Brad Kelly

@bradkellyesque · bradkellyesque · Substack profile · Literature

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Brad Kelly has 1,223 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 20 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 7.

Followers read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 1,223; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 734; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 20; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 7
Bestsellers rank: not on a board

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Brad Kelly on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	1,223		734

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

20 publications recommend Brad Kelly; 1 started in the last 30 days. Brad Kelly recommends 7, and 3 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2024-11	1
2025-01	1
2025-06	3
2025-08	2
2025-09	1
2025-10	2
2025-11	2
2026-01	1
2026-02	1
2026-03	1
2026-04	1
2026-06	1
2026-08	1
2026-09	1
2026-10	1

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.