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Stephen Follows has 23,123 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #15 on Substack's Film & TV Bestsellers board. 64 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 69.

Followers read · Boards read

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
23,123
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
not shown
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
64
+2 in 30 days
Recommends
69
Bestsellers rank
#15
Film & TV

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.

22,50022,75023,00023,25023,50023,750 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 23,123
22,50022,75023,00023,25023,50023,750 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 23,123
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 Stephen Follows on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 202623,123

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Film & TV Bestsellers#15#154 of 4
Film & TV Rising#23#234 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Film & TV Bestsellers151515150
Film & TV Rising29444423▲6

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

64 publications recommend Stephen Follows; 2 started in the last 30 days. Stephen Follows recommends 69, and 8 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

Oct 24Jan 25AprJulOctJan 26AprJulOct
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. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Oct 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2024-102
2025-021
2025-032
2025-041
2025-051
2025-071
2025-082
2025-092
2025-105
2025-113
2025-123
2026-014
2026-024
2026-033
2026-045
2026-053
2026-065
2026-076
2026-082
2026-096
2026-103

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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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Film & TV writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (26 writers in that group), but not Stephen Follows.

  • Alex Rollins Berg@underexposed
    recommends 6 of them
  • Randy Greenberg@randygreenbergbiz
    recommends 4 of them
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    recommends 4 of them
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  • Cole Haddon@colehaddon
    recommends 3 of them
  • tepper@teppertoks
    recommends 3 of them
  • Kathleen Lingo@kathleenlingo
    recommends 3 of them
  • Victoria's Substack
    recommends 3 of them
  • The Hollywood Hang's Substack
    recommends 3 of them
  • Breaking Story
    recommends 3 of them

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