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This week I discuss a beehiiv newsletter raising $2M, .com domains with AI in the name selling big, and PFPs losing billions in market cap
Richard Patey
August 16, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Hey there 👋,
In this week’s newsletter, I discuss:
A beehiiv newsletter raises $2M
AI .com domains selling big
Profile pic NFTs lose billions in market cap
Cheers!
Richard Patey - @richardpatey
DIGITAL MEDIA
Sara Fischer, senior media reporter for Axios, announced that the fantasy football media property Fantasy Life, by Matthew Berry, has raised $2M from entrepreneurs, athletes and investors.
Investors with ‘specific expertise in building newsletter businesses’ are the Morning Brew co-founder and CEO Austin Rief who joins the board, along with theSkimm co-founders, as well as Workweek CEO Adam Ryan (mentioned in last week’s issue).
Fantasy Life launched as a daily email newsletter in 2020 to promote its merch but then:
…has since evolved into the anchor of a sizable media business, with 350,000 email subscribers and more than 2 million unique visitors visiting fantasylife.com per month
Its audience has made it a seven figure business from selling sponsorships, and has 13 full-time staff.
But the best bit is that its newsletter is on beehiiv as Tyler the CEO posts:
proud to have played a (very small) part in this. one of the fastest growing and well-rounded newsletters on @beehiiv
congrats @MatthewBerryTMR@EliotCrist@JordanFiegleman 🥳🫡
— Tyler Denk 🐝 (@denk_tweets)
Aug 15, 2023
DOMAINS
A few issues ago, I featured how domains with crypto at the start were selling for big money. This week it’s AI at the end that has been doing well in 2023, in particular photoAI.com for $40K:
Here are the top .com domain name sales ending in ai in 2023 according to name bio data
$40,000 wassup @levelsio
$16,000
SYAI.com $15,000
ApexAi.com $11,000
PornAi.com $10,000… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— DomainSalesBot.com (@domainsalesbot)
Aug 13, 2023
The buyer of which is Pieter Levels who has made a big ROI from AI domains by building actual businesses out on them:
Made over $1,000,000 in 10 months with AI now:
- (Sep '22)
- (Oct '22)
- (Feb '22)($1.1M SGD, so $822K USD, but with the AI Avatar money pumped into NVIDIA stock profits it's over $1M USD too)
Especially… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— @levelsio (@levelsio)
Aug 10, 2023
CRYPTO
Sam aka Punk 9059 aka NFTstats shared a chart yesterday showing that over the last 6 months there has been a $2.2B (yes that’s a B) decrease in the market cap of major NFT profile picture projects (PFPs):
The market cap of major PFP projects is down around $2.2 billion in the past six months, or 1,500,000 in ETH terms.
This is just the past six months. From the market peak, the numbers are worse.
Amidst the noise and chaos, it's easy to forget just how down people are. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— NFTstats.eth (@punk9059)
Aug 15, 2023
BAYC has seen the biggest decrease, peaking at 76ETH before dropping to its now 28ETH floor:
In USD terms, that’s a $77K drop from $129K to $52K today.
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