Who is actually growing in finance publishing. This tracks 912 newsletter on Substack’s public finance leaderboards plus 7 on beehiiv and self-hosted platforms, snapshots them every night, and compares this week against last.
Largest gain in leaderboard position over 7 days
Largest drop in leaderboard position over 7 days
Substack rounds these counts, so only moves of 1,000+ are shown
Moved up a paid-subscriber bracket or earned a bestseller badge
Entered the top 100 in the last 7 days
Follower counts are exact, unlike subscriber counts
Ranked by reactions plus twice restacks — hover a title for the full post
Exact follower counts from public Substack profiles
Started in the last 120 days and already ranking
Organic recommendations only, paid boosts excluded
No new post in 21 days or more
Extracted from post titles in the last 7 days
Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Nov 12, 2026.
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