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🔥 Top 15 marketing newsletters
We've curated the best newsletters for social media marketers!
Joshua Parkinson
March 16, 2025
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Want to level up your marketing game without spending hours scrolling LinkedIn and searching Google?
You need to subscribe to the best marketing newsletters!
We’ve rounded up our Top 15 below.
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Best for: Social Media News
Subscribers: ~82,000
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Our weekly digest offers concise updates on social media news, segmented by platform. It also shares tools, tutorials, case studies and more.
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Best for: Actionable Social Media Insights
Subscribers: ~70,000
Weekly newsletter by Jack Appleby that shares theoretical social strategies, content breakdowns and case studies for social media marketers.
While TWISM covers the news, Future Social goes beyond and provides actionable insights that brands can leverage (while also maintaining a fun conversational tone).
Best for: General Marketing News Updates
Subscribers: ~30,000
This daily marketing newsletter by the experts at Carney delivers a handpicked list of social media stories and ad campaigns.
As you’d expect from a digital marketing newsletter, The Daily Carnage shares trending stories. But they also experiment with the sections sharing games, trivia, and polls, which keeps the engagement high.
Best for: Creators and Influencers
Subscribers: ~5,000
This weekly newsletter curates the most important trends, news and updates about influencer marketing, the creator economy and social media.
Lindsey Gamble provides a dual viewpoint on the creator economy for readers — as both a creator and marketer. This makes their deep dives into industry trends and stories that much more nuanced.
Best for: Outside-the-Box Thinking
Subscribers: ~92,000
This bi-weekly newsletter shares the top strategies and tactics used by fast-growing startups.
Demand Curve turns the learnings from their agency work into written growth content. The content then gets validated by their community of marketers and enriched with real-world examples and data. Once the tactics are proven, they’re shared in the newsletter:
Best for: Sparking Ideas
Subscribers: ~32,000
This weekly newsletter by Tom Orbach shares unconventional, battle-tested, practical marketing ideas.
Tom’s unique marketing niche (unconventional marketing) takes frameworks from behavioral economics and psychology and applies them to marketing. Super interesting!
7. Science Says
Best for: Understanding the Psychology of Marketing
Subscribers: ~31,000
This newsletter explores the psychological principles behind consumer behavior, offering insights into why certain marketing tactics work. ​
The tips shared are based on proven evidence. No opinions, no biased case studies, just facts and numbers.
8. Why We Buy
Best for: Positioning
Subscribers: ~63,000
Whether you’re a founder, marketer, creator or copywriter, understanding buyer psychology holds the key to growth.
While the newsletter often focuses on cognitive biases, it also provides actionable insights on using cognitive biases to improve your marketing.
Best for: Quick Tactics
Subscribers: ~130,000
This weekly newsletter by Harry Dry shares 3 marketing examples, 2 copywriting tips, and 1 favorite tweet each week.
Harry uses visual cues to break concepts into easy-to-understand chunks. Fun read!
10. Stacked Marketer
Best for: General News and Trends
Subscribers: ~60,000
Offers a daily roundup of the latest marketing news and trends, keeping you informed on what's happening across the industry.
Each email summarizes the most relevant digital marketing news stories in a 7 minute read.
Best for: Learning About Newsletters
Subscribers: ~40,000
A weekly newsletter by Chenell Basilio wherein she reverse-engineers how top creators GROW and MONETIZE their newsletters.
What you’ll love is that Chenell doesn’t just talk about the top newsletter playbooks but also shares actionable insights on how to implement them.
Best for: AI Marketing News
Subscribers: ~1,000
This LinkedIn newsletter by Fergus Dyer-Smith shares the most important updates in AI marketing. The focus is on AI tools that marketers should be testing and using.
13. Core Updates
Best for: SEO News
Subscribers: ~9,000
A weekly newsletter by Mark Williams-Cook that focuses on SEO news and tips for digital marketers.
Each email reads like a listicle that contains bullet points of SEO news stories and tips.
14. ExitFive
Best for: B2B marketing
Subscribers: ~27,000
This go-to B2B marketing newsletter is sent weekly by the Exit Five team.
They focus on a single topic per issue (a case study, a trend breakdown, etc.) along with job listings and event reminders.
Best for: Ad Creatives
Subscribers: Not disclosed 🤷‍♂️
Curated by e-commerce strategist Janky Patel, this newsletter shares high-converting ad creative inspiration and ideas.
Janky shares 3 paid social ad creative examples plus a concise description of each ad, why it works, and actionable tactics for your ad team.
That’s a wrap!
We hope you’ll subscribe to these newsletters!
Reading them regularly will keep you a step ahead on the latest trends and strategies in marketing!
​Note: The information in this email is based on this blog post by Post Planner:
