo Newsletter
- Name.com Ben's Bites
- Novu Connect AI Agents Simplified
- Omnigraph The System Design Newsletter
- Option Pit AI Agents Simplified
- Pendo Product Growth
- Product Faculty Product Growth
- SerpApi Product Growth
- Sonar Engineering Leadership
- Superblocks The System Design Newsletter
- Svix The System Design Newsletter
- Viktor Product Growth
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
01 SemiAnalysis Infra / DevOps @semianalysis posted 5d ago 2 to check no figure 315K $3.1K to $23.6K 02 The System Design Newsletter Infra / DevOps Takes sponsors @systemdesignone posted 4d ago Sponsors: Unblocked +8 2 to check no figure 251K $2.5K to $18.8K 03 Product Growth AI / LLM Takes sponsors @aakashgupta posted 4d ago Sponsors: Product Faculty +9 1 to check no figure 240K $2.4K to $18K 04 Deep Learning Weekly AI / LLM @deeplearningweekly posted 11d ago 1 to check no figure 224K $2.3K to $16.8K 05 Latent.Space AI / LLM @swyx US posted 3d ago 1 to check no figure 198K $2K to $14.9K 06 Engineering Leadership AI / LLM Takes sponsors @gregorojstersek posted 4d ago Sponsors: Unblocked +4 1 to check no figure 196K $1.9K to $14.7K 07 Ben's Bites AI / LLM Takes sponsors @bensbites posted 3d ago Sponsors: Gravitee +2 1 to check no figure 171K $1.7K to $12.8K 08 TheSequence AI / LLM @thesequence posted 4d ago 2 to check no figure 169K $1.7K to $12.7K 09 Linas's Newsletter AI / LLM @linas posted 3d ago 2 to check no figure 156K $1.6K to $11.7K 10 AlgoMaster Newsletter Backend Takes sponsors @algomaster posted 12d ago Sponsor: Unblocked no figure 152K $1.5K to $11.4K 11 Import AI AI / LLM @importai US posted 6d ago no figure 139K $1.4K to $10.4K 12 Software Design: Tidy First? @tidyfirst posted 5d ago 1 to check no figure 126K $1.3K to $9.4K 13 Opinion AI AI / LLM @opinionai posted 3d ago 2 to check no figure 124K $1.3K to $9.3K 14 SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter Data / DB Takes sponsors @seattledataguy posted 11d ago Sponsor: Greybeam no figure 114K $1.1K to $8.6K 15 AI in Healthcare Infra / DevOps @aiinhealthcare posted 6d ago 1 to check no figure 97K $970 to $7.3K 16 Claude Code Masterclass AI / LLM @claudecodemasterclass posted 13d ago no figure 79K $790 to $6K 17 Technically @technically posted 5d ago no figure 72K $720 to $5.4K 18 Simon Willison’s Newsletter AI / LLM @simonw posted 6d ago no figure 69K $690 to $5.2K 19 FounderCoHo AI / LLM @foundercoho posted 4d ago 1 to check no figure 67K $670 to $5K 20 AI Agents Simplified AI / LLM Takes sponsors @aiagentssimplified posted 3d ago Sponsors: HubSpot +5 1 to check no figure 57K $570 to $4.3K 21 Jam with AI AI / LLM Takes sponsors @jamwithai posted 3d ago Sponsor: AWS no figure 56K $560 to $4.2K 22 A Life Engineered @alifeengineered posted 4d ago no figure 43K $430 to $3.3K 23 Data Engineering Weekly @dataengineeringweekly posted 6d ago 1 to check no figure 24 ByteByteGo Newsletter AI / LLM Takes sponsors @bytebytego posted 3d ago Sponsor: Matic 1 to check no figure 25 The Rundown AI AI / LLM Takes sponsors @therundown posted 3d ago 1 to check no figure 1.7M self-reported $17K to $127.5K 26 Superhuman AI AI / LLM Takes sponsors @superhuman posted 2d ago 1 to check no figure 1.5M self-reported $15K to $112.5K 27 TLDR AI AI / LLM Likely open @tldr-ai posted 3d ago 1 to check no figure 1.1M self-reported $11K to $82.5K 28 Pointer Takes sponsors @pointer posted 6d ago 1 to check no figure 55K self-reported $550 to $4.2K 29 Resilient Cyber AI / LLM @resilientcyber posted 10d ago 1 to check no figure 22K $220 to $1.6K
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