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Top Customer Success Newsletters

The 26 most sponsor-active Customer Success newsletters, ranked by our Newsletter Leader Score.

📊 26 ranked newsletters 🔄 Updated August 14, 2026 🤖 Compiled by Sponsor Scout
1

Practitioner-led customer success newsletter sharing playbooks and tactical guidance for CSMs and CS leaders.

weeklycustomer success professionalscustomer successplaybooksretention
🤝 8 known sponsors👥 ~4,300 subscribers
👤 Written by Hakan Ozturk · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
2

LinkedIn newsletter sharing customer-first approaches, customer success tips, and case studies centered on retention and cross-functional alignment.

biweeklycustomer success practitioners and leaderscustomer successcustomer experienceretention
🤝 7 known sponsors👥 ~13,000 subscribers
👤 Written by Oren Cohen · Newsletter AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
3
Leader Score 65

CS Insider is a customer success career and strategy newsletter with advice, tactics, and commentary for CS professionals. It publishes practical email issues and maintains a broader CS content/community brand.

weeklycustomer success professionalscustomer successcareer developmentsaas
👥 ~15,000 subscribers
👤 Written by Brandon Cestrone · Sr. CSM & Founder of CS InsiderVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
4
Leader Score 64

Weekly Substack focused on GTM careers with regular Customer Success job-market coverage, including dedicated CSM editions. It attracts advertiser activity via explicit issue sponsorships.

weeklycustomer success, sales, marketing, and GTM professionalscustomer successjobsgtm careers
🤝 1 known sponsor
👤 Written by James Fowles · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
5

A weekly Customer Success newsletter for SaaS leaders focused on AI, post-sales operating models, onboarding, renewals, and scaling customer outcomes. It has explicit sponsorship inventory and a sizable stated reach across newsletter, websi…

weeklyCustomer Success executives and senior SaaS post-sales leaderscustomer successsaasai
👥 ~5,500 subscribers
👤 Written by Jay Nathan · Co-founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
6

A Substack newsletter about turning post-sales and customer success into a revenue-driving function. It targets CS leaders, CEOs, and CROs with operator-focused essays and frameworks.

weeklyCS leaders, CEOs, and CROscustomer successpost-salessaas
🤝 1 known sponsor
👤 Written by Andrea Bumstead · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
7
Leader Score 56

Gainsight’s ongoing post-sales and customer-retention publication spanning podcast and newsletter formats, centered on customer success, retention, AI, and post-sales leadership.

weeklycustomer success and post-sales leaderscustomer successretentionpost-sales
👤 Written by Josh Schachter · HostVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
8

A customer success newsletter focused on renewals, expansion, AI fluency, and commercial CS skills. It is written by Anika Zubair and publishes frequent operator-focused issues.

weeklycustomer success managers and CS leaderscustomer successrenewalsexpansion
👤 Written by Anika Zubair · FounderVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
9
Leader Score 53

Weekly Substack for CX and post-sales leaders focused on moving from survey-only customer experience programs to AI-forward customer intelligence and action.

weeklycustomer experience and post-sales leaderscustomer successcustomer experienceai
👤 Written by Bill Staikos · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
10
Leader Score 53

A weekly Substack on building revenue systems across sales, marketing, revenue operations, and customer success. It targets founders and revenue leaders looking for tactical operating playbooks.

weeklyfounders and revenue leaderscustomer successsalesmarketing
👤 Written by Matt Lauro · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
11
Leader Score 51

A Customer-Led Growth newsletter focused on understanding customers, improving retention, and building recurring revenue systems. It sits adjacent to customer success but covers it as a core operating discipline.

monthlyB2B SaaS founders, marketers, and post-sales operatorscustomer successcustomer-led growthretention
👤 Written by Gia (Georgiana) Laudi · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
12

Weekly newsletter for customer success leaders with psychology-backed frameworks, leadership strategy, and practical career guidance. It is clearly positioned for CS leadership and team-building.

weeklycustomer success leaders and aspiring managerscustomer successleadershipcoaching
👤 Written by Rachel Provan · Founder & WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
13
Leader Score 50

Bi-weekly newsletter for Customer Success leaders on making CS a revenue function and applying AI to post-sales strategy.

biweeklyCustomer Success leaders and revenue-minded post-sales operatorscustomer successairevenue
👤 Written by Iliyana Stareva · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
14

A personal Substack sharing lessons from scaling customer success organizations, including org design, post-sales strategy, and AI in CS. The newsletter is written from the perspective of an operator formerly at Rippling and now at Cursor.

monthlycustomer success leaders and startup operatorscustomer successpost-salesai
👤 Written by Emily Liu · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
15
Leader Score 48

Independent Substack on practical Customer Success leadership, AI-augmented CS, and operating-model design from a working enterprise CS leader.

monthlycustomer success leaders and senior CSMscustomer successaileadership
👤 Written by Joshua Vogel · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
16
Leader Score 47

Monthly customer success newsletter from Customer Success Collective covering blogs, reports, events, podcasts, templates, and expert-led articles for CS practitioners and leaders. It is part of a larger global CS media/community brand.

monthlycustomer success professionals and leaderscustomer successcustomer experienceretention
🤝 1 known sponsor👥 ~55,000 subscribers
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17

Substack by Jeff Ignacio focused on revenue operations, with recurring material that explicitly covers CS Operations, renewals, expansion, and customer-success systems. It monetizes through paid subscriptions and an explicit sponsorship kit…

biweeklyrevenue leaders, CS ops leaders, and GTM operatorscustomer successcs opsrevenue operations
👤 Written by Jeff Ignacio · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
18

A monthly customer-success newsletter from Practical CSM sharing training materials, webinars, frameworks, and CS best practices. It supports both individual contributors and customer success leaders.

monthlycustomer success managers, leaders, and job seekers entering CScustomer successtrainingleadership
👤 Written by Rick Adams · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
19

A niche weekly email focused on scaled and digital customer success, curating practical links and operator insights around self-service, enablement, and retention.

weeklycustomer success operators focused on scaled and digital programscustomer successscaled customer successdigital customer success
👤 Written by Evan Hamilton · WriterVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
20
Leader Score 44

Independent thought-leadership publication from one of the best-known voices in customer success, covering LTV, retention, expansion revenue, and CS operating models. The site is newsletter-enabled and actively maintained.

monthlycustomer success leaders, SaaS executives, and revenue operatorscustomer successretentionltv
👤 Written by Lincoln Murphy · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
21

A global community newsletter and content program for women in customer success, onboarding, support, and post-sales. It offers curated newsletter ads and other advertising placements.

monthlywomen working in customer success, onboarding, support, and related post-sales rolescustomer successpost-saleswomen in tech
👥 ~5,500 subscribers
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22
Leader Score 42

A French-language weekly customer success newsletter designed to help CSMs improve faster with short practical guidance and field insights.

biweeklycustomer success managers and CS practitionerscustomer successcsmsaas
👤 Written by Francois Decaux · Newsletter Lead / AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
23
Leader Score 38

Weekly ChurnZero newsletter delivering customer success content on churn prevention, CS team building, subscription growth, and retention benchmarks.

weeklycustomer success teams and leaderscustomer successchurnretention
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24

A customer-success newsletter focused on proactive CSM practice, customer value, retention, and revenue-oriented CS operating methods. It publishes tactical guides and frameworks for CSMs and CS leaders.

monthlycustomer success managers and CS leaderscustomer successretentioncustomer value
🤝 1 known sponsor
👤 Written by Markus Rentsch · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
25
Leader Score 30

Arrows' ongoing newsletter on customer onboarding, adoption, retention, and practical customer-success execution. It blends original guidance with lessons from CS leaders and onboarding operators.

monthlycustomer success and onboarding teamscustomer successonboardingretention
👤 Written by Stuart Balcombe · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?
26

A Customer Success-focused Substack about how AI and changing software economics are reshaping CS leadership, retention, and post-sales models. The visible issue byline shows 'John at SuccessVP,' but a full current identity match was not ce…

quarterlycustomer success leaders, founders, and B2B SaaS operatorscustomer successpost-salesai
👤 Written by John · AuthorVerify you're the owner — free: badge, sponsor pitch page & sponsor leads· Not you? Who writes it?

16 companies sponsor Customer Success newsletters

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How we rank — the Newsletter Leader Score

Every newsletter is scored 0–100 by Sponsor Scout as we search the open web daily. The score rewards newsletters that reach real audiences and consistently attract sponsors. These findings are updated regularly.

Sponsor activityHighest weight
How many distinct companies actively sponsor the newsletter — the strongest signal of a live, fundable audience.
Publishing cadenceHigh weight
How regularly issues ship. Daily & weekly cadences earn more than sporadic sends.
AudienceMedium weight
Estimated subscriber reach and the quality of the readership (founders, operators, investors).
RecencyLower weight
How recently they last published — active beats dormant.
ReachLower weight
Web, social, and community footprint that amplifies a sponsor's spend.
Verified ownerBonus
A confirmed newsletter owner who has verified their listing with a one-click email check — verified newsletters rank higher and earn a badge.

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