We’ve listened to your feedback, tested solutions and now here with an upgraded Subscribe center to make it easier than ever to help grow your subscribers and your audience of identified readers. Grab a pen and paper and take a seat while we break down the latest updates within your Grow Publisher Portal.

1. Multi View: Tailoring Forms to Perfection!

Introducing Multi View! How many subscribe forms are just right for each of your post’s page lengths? Multi View keeps the guessing at a minimum and helps provides you with a greater opportunity to capture your readers and grow your list. The number of subscribe forms that appear on your posts will automatically be tailored to suit the length of your content. Plus, we’ve fine-tuned it so your chosen spotlight form appears at the right moment in your posts, ensuring maximum impact without overwhelming your readers.

Regardless of your setup, Form Density and the default Spotlight Subscribe forms are flexible enough to work together seamlessly. Let’s say you want to have a Link Share form at the top of your post to really hook your audience, but still want subscribe forms throughout the rest of your post. No problem! Multi View tailors the number of forms on your post to suit your content.

2. Customization Made Easy: Take Control with Inview Effect Offset Fields!*

We’ve added a brand new toggle for Desktop/Mobile offset fields, giving you the power to adjust the vertical offset of your Spotlight Subscribe widget effortlessly. Customize the position of your widget for both desktop and mobile users, ensuring a seamless user experience across all devices. More information about Inview Effect, including a demo animation is now available in your Subscribe settings. *You should only adjust this setting if you encounter a header navigation conflict.  

3. Streamlined Navigation: Say Hello to Two Distinct Tabs

We’ve reimagined your Subscribe settings by dividing it into two distinct tabs: one for Forms and another for Global Settings. This new organization makes it a breeze to manage and customize your forms while easily tweaking essential global settings. No more hunting around for the right controls – everything you need is right at your fingertips, making your workflow smoother and more efficient.

We hope you’re just as excited as we are about the new and improved subscribe experience that’s designed to enhance your journey in identifying your readers, increase your subscriber growth and supercharge your monetization efforts! You’re not just a publisher; you’re a content creator, shaping the future of your business.

Ready to take on this challenge together? Log into the Grow Publisher Portal today and explore the new and improved Subscribe settings. 

We can’t wait to hear about the amazing results you achieve. No matter what the future holds with third-party cookies, we will continue to help you build your audience of identified readers, one feature at a time.

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Link Share: Share Your Favorite Posts with Ease

Link Share is a game-changer when it comes to sharing your favorite posts with your readers. We understand how important it is for you to connect directly with your audience and make it as convenient as possible for them to access your content. With Link Share, your readers can now send links of their favorite posts directly to their inbox with just a few clicks.

No more copy-pasting URLs and composing separate emails – Link Share streamlines the process and makes it incredibly easy for your readers to share your content. By enabling this new subscribe form, you’ll empower your readers to become advocates for your blog and effortlessly spread the word about your latest posts.

Most Valuable Content: Grow Your Subscriber Lists

Do you want to maximize your subscriber list and ensure that your most valuable content receives the attention it deserves? Then our Most Valuable Content feature is perfect for you. This feature allows you to display a subscribe form on your site, strategically placed near your most valuable content.

We understand that certain posts or pieces of content hold more importance to you and your readers. With Most Valuable Content, you can ensure that your subscribe form is prominently displayed. This increased visibility will help attract more subscribers and ensure that your audience doesn’t miss out on the content that matters most. 

Don’t have a recipe or how-to-card on your site? No worries, use the Most Valuable Content Selector to designate a custom placement for your subscribe form.  

How To Get Started

Implementing these new features is a breeze. Simply log into your Grow Publisher Portal account and navigate to your Subscribe settings. From there, you can easily enable both Link Share and Most Valuable Content.

We have also prepared detailed step-by-step guides to help you make the most of these features. Whether you’re a seasoned user or new to Grow, we are confident that you’ll find our instructions easy to follow.

What is Link Share

How to Set Up Link Share

How to Enable Most Valuable Content

What’s Next?

At Mediavine, we are committed to continuously improving our products and providing our publishers with the tools they need to succeed. Link Share and Most Valuable Content are just two examples of our dedication to innovation and enhancing your publisher experience while future-proofing your business. 

Try out these new features today to help your readers become more engaged and connected to your site than ever before. We can’t wait to see how you utilize these features to take your content to new heights!

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Why Should I Run Grow

We’ve designed Grow + our ad management solutions to work together seamlessly. When your readers opt in to Grow, advertisers are able to identify them and pay you more to advertise on your site.

• When your readers create a Grow account they are able to:
• Gain and maintain access to the content they love whenever they want
• Bookmark their favorite posts
• Get more of your content delivered directly to their inbox

Getting Started:

Here are a few ways to get started directly from the Grow Publisher Portal:

Already have a subscriber list built? Great! Swap out your existing subscribe forms with Grow’s Subscribe forms below.

• Spotlight Subscribe
• Subscribe Manual Placement
• Click to Subscribe
• Subscribe Action Pack

For more information, visit: Subscribe Settings Overview

Connect Grow with your email platform – Grow integrates with many of your favorite newsletter tools: Mailchimp, MailerLite, Convert Kit and more.

• Full List of Grow Integrations

• Not sending emails? We’ve got an easy, FREE way to do so. If you are looking to start emailing your subscribers but don’t know where to start, enable Automailer. Automailer lets you:
  • Regularly communicate with your subscribers to keep them engaged and informed about your latest and most popular content.
  • Send curated content to your subscribers.
• For more information, visit: What is Automailer?

Set up a Co-Branded Experience – Grow allows you to co-brand the sign-up form. Using the familiar branding of your site allows you to maintain your brand voice and keep your audience engaged.

For more information, visit: Co-Branded Sign Up

Appearance Settings – You can adjust Grow’s appearance settings with colors to fit your site’s aesthetic.

For more information, visit: Appearance Settings

𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝗽: If you’re writing about any of the niche-specific categories below, check out our best practices:

• Education
• Family & Parenting
• Food & Drink
• Hobbies & Interests
• Home & Garden
• Travel

Ready to identify your audience and keep your readers engaged? Visit grow.me/publishers for more information.

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Get ready for an all new way for your audience to search and manage their saved content with Grow.

Now, they can see your most popular content, dive into your archives, and when they find what they’re looking for, easily add it to their Bookmarks with just one click.

Bridging the gap between you and your readers

As a content creator, one of your top goals is to create an amazing experience for your site visitors. But your readers are currently lost in the shuffle of all your amazing content and getting frustrated when trying to find something.

We’re here to help!

Grow’s enhanced Search will:

✓ Bring you more traffic, pageviews and time on site with relevant searches at the top of your results

✓ Make it easier for readers to discover what they’re looking for by bundling related topics and showing them in the context of your content

✓ Encourage Bookmarks by making it easy for readers to save a post in one place and find it later on any device they choose to use

✓ Increase CTR — Grow is optimized to work with the latest technology on the web, which will make sure your article loads fast anywhere your readers are coming from

Our newly enhanced search experience is lightning fast and incorporates modern features with improved accuracy so you can more easily find what you’re looking for across all your posts and pages, even on sites with thousands of posts.

Ready for next steps? Let’s keep going.

A refreshed Search Experience

You’ve asked and we’ve delivered NEW Search Experience enhancements just in time for the holidays. We’ve added some additional features to make searching for the perfect gift, recipe or project a little easier. But the absolute best part (quite frankly my favorite) of our enhancements? Well, let’s just say we will get to that fairly soon.

The new Search user interface gives you and your readers one-stop access to:

• Bookmark from the Search homepage and search results (a double whammy!)
• Explore content from the Search homepage that breaks out your posts into most popular, latest and recommended as well as highlights their Bookmarks and recently viewed pages.
• Include the reader’s Bookmarks in search results

And the best part?

Publishers can also have a featured category pinned on their homepage!

I’d say its a win-win for everyone — as the publisher you have full control to display your top rated category (e.g. highlight your seasonal content) to increase engagement on your site while your readers can discover new content from their favorite publishers and save it to a list for easy access later.

And that’s just the start!

Ready to get started?

For anyone who knows me, they know I love a good recap, so let’s get into it!

We’re kicking off the holiday season with a major HIGH: an enhanced Search experience for you and your readers. Your readers now have the ability to locate their favorite articles within your site more quickly, and they’ll have even more fun exploring new articles on your site.

Plus, we’ve made it easier to search, save, and review all of your Bookmarks in one fell swoop, without ever leaving their browser tab. Just another way we are working to always improve your Grow experience.

Our team’s mission for Grow has always been to make audience engagement easier for our content creators, and that starts with you! Head to your Grow Publisher Portal to check out these new capabilities, and as always, let us know what you think so we can continue to make them even better. One day at a time, 365 days a year!

If you’re looking for a bit more guidance before you get started, I have just the thing for you. Our amazing Support team never misses a beat when it comes to guiding our publishers. Use the Help Center links below to explore more details on how to enable the enhanced search experience for your site(s).

What is the New Search Experience

New Search Results Display Settings

If you’re new here and are interested in learning more about how Grow is reimagining audience engagement for content creators, feel free to drop by one of our earlier articles   Getting Started with Grow: A Resource Guide for more details.

Thanks for stopping by and happy holidays from the Grow Team at Mediavine. Until next time — your friendly neighborhood Product Marketing Manager

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But, before I jump in to deliver some exciting news, I just have one thing to say: If you haven’t taken Grow for a spin — what are you waiting for?! While you’re contemplating the answer to this question, we’re continuing to make Grow even better!

A little over a month ago, we raved about our integration with ConvertKit. However, many of you were also curious to see if any additional email service providers (ESPs) were on our future roadmap. We get it. One size doesn’t always fit all.

Thanks to your feedback, we’ve added not one, but TWO additional ESP integrations to our Grow library: MailerLite and Mailchimp. I hope you’re sitting down because I can’t contain my excitement much longer. Let’s get into it.

Let’s break this down…

If we’re keeping score, I mean track, Grow has a total of THREE direct integrations with top requested ESP’s.

Grow’s MailerLite and Mailchimp integrations allow you to do more than just chat with your audience. With our MailerLite integration, you can add subscribers to your list and optionally add that same subscriber to a specific group. On the flip side with Mailchimp, you can add subscribers to an audience and also set subscribers to be added to a specific tag.

By supporting multiple actions per each individual Subscribe and Exclusive Content widget, the possibilities with your email list are endless. Ready for next steps? Let’s keep going.

Enabling your ESP Integration

Now that I’ve gotten all of the juicy details out of the way, let’s jump to the moment you’ve been waiting for, enabling your ESP integration.

I’ve provided links to our Help Center below that’s packed with more details on how to enable the MailerLite and Mailchimp integrations.

Mailchimp Integration Basics

How Do I Connect My Mailchimp Account

MailerLite Integration Basics

Where Can I Find My MailerLite Integration Key

As third party cookies are scheduled to disappear, it is becoming more and more imperative to collect first party data to improve personalization of your email campaigns with your audience. Integrating your ESP with Grow is a great way to kick start this process. So, what’s next?

I’ll tell you! Use Grow’s power packed features such as Spotlight Subscribe, Exclusive Content, and Pop Ups to drive your engagement and collect first party data. These three options are not only fantastic to have active on your site but they are even more useful when you’re creating content that your audience craves. Don’t rent, own your audience!

Join our Grow community

Let’s recap! Grow now has THREE major ESP integrations with ConvertKit, MailerLite and Mailchimp. If we haven’t gotten to your flavor of ESP yet, we’ve got Zapier! What’s even more exciting is that we’ve consistently seen growth since our platform launched and it’s all thanks to our phenomenal Grow super fans!

I don’t know about you, but I’m always amazed by the work our Product and Engineering teams roll out each month. It literally has me on the edge of my seat with my hands over my mouth so that I don’t spill the details too soon. If you’re anything like me and share the same sentiments around new feature releases for Grow, stay tuned!

We have a few more major releases heading out the door before the end of the year. So, stick around, continue to share your feedback and let us know what you want to see next from Grow.

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time — your friendly neighborhood Product Marketing Manager

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Imagine this: Your business has picked up, and suddenly you realize you don’t have a system in place to collect emails from your readers. You immediately scramble to set up a lead capture form and turn to the internet for help.

You come across terms like ESP, workflows, CRM and automation. You spend days and maybe weeks researching ways to simplify and organize the process but instead get overwhelmed by the many options.

Dropping the ball in building a verified email list can have dire consequences not only for your business but also your readers. Here is where Grow makes a big impact.

As we’ve mentioned countless times, we are passionate about supporting you, the publisher, at every stage of your journey. With our continuous roll out of Subscribe features, Grow provides the perfect avenue for you to stay connected with your audience at every turn.

What’s New?

First up, Subscribe has a new location! The Subscribe homepage is now located below the Grow Settings in the left navigation bar of the Grow Dashboard. With this move we are able to take advantage of the full width of your settings page to allow you more space to focus on building your form.

The latest user experience provides a new way to edit, clone and view individual subscribe forms. You can also disable seasonal forms — instead of deleting them — to save for later use.

Subscribe Wizard

During the form creation process, you’ll also notice our newly enhanced Subscribe Wizard.

Don’t know where to kick-start the form creation process? Our Subscribe Wizard will guide you step by step through setting up each form. Please note: Your wizard experience will change based on your form selection.

And tossing in a little extra goodness, we’ve included an area for you to preview the form as you complete changes before it goes live on your site.

Pop Ups

Next up, calling all pro Pop Up users. We heard you loud and clear about optional pop-ups to grow your list and … WISH GRANTED.

Our Google-friendly Pop Ups go hand in hand with the next feature I will introduce. But before I get ahead of myself, let’s spend more time talking about the advantages of using Pop Ups and what “Google-friendly” truly means.

Pop Ups offer a few distinct advantages that explain why they’re associated with a higher conversion rate:

• They’re highly visible.
• Their design usually captures the visitor’s attention and prolongs the time spent on your website (thus increasing your conversion rate).

In order for a pop-up to be classified as Google-friendly, it cannot display on mobile if the reader is coming from Google on the first pageview.

Grow handles this mobile-specific Google policy for you! If a reader comes to your site from Google search, the mobile pop-up will not display to the reader on their first pageview. If they happen to visit a second page on mobile, Grow is allowed to serve the pop-up at that time and will take care of that too.

Interested in getting started with Pop Ups? Click the link here and head to the Help Center.

Category Targeting

This next feature packs a big punch. Introducing, Category Targeting!

Category Targeting allows content creators to set subscribe forms to specific categories on their site. Choose your next adventure with a total of four subscribe forms: Pop Ups, Manual Placement, Click to Subscribe and Spotlight Subscribe.

Note: Click to Subscribe and Manual Placement form types are not available with Category Targeting as they can be placed anywhere on a publisher’s website.

As a Grow user, you can configure as many widgets with the same form types as you want and target the same categories. In return, Grow will auto select one of the forms to render using AI.

In order to effectively run Category Targeting, your site needs to be on WordPress and running Grow Social to pull your site categories.

And before you ask, YES, our Google-friendly Pop Ups and Category Targeting features go hand in hand. Think of them as your two new best friends for Grow!

What’s Next for Grow?

Our Grow team has been teasing a few features across conferences, and as always, I’m ready to unload. Here’s a sneak peek of a few of my favorite features coming down the pipeline before the close of 2022.

• Downloadables – offers a more cohesive way to add your opt-in incentives and digital downloads to your subscribe forms.
• Auto Mailer – Don’t have a newsletter? That’s okay – this new feature allows you to build your subscriber list without the hassle of managing an email service provider. Automailer allows you to utilize Recommended Content as a path to get your readers funneled directly to your site – similar to an RSS feed.

Get Started With Grow Today!

Let’s recap! There are tons of new features coming your way before the close of 2022. If you’re like me and need a quick visual to recap all the great features we discussed today, no worries! I’ve provided links to our Help Center below that are packed with additional details on where to go and how to enable the various subscribe form types.

• Subscribe Homepage Overview
• Subscribe Form Types
• How to Edit an Existing Subscribe Form

If you’ve gotten this far and are amazed by the awesome work our Product team continues to roll out with Grow but haven’t created your FREE account, what are you waiting for? Click the link here to sign up today.

We’re shaping the content creation industry one feature at a time, and we hope you stick around for the journey.

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time — your friendly neighborhood Product Marketing Manager

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At Mediavine, we’re passionate about supporting publishers at every stage of their journey and being completely transparent along the way. We love letting you know what is coming, and it makes us happy to see you excited for all the awesome features on the way.

And of course, we enjoy throwing some surprises in there too! Before I share an exciting sneak peek of what we’ve been up to on the Grow team, I want to introduce myself!

Hi! I’m Amethyst Duke, Product Marketing Manager for Grow, lover of all things Marvel (sorry DC fans).

For the next few minutes, I’ll discuss what Grow truly means for the publisher community and how our full service engagement suite is making unique strides in the content creation industry.

I hope you’re sitting because … it’s about to be, legend — wait for it — dary! LEGENDARY.

What is Grow and who is it for?

Grow is Mediavine’s full service engagement suite designed to streamline the process for publishers to connect with their target audiences.

With ever-changing consumer behavior, it is even more imperative that publishers build relationships with their audience and stay connected to their ideal readers today.

Grow allows publishers to understand their audience, create content they crave and form deeper connections with their readers.

Grow is not just perfect for publishers but for their readers as well. Once your readers create a Grow account, they can unlock exclusive content, share and bookmark their favorite posts and — my absolute favorite — subscribe to a publisher’s email newsletter.

There are so many action packed features to discover once you join the Grow community — it’s everything your business needs to do MORE of what you love.

But let me not get too ahead of myself. Let’s stay in the now!

What are the current Grow features?

Our FREE plan is perfect for Mediavine publishers, first-time publishers and anyone who has never used an engagement suite before. We know getting started with a new system can be overwhelming, and Grow has tons of features that make life easier for our publishers and readers — isn’t that the goal after all?

Below are a list of features (in no particular order) that are currently live in the market and ready for use as soon as you enable Grow in your Publisher Portal.

• Spotlight Subscribe – lets you build your mailing list while encouraging readers to sign up for Grow and consent to personalized ads. Our latest integration with ConvertKit gives you the option to connect to your ESP so that new subscribers go directly to your email list. Since Spotlight rolled out, we’ve had 3.2M new newsletter signups across the board for those using the feature.
• Exclusive Content – use this feature to lock full recipes, printables, digital downloads and more. Once the content is locked, a call-to-action will prompt a reader to sign up for a free Grow account, along with requesting their permission to add them to your email subscriber list and serve them personalized ads. After setting up Exclusive Content, our own internal sites began seeing over half of their subscribers come from Exclusive Content CTA’s! One of our employees here at Mediavine enabled this feature and experienced a 500% increase in subscribers. Amazing!
• Search – The new Search user interface gives your readers access to a homepage that breaks out your posts into most popular, latest, and recommended as well as highlights their bookmarks and recently viewed pages. And the best part? Publishers can also have a featured category pinned on their homepage!
• Recommended Content – displayed to the reader based specifically on their browsing activity and is intended to match their interests to encourage further exploration on the site rather than just show more content on the same subject.
• Recipe Card Integration – a prominently placed button in the recipe card will help encourage readers to save a recipe or how-to in their bookmarks list, which will also encourage them to sign up, authenticate and consent to personalized advertisements.
• Co-Branded Sign Up – allows you to upload your site’s logo so that it appears on the sign-up page a visitor sees when they create a Grow account through your site. This will signal to your readers that you are a part of the Grow community and can access their favorite articles and recipes with their personal Grow account.

What features are coming soon?

We are always listening to your feedback and are so appreciative of you taking the time to share it with us via in-person chats or email.

Every bit of feedback is reviewed by our product team and is used to help us plan improvements and updates for the future. Truly.

We love letting you know what is coming, and it makes us happy to see you excited for all the awesome features on the way.

We have tons of new features headed your way before the end of the year. Are you up for a sneak peek?

Quick tip … the more details you can provide on how a certain feature will help you in your business, the better our product team can use that feedback when planning future updates!

• New integrations to allow publishers to automatically add users to ESPs without the need for downloading and uploading a list or using an intermediary service such as Zapier.
• The ability to set specific subscribe forms to appear on certain pages and categories to better integrate with your email automations.
• Potentially expanding Subscribe to publishers without existing newsletters.
• Continuing to add integrations into our other products, such as Create.
• Entirely new products and experiences inside Grow that will further encourage subscriptions.
• Learn more about the growth of your audience and more with Grow Publisher Portal Analytics.
• And even more that we probably don’t know yet! As always, we build things based on your feedback, so tell us what you want by emailing grow.me@mediavine.com!

Is it really free to join the Grow community?

Yep! Grow is 100% FREE. No hidden costs, subscriptions or charges. Grow is marked to lessen the everyday hassle of being an independent publisher so that you can save time, stand out and provide top notch content to your readers.

Can Grow improve my Mediavine income?

YES! A hundred times, YES! Grow removes the guesswork, maximizing ad spend on your blog so you can spend more time engaging with your audience and building on your strategy. As soon as Grow is enabled, you should start earning more revenue immediately.

With every user that signs in to your website and gives you consent to serve personalized ads, you’ll automatically make more money with Grow.

What are the differences between Grow and Slickstream:

I know, I know — there are other platforms out in the market that provide a variety of features, but you’re probably wondering how they compare to Grow. If you’re more of a visual person, we’ve put together an easy-to-read table that breaks out the many reasons why Grow is the perfect solution for your publisher and readers’ needs. Let’s take a look.

We’re continuing to reimagine Grow with the goal of making it more powerful and easier to use for our publishers and their readers!

Getting Started with Grow

Now that I’ve laid all my cards on the table, what are you waiting for?! If you’ve read through the list of Grow features and thought “I need that!” then Grow has your name written all over it!

To get started, there are two different paths to enabling Grow as a publisher.

#1 Mediavine Publishers: Head to your Dashboard and enable Grow with one toggle. Go to Grow from the main navigation, Enable Grow at the top of the page and then click the Save settings button.

After you enable the setting, Grow is automatically loaded through the Script Wrapper and all configuration can be done directly in the Mediavine Dashboard. There’s nothing to install and you’re ready to get started discovering the latest features immediately!

#2: Non-Mediavine Publishers: We’re expanding Grow in more ways than one! Think BIGGER AND BETTER. If you’ve launched or are even thinking about launching a new site, Grow is your solution! Don’t wait to build traffic or spend countless hours researching how to engage with your audience. Use Grow as your engagement solution to capture your readers with exclusive content and provide personalized ads. We’re always excited when new users join our Grow community — sign up here

Once you’ve enabled Grow in your account, have some fun — customize your branding, collect subscribers, build exclusive content for your readers and add in a few of your favorite integrations (e.g. ConvertKit).

Found a favorite feature? Well we’re dying to hear about it! Tell us how important that feature is to you, and add some additional context by emailing us at grow.me@mediavine.com! The more we know about how you want to use a feature and what’s important to you, the better we can make it!

If you’re still not ready to take the leap just yet, that’s okay! Head to the Related Posts section below to discover more details on Grow on how our innovative platform is changing lives within the Publisher community.

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time — your friendly neighborhood Product Marketing Manager

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