Your story. Your angle. Published in minutes — not days.
ItsMyNews is a contributor-first news platform where independent writers own their byline, keep 80% of ad revenue, and reach 4.2 million monthly readers without editors, gatekeepers, or thirty-day waitlists.
JUST PUBLISHED
Three stories that hit the front page in the last twelve minutes.
No editor in the loop. No holding pen. No re-scheduled embargo. The clock below is real, the bylines are contributors who logged in this morning, and the URLs are live right now.
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12 min agoFINANCE
Regional banks quietly reprice commercial real-estate loans — here's who blinks first.
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7 min agoCRYPTO
The L2 fee war has a quiet casualty, and it isn't the roll-ups you'd expect.
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3 min agoLOCAL
Inside the Brooklyn co-op that voted to take its heat pump off the gas grid — and what the city is doing next.
TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Six beats. 4.2 million readers. Your byline on day one.
The front page a contributor writes into on the morning they sign up — same readers, same indexing, same revenue counter, regardless of beat.
BY THE NUMBERS
What 80% revenue share, weekly payouts, and four-minute indexing actually look like next to the alternatives.
No editorial review board. No 30-day waitlist. No net-60 hold on your earnings. Just the platform terms, laid out side by side with the two places writers usually publish instead.
Term
ItsMyNews
Medium
Substack
Revenue share to writer
80%of net ad revenue, paid weekly
~50%paid net-60, reading-time weighted
90%of subscriber revenue only, no ad share
Time from draft to live URL
3 min 12 secaverage across 1.8M published articles
Same daybut distribution is curation-gated
Same daynewsletter-only, no built-in readership
Google News indexing
4 minutes94% pickup rate in Top Stories carousel
Hours to daysno editorial partnership with Google
Not eligibleSubstack newsletters are excluded
Editorial gatekeeping
None99.2% approval-after-the-fact rate
Algorithmiccapped distribution unless boosted
Nonebut you start with zero readers
4.2M
monthly unique visitors (Similarweb verified, Q1 2026)
214K+
registered contributors writing across 9 countries
1,847,302
articles published since the platform launched in 2021
94%
of articles land in Google News Top Stories within four minutes
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps from blank page to live URL.
No pitch deck. No topic call. No thirty-day onboarding email series. The editor opens, the words land, and the article is on the front page before the kettle finishes boiling.
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Open the editor
Sign up with an email — no application form. The mobile-first editor opens directly in your browser, with voice-to-article transcription in eleven languages if you'd rather talk than type.
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Write or transcribe
Draft in plain text, paste from a doc, or hold the mic. The editor saves every keystroke in real time and flags factual claims against public-source verification so you can correct before you ship.
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Hit publish
The article goes live, gets a verified-human badge, fires into Google News within four minutes, and starts earning you a share of the ad revenue from the first reader who clicks. Payouts land every Friday via Stripe.
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Average timer below each step on your first article: 3 min 12 sec.
PARALLEL CHANNELS
Writers who already have a Forbes or Wired byline — and still publish here.
ItsMyNews isn't a syndication deal. It's a parallel publishing channel contributors open when they want to ship a take today, keep their own byline, and reach readers who don't yet follow them.
“I publish the version of the story that needs to ship before the next news cycle on ItsMyNews, and the magazine version lands in Wired two weeks later. Same reporting, different cadence, no editors slowing the first one down.”
“I was skeptical about the 80% number until the first payout hit my Stripe account on a Friday morning. It's the only platform where I don't have to chase accounting for a quarter to know what I earned in week one.”
“Forbes is where I publish the polished take. ItsMyNews is where I publish the first take — the one that explains what's actually happening while the rest of the press is still waiting on comment. The audience here reads to learn, not to scroll.”
FEATURED IN
Nieman Lab · 2024 State of Platform Journalism
AWARDED
Online News Association · Innovation in Journalism · 2023
FUNDED BY
Lerer Hippeau · Series A · $11.4M · 2024
Founded in 2021 by former Reuters and Medium product lead Dana Kowalski. Headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, with a distributed team of 47 across nine countries.
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