This newsletter for female sports fans reached 1 million subscribers

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Ellen Hyslop and her co-founders launched The Gist in 2017, none of them had worked in media or the sports industry. They were young professionals in financial services who had grown frustrated with a sports media ecosystem that largely catered to men while overlooking millions of potential female fans. What began as a side project built during evenings and Sundays has since grown into a sports media brand with more than 1 million newsletter subscribers, hundreds of thousands of social followers, a podcast, paid community, proprietary games, and partnerships with major advertisers. In a recent interview, Hyslop explained how scrappy marketing helped attract The Gist's first subscribers, why social media became an important source of revenue, and how the company is expanding into a paid community and launching its own games.