Three unexpected benefits my business saw from our first long-term partnership

Three unexpected benefits my business saw from our first long-term partnership My brand's first ever year long partnership is coming to an end. You guys might know it was with BRITA. I've talked a lot about what this partnership meant to me as a founder for my mental health, my cash flow, but I wanted to talk about three unexpected benefits that we got from a longer term partnership. First, we actually saw increased audience engagement as this was an always on campaign. We had BRITA integrations every single week across our media brands. And our audience started associating BRITA with one of the brands that was helping their favourite podcast, Substack media brand in general keep going. And because our audience, especially on our podcasts are really culty, they started stunning BRITA as well. When do audiences ever get excited about sponsor content? I don't know, but they did for our BRITA content. Second, our partnership helped us get a new office space. You guys know it was touch and go there for a bit with the whole office space journey. But I am so serious that this long term partnership with BRITA was the reason that we were able to sign a new office space immediately when this place came available. It's about having that consistency and guaranteed revenue. And speaking of consistency, having an "always-on" campaign, a long term partnership like this, I'm not kidding, it helped me push through some of the hardest times in my business this year cause I had to. There was no other choice. we always had commercial activity, even when I was at my lowest points and I felt like how can I possibly show up to work this week? How can I possibly be my best self? I just had to be. It helped us stay on course. It pushed me to continue to produce high quality content consistently, the content that I know we always have the ability to produce. But sometimes when you're in the throes of startup life, you convince yourself otherwise. So for our first long term partnership, this couldn't have gone better. And I'm so proud of the work that we did with BRITA this year. And I'm so proud that BRITA as a brand was the first company that came on as our year long sponsor.