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🗓️Joined Substack in 2023 — 2 years ago.
📤Posts about 1× per week.

👥 Audience demographics

Estimated

Modeled from this creator's niche, platform & region — a niche benchmark, not this creator's real audience data.

Gender split
Male 50% Female 50%
Age · peak 18-24
13-177%
18-2428%
25-3427%
35-4423%
45+15%
Top geographies
  • United States34%
  • India11%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Brazil6%
  • Indonesia5%
Likely interests
EntertainmentLifestyleTrending

💬 Newsletter engagement

Measured

Real reader activity from the last 12 posts — reactions, comments and restacks are public on every Substack post.

32
❤ avg reactions / post
3
💬 avg comments / post
7
🔁 avg restacks / post
0%
Buildingreaction rate
Free issues (reach the whole list) vs paywalled
100% free

Almost every issue is free — a sponsor reaches the entire subscriber base.

About

The official newsletter of Balls & Strikes, each week from Jay Willis

🔀 Audience overlap

Estimated

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