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Photojojo Hits 100,000 Subscribers

102,000, to be more exact.

New subscriber growth at Photojojo continues to accelerate. It’s taken us 1 year and 3 months to get to this point, and we’ve spent $0 on advertising and marketing. It’s all thanks to really enthusiastic readers who blog about us, tell their friends about us, and help spread the word. Thank you!

As an aside, when Daily Candy was acquired by Bob Pittman, they were about 3 years in and had 100,000 subscribers to their daily email list (we’re twice a week.)

Another aside: Two friends have started their own email newsletters in the past couple months, and I’m a fan of both: Nicole Davis’ startup Brooklyn Based for all your Brooklyn-dwelling friends, and Scott Hurff’s excellent Fuego for the classy men in your life.

Posted on 3 July '07 by Amit Gupta, under Business, Marketing, Photojojo.

4 Comments to “Photojojo Hits 100,000 Subscribers”

#1 Posted by Scott Hurff (04.07.07 at 14:46 )

102,000!

Incredible and congrats. It’s been pretty exciting to see Photojojo grow. You should celebrate with some fireworks tonight :) (make sure to take photos)

Excited to see what’s next!

And I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your recognition of Fuego. You know that Photojojo was an inspiration for it — I’m hoping it can match halfway the success you’ve seen.

#2 Posted by Nick Gray (04.07.07 at 15:05 )

Congrats! This is really, really awesome. And that’s a LOT of emails to send out!

#3 Posted by Abhay Kumar (14.07.07 at 19:54 )

Pardon the shameless self-promotion but this would be more fun as a swivel graph.

#4 Posted by Amit Gupta (14.07.07 at 21:24 )

Hey Abhay,

I was really excited when you posted that, as I’d been looking for a web 2.0 graphing tool when I made that chart, and couldn’t find anything so I used Keynote.

But I just tried Swivel and found the process really confusing. Worst, after I finally figured out how to get data in, I was hit with registration at the very last step, before I could actually see my chart. Seemed sneaky. I left.

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