Thanks Vasco! Here’s the graph of EA Newsletter subscribers over time. We’re about to hit 64K subscribers :)
(Edit: replaced the tooltip to show our end-of-January totals, the last full month of data we have)
As a side note, the reason why we track actively engaged subscribers as our central growth metric is because many people who are subscribed never open the newsletter, and therefore we don’t think they get value from it. In general, we think “flow” metrics (like active engagement, attendance in a given year) are a better proxy for our present-day impact than “stock” metrics (like the number of people who have ever come to an EAG).
I’m glad the dashboard has been useful for you! Hearing about user demand is definitely valuable data for us. Unfortunately we’ve had to deprioritize maintenance on this for a while, due to higher priority M&E and engineering projects taking precedence over the last few quarters.
Relatedly, we will soon be hiring for a software engineer to join the Online Team and work on engineering projects across CEA. I’m really excited that we are building out our technical and analytical capacity (hi @Rory Fenton!). If any software engineers reading want CEA to have more capacity to execute on projects like this, I encourage you to apply!
It is nice to see significant growth of the number of subscribers over 2025, especially considering the downwards trend over 2023 and 2024.
I agree “flow” metrics are a better proxy for current impact, and that the number of actively engaged subscribers is a better metric than the number of subscribers.
I’m glad the dashboard has been useful for you! Hearing about user demand is definitely valuable data for us. Unfortunately we’ve had to deprioritize maintenance on this for a while, due to higher priority M&E and engineering projects taking precedence over the last few quarters.
To clarify, I do not know whether keeping an updated dashboard is a good use of time relative to other activities you could be doing. My overarching point is just that I personally find valuable the reporting of some clear metrics that seem reasonably correlated with impact, like the number of active subscribers to the EA Newsletter.
Thanks Vasco! Here’s the graph of EA Newsletter subscribers over time. We’re about to hit 64K subscribers :)
(Edit: replaced the tooltip to show our end-of-January totals, the last full month of data we have)
As a side note, the reason why we track actively engaged subscribers as our central growth metric is because many people who are subscribed never open the newsletter, and therefore we don’t think they get value from it. In general, we think “flow” metrics (like active engagement, attendance in a given year) are a better proxy for our present-day impact than “stock” metrics (like the number of people who have ever come to an EAG).
I’m glad the dashboard has been useful for you! Hearing about user demand is definitely valuable data for us. Unfortunately we’ve had to deprioritize maintenance on this for a while, due to higher priority M&E and engineering projects taking precedence over the last few quarters.
Relatedly, we will soon be hiring for a software engineer to join the Online Team and work on engineering projects across CEA. I’m really excited that we are building out our technical and analytical capacity (hi @Rory Fenton!). If any software engineers reading want CEA to have more capacity to execute on projects like this, I encourage you to apply!
Thanks for sharing, Angelina.
It is nice to see significant growth of the number of subscribers over 2025, especially considering the downwards trend over 2023 and 2024.
I agree “flow” metrics are a better proxy for current impact, and that the number of actively engaged subscribers is a better metric than the number of subscribers.
To clarify, I do not know whether keeping an updated dashboard is a good use of time relative to other activities you could be doing. My overarching point is just that I personally find valuable the reporting of some clear metrics that seem reasonably correlated with impact, like the number of active subscribers to the EA Newsletter.