# How Newsletters Survived Technology - The Atlantic

<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/internet-newsletters-dave-pell/620664/>

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## What Jamie wrote

A bit of a love letter to the newsletter from [Dave Pell](https://twitter.com/davepell) who writes one of my favorite daily newsletters [NextDraft](https://nextdraft.com).

> Cut to 2020, when the 14 million customers of a single email platform called Mailchimp sent out 333,635,013,035 newsletters that, among other things, drove more than $64 billion in revenue.

He highlights the key reasons that he finds newsletters to be durable in ways that many other products are not. I did find this call out about your Inbox very funny.

> Sure, people complain about having too much email. But compared with everything else online, your inbox is the Walden Pond of the internet.

I do think there is a "home field" advantage that we as a reader have in our Inbox. And the relationship that can be built with a newsletter is definitely more personal than many other means.

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