GHOST vs SUBSTACK - which newsletter is better? | Substack vs Ghost newsletter platform 

Thanks Zulie! I love that you give your lede at the beginning of your videos instead of trying to string us along. And that is why I watch your videos!

You actualy convinced me to go for substack at the very end because they dont apply as much censorship.

Thank you for your helpful advice! I’m currently trying to decide between both and you’ve helped me along this process, much appreciated 🙏✨

I paused your video at time stamp 09:30 and read the statement shown on the screen. Your observation is correct in stating that they seldom want to enforce the objectives in the first two sentences. Their resistance showing up in the 3rd sentence states, "it does not include attacks on ideas.... or for other reasons." And that is the legal weasel sentence that allows the posting of material that makes many people uncomfortable on their platform. There was a time when public decorum controlled our freedom of speech used in front of a person, "I hate you because you are ugly," Your freedom of speech was allowed when you were hiding from view. The internet of today allows us to hide from view most of the time.

I'm just here for the paintbrush microphone.

Super good review of Substack and Ghost. Could you review the Biihive and Conver kit for the building newsletter?

Hi Zulie, Thank you. Good advice. I’ve heard of Substack, but I never heard of Ghost until now. I think Substack may be a better alternative for me under my current circumstances. One of the downsides to both services is that many of us (including me) are getting too many newsletters via email. It’s hard to keep up. I have to be very selective in what I’m reading.

Thanks for this informative explanation. Supporting someone as noxious as Matt Y. certainly makes me think twice about Substack.

TLDR: Substack and Ghost are both newsletter platforms, but Ghost offers more comprehensive features and customization options, while Substack has been criticized for allowing hate speech under the guise of free speech. 00:00 💌 Ghost is preferred for creators earning more, while Substack is recommended for those earning less, with Substack being described as revolutionary for its simplicity. 01:42 📧 Substack allows for easy setup, free use, and a recommendation mechanism for discovering new newsletters. 02:27 💌 Ghost offers more customization and features, including gated content and paid subscriptions, but comes with a cost, while Substack is beginner-friendly, free to use, and doesn't take a cut of earnings. 04:50 📰 Substack is the best option for beginners worried about commitment, while Ghost is better for more tech-savvy users with comprehensive help documentation and quick support. 05:55 👻 Ghost offers more customization options, subscription-based membership, and control over website appearance, making it a better platform for committed content creators compared to Substack. 07:10 📰 Substack Pro funds creators without transparency, while Substack pretends to be just a platform but actively solicits content, making it a publisher. 09:15 📰 Substack allows hate speech under the guise of free speech, leading to lack of content moderation and fired an editor for being associated with a writer who left for a different platform. 11:10 📰 Substack is a great tool with slightly questionable leadership, while Ghost is a cool but more complicated tool with more customization potential.

Hi Zulie! Thanks for great video. It seems that Substack has built an ecosystem that would help discoverability and new subs. How would Ghost compete with that? Other question is could I have both or would formatting on both platforms take too much time? Thanks!

Thank you for sharing. Do you have a Ghost vs Beehiiv comparison? That would be good.

Zulie! I’m soooo glad I found you ! Great video I’ll be looking at more your channel too. I was pondering this exact thing and I’m going with Ghost for sure. I do think free speech is important and I can’t believe they say they are for it and then tried to shut down a viable opine they decided they didn’t like omg. That alone is reason enough for me. Thank you so much for sharing that. I’m nervecited to start my new page lol. Wish me luck! Can’t wait to watch more. ☺️🦋

I'd be interested in a comparison of Ghost and WordPress. I first approached Ghost as a blogging platform, and not for its marketing/mailing side. With that in mind, it might be a good website replacement for people who do light mail marketing but a lot of blogging. For those use cases, WordPress and its vast plugin ecosystem feels very overkill. Thanks for the video!

Thank you! This video is excellent and helped me a lot!

Thank you Zulie about the detailed information. Love your videos and explanations.

I’m curious to learn how either substack or ghost I reheated with having your primary shop website. If you’ve already for a website of some kind is it easy to integrate the two together?

Another great video! Great info and really engaging communication style. 👏👏

how can I move from substack to ghost without losing my content and just keep working?

I just started a substack newsletter. Working on free articles and then soon paid.

Thanks Zulie! Love your content because it is SUPER helpful - could you do a video on how and where to get copyright-free stock photos for your blog and newsletters and other options for pictures.

Great summary, Zulie.

Switching from substack, yep it works limited time and their policies will force you out.

Thank you very much: I will now look for your video about Ghost and Medium. ... A question: Does Ghost let you manage 2 (or more) newsletters on different topics ?

That was not the misinformation, Zulie. The data is in and continues to come in.

I see bringing on that Matt guy as a marketing tactic. The way you talked about it didn't make it seem underhanded or disingenuous in any way so I'll have to disagree with you there. Coming from a business perspective and mindset, bringing on other people to use their pertussis/ service is all marketing strategy to attract more users to the platform. I don't believe it was anything nefarious whatsoever. Businesses do it ALL the time. Every time you see a celebrity on a commercial (for a product they don't own themselves) they've been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions, to attract a specific audience, that celebrity's fans, to the product to convert to paying customers. For the company, it's an investment for more revenue. If Substack paid this guy a quarter of a million dollars, they must have thought they could make that money back and ultimately profit within that year. The fact that they're investing in themselves in order to grow actually makes those who are business- minded feel good about going with Substack simply because the owners are active in the company and its not an afterthought. I think I'll go with Substack 😊 Thanks for the video ❤

Hey, Zulie! My question doesn't really have to do with newsletters, but I would like to know if yout think publishing the same post on Medium in two different languages would be a good strategy to grow? I intend to use English as my main language on Medium, but I'm a native Portuguese speaker and I know the English Proficiency rate in Brazil is quite low... Do you think that would be an efficient approach to grow my audience?

Nice video. Thank you.

Medium has become less than 'Mediocre' considering the quality of content. Majority content there is pure clickbaity and BS. I therefore stopped writing there. Even Medium publishing houses are allowing writers to publish articles titled 'How you can make 2M dollars every month'.

So which one should new user start writing on? Ghost or Substack?

how i change my user id of substack.

I don’t agree, hate speech is free speech, hate speech is subjective. I don’t care for anyone that censor any speech.

Is the email adress already included in ghost, can u choose the mail name?

It is $9 if you have less than 500 subscribers, and it gets progressively more and more expensive as your subscriber base grows

too many choices today, too many choices!!! 😅

Hi Julie, Does Substack support PayPal or Payoneer ?

Zulieeeeee....help....I attempted to import my Medium articles to my Substack. It worked...but not just my articles came over. The zip download contained EVERY comment ever made on my articles as well as EVERY comment I've made since joining Medium. Luckily I've only been there since June of last year, so that only puts me around 800 items to manually delete instead of 8000 I'd have a year from now. Do you know of a way to Mass Delete posts from substack?

Your criticism of Substack really helped me, thank you! Hate speech has to be fought, because it has nothing to do with "free speech".

What exactly are you considering to be Covid miss information you mean like suggesting that people be healthy and take vitamins which have been repeatedly proven in peer reviewed publications to provide better benefits than the drugs

What is misinformation for you might be the actual truth. You have no way of knowing it, you believe official info: so for you that is truth....

I cannot believe you're literally asking for censorship and banning opinions you don't like. Very anti-democratic and bigoted (read: arrogant) to establish an universalist epistemic ontology inside one's head about what is _a priori_ "correct" or "incorrect". And to bear such rabid intolerance over dissenting minority voices is actual true hate speech.

Hi Zulie, enjoyed your video. I would be interested and hearing about your thoughts on LinkedIn publishing in contrast :) TYYY!!!

how do i add a video room to my website using ghost? i have no coding experience!

what platform is censorship free? that's the only thing I care about honestly.. so tired of someone saying I can't say something... I obviously am not promoting violence or doing revenge porn or something but basically anything else you should be able to say and in corporate America you cannot, its all gatekeepeed. which is infuriating to me