Featured Adds 6,251 beehiiv Newsletters to Its PR Search Tool

Featured, the AI co-pilot for PR, has expanded its Find Independent Writers tool with the addition of 6,251 beehiiv newsletters. This new feature allows PR professionals and subject-matter experts to search for newsletter writers by topic using natural language queries. Users can type requests like “find beehiiv newsletters that cover B2B SaaS marketing” to see matching newsletters, including author details, topics, publishing cadence, linked social accounts, and subscriber counts. The tool also offers a Draft Pitch button to generate a starting pitch, and results can be downloaded as a CSV. The move aims to streamline the process of finding relevant beehiiv writers, who are often not listed in traditional newsroom directories.

To inform the expansion, Featured analyzed its database of 6,251 beehiiv newsletters, revealing key insights in The State of beehiiv for PR. The data shows that 81.6% of these newsletters published at least once in the last 30 days, and 47.7% published 12 or more times in the last 90 days, indicating high activity. Social media integration is strong, with 85.7% linking at least one social account and 70.8% linking two or more; Instagram (57.9%) and LinkedIn (57.0%) lead. The largest categories are business (27.0%), technology (16.8%), and artificial intelligence (14.6%). Among newsletters displaying subscriber counts, the median is 17,000, with standout examples like The Rundown AI (2,000,000) and Superhuman AI (1,500,000). The report also notes that beehiiv’s subscription revenue grew from $8 million in 2024 to $19 million in 2025, and Muck Rack’s State of Creator Journalism report found that one in three journalists now self-publish independently.

Brett Farmiloe, founder and CEO of Featured, emphasized the importance of relevance over volume: “beehiiv writers publish fast, and most of them link a LinkedIn or Instagram profile, which makes them easy to reach and easy to pitch badly. A pitch that lands is one that names the newsletter’s last issue and offers something the next issue needs. We built this search so a PR professional can find the five beehiiv newsletters that already cover their subject, not blast five hundred.” Find Independent Writers covers Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, and Medium in one search, and is available on every Featured plan, including the free plan. Featured also owns HARO and Connectively, and continues to build tools that help PR professionals land media placements and grow AI visibility.