Independent Publishing Business
The Pulse: 126K Audience Across Newsletter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram
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- Followers
- 127K
- Monthly profit
- $475
Not reported by the seller: US audience, asset age.
- Niche
- Consciousness, health and independent media
- Platform
- Newsletter
- Category
- Independent Publishing Business
About this asset
The Pulse is a consciousness and current-affairs media brand launched in 2021 and sold here as one package across four properties. The Substack carries 45,000 subscribers, the YouTube channel 19,600, the Facebook page 49,000 and Instagram 13,000. Combined audience is 126,600.
The brand is the successor to a publication its founder ran for thirteen years. The audience predates the current properties and has followed the same editorial voice across both eras.
This listing is priced on audience, and the method is published here so buyers can check the working. Current revenue runs at about $5,700 a year from paid Substack subscriptions, and that figure measures how little has been built on top of the list. The owner runs the brand part-time and has never put a monetization program around it, so an earnings multiple would price five years of audience building at the level of a side project.
The ask is built from replacement cost: what a buyer would spend to assemble this audience from zero, discounted heavily for transfer risk. Newsletter subscribers cost $2 to $5 each through paid social. This listing values them well under a dollar, and values the three social properties at a fraction of general-market follower rates, because content in this category carries algorithmic headwind on Meta and YouTube.
The owner reports that direct offers to the email list have produced roughly $2,000 in the months he has sent them, and he sends them rarely. That response rate is the real asset: a list that converts, in a niche where direct response works, sitting almost entirely unworked.
This suits a buyer already running offers, an affiliate operation, or a newsletter portfolio in health, wellness, consciousness or independent media, who wants addressable audience to plug into an engine that already exists. Mainstream brand sponsorship is a poor fit for this category and the price does not assume it.
The buyer can keep the Pulse name or rebrand. The full audience transfers either way. The seller will hand over platform strategy and growth guidance on each property as part of the sale.
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- Every social property named in the listing, handed over across a 48 to 72 hour transitional admin window.
- The website with its domain, hosting, database, and content archive.
- Ad network, analytics, and payout accounts, plus the automations that run the daily output.
- The email list and its sending account where the listing includes one.
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- The content archive and any supplier or licensing paperwork behind it.
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The handover
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The first weeks
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