This week there's some interesting news in the email world as Apple unveiled a new privacy protection feature that blocks the pixels used for open rates. Nathan Barry shares some insights on the change and what Apple could do for email creators.

Plus featured newsletters on sports, art, marketing, media in Africa, and an email-based soap opera!

Articles & Tools

How Apple’s email privacy protection hurts creators — nathanbarry.com

Apple new email privacy features announced at WWDC will make open rates even less reliable.

Passport — stratechery.com

Passport is an interesting open-source project by Ben Thompson of Stratechery that could be a great platform for online creators.

How to start a newsletter when you have 0 subscribers — newsletterglue.com

"Don't worry about which email service to use – just start" and other actionable pieces of advice for new newsletter writers.

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Featured Newsletters

Scarlet Ink — inboxreads.co

A newsletter about management, leadership, and interviewing. Written by Dave Anderson, an experienced ex-Amazon Director and Bar Raiser, and previous leader at Facebook and Bezos Academy.

Sportify It — inboxreads.co

Content and lifestyle for female sports fans.

The Content Odyssey — inboxreads.co

Get discussions on one tried-and-tested B2B content experiment.

Osmosis — inboxreads.co

Osmosis pulls the most useful insights from books on entrepreneurship, growth, and marketing and turns them into actionable summaries you can use right away in your business and life.

Paint On My Shorts — inboxreads.co

Chris Lovie-Tyler's monthly newsletter on art, faith, and learning to paint.

The Links — inboxreads.co

The Links is a soap opera, in an email: serialised fiction you can read in 3 minutes, 3 times a week. It’s a little light entertainment for your inbox!

Communiqué — inboxreads.co

Communiqué is a publication analysing the media in Africa. It takes narrow and broad views of the industry, drawing connections between all its moving parts, and examining how it influences and is influenced by the economy, culture, and technology.

The Big Con — inboxreads.co

The Big Con shows how marketing and propaganda intersect to help understand the tactics that build credibility and inspire behavior quickly.

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