Jim Acosta's new project attracts enormous subscriber number... but are all of them paying for it?

Jim Acosta's caller Substack has amassed 123,000 subscribers successful conscionable a substance days, arsenic cablegram quality continues its decline.

The improvement comes days aft CNN reported 1 of its worst ratings months successful history, weeks aft a circular of layoffs that affected astir 200.

Acosta, 53, was spared, though a lineup revamp saw him stripped of his accustomed 10 americium hour.

Despite efforts to acceptable him up with a caller one, the anchor made wide connected the acceptable of CNN Newsroom on Tuesday helium was going his ain way.

Within hours, helium was advertizing his Substack - titled The Jim Acosta Show - offering paid subscriptions.

A caller station penned connected Friday saw the ex-chief White House analogous convey chap erstwhile CNN staffer Oliver Darcy for his shout-out of the Substack. 

'The large Status newsletter by Oliver Darcy notes my Substack already taking off,' Acosta wrote a small aft 11am. '123k subscribers truthful acold and we are conscionable getting started folks. More to come. About an hr before, helium promoted the leafage to astatine slightest 2million connected X.

A enactment seemingly deleted from the leafage antecedently boasted astir having 'thousands of paid subscribers'. However, galore of the subscribers are not paying ones - with that circumstantial statistic hard to discern owed to the quality of the platform.

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Paid plans disposable see a monthly 1 for $8 and an yearly for $80. An enactment billed arsenic a 'Founding Member' program - besides lasting a twelvemonth - is disposable for $240.

Each offers entree to each of Acosta's posts and the quality to station comments wrong '[Acosta's] community', with nary differences specified betwixt the 'Founding Member' and lower-tiered 'Annual' plans.

Alongside the 3 subscription plans is an enactment simply listed arsenic none, wherever users are capable to presumption the 'occasional nationalist post' penned by Acosta.

DailyMail.com signed up for the escaped enactment and was capable to presumption a bid of posts, including his archetypal Substack unrecorded wherever helium filmed himself announcing the caller venture.

'Hey guys, it's Jim - and fto maine conscionable accidental this, I've had rather the day,' helium began successful the self-filmed video, which was besides posted to X.

'But arsenic you tin see, earlier contiguous - this was my past time astatine CNN. And I did privation to leap connected Substack unrecorded present for a infinitesimal and say, invited to my caller venture. I'm going autarkic - astatine slightest for now.

The journalist, who famously clashed with Donald Trump during his archetypal term, cryptically teased, 'This is conscionable the beginning.'

Repeating lines that appeared to notation Trump during his closing connection earlier successful the day, helium added, 'Don't springiness into the lies. Don't springiness into the fear.'

'Hold connected to the truth,' helium continued. 'And I anticipation we'll support this speech going.'

'Great to spot each of you here. We'll speech immoderate much soon.'

The station - really the Substack's 2nd - was pointedly titled 'Hold connected to the truth...' 

It is among those disposable for free. Acosta besides streamed a video featuring Norman Eisen, a CNN ineligible expert who served arsenic co-counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the archetypal impeachment and proceedings of Trump successful 2020. 

The Substack's archetypal post, a enactment cryptically titled Coming Soon, was posted mode backmost connected January 16, a time aft Darcy published a study featuring CNN insider quotes that insisted Wolf Blitzer was acceptable to instrumentality Acosta's hour.

That prediction came true, with Acosta seemingly speechmaking the penning connected the partition weeks earlier his last broadcast.

On the caller page, Acosta penned an further 740 words recalling his experiences astatine CNN - a station that's besides free.

A bid of other, much short-form updates are besides disposable to unpaid users - similar the 1 talking up Darcy and different showing his favored beagle. 

Another, written connected Friday afternoon, saw Acosta again proclaim his intent to instrumentality a stab astatine journalism connected his own, aft days of being panned by Trump and others connected Truth Social.

'Contrary to what immoderate successful the far-right echo enclosure person been saying this week, I person not been silenced,' Acosta wrote, arsenic subscribers continued to travel in.

'I’m close present folks. And I americium acceptable to get started!' helium added, aft the fig of Substack journalists successful quality and authorities making much than $1 cardinal doubled during past year.

Outlets similar The Ankler, a Hollywood quality startup, joined successful 2022 and Darcy's Status emerged precocious past year, with some boasting ample followings.