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Recently Shipped5 releases · updated Aug 23, 2026

Recently shipped AI Discovery with AEO-ready websites, AI crawl control, AI-built digital products, and the beehiiv Agent.

AI Discovery optimizes newsletters for AI answers. AEO-Ready Websites format content for citation by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, where being cited is the new ranking. AI Crawl Control gives publishers a say in how answer engines access content, and a new AI Builder helps create digital products.

Newsletter core updates are out.

  • Click Triggers start an automation when a subscriber clicks a specific link — ideal for follow-ups, tagging high-intent readers, or launching a sale.
  • Random Cohort Sends deliver to a random subset for testing.
  • Custom Group Deals offer discounted team and group pricing on paid subscriptions.
  • The Visual Editor reached stable release.
  • The Send API for programmatic sends landed on Max plans.

Recommendation Network combined organic and paid growth. Recommendations and Boosts merged into one engine, with over 15 million subscriptions created to date. Creators can grow faster and monetize by recommending others.

Group Subscriptions sell seats to organizations. One purchase covers multiple team members, with dedicated dashboards for managing and retaining paying subscribers.

Write Access gives AI control of the platform. Users create and edit posts, build multi-step automations, and launch products, polls, and surveys by chatting with their AI tool.

AEO websites and AI crawl control launch

This release4 featuresNew capabilitiesAI-tallied from the release notes

New AI Discovery suite adds AEO-ready websites with structured data, llms.txt files, and author verifiability, plus AI Crawl Control letting publishers block or allow specific AI bots. Digital Products gains an AI Builder and a beehiiv Agent helps launch products.

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Click triggers for automations; Send API hits Max plans

This release5 featuresNew capabilitiesAI-tallied from the release notes

Automations can now trigger on link clicks, with group subscription deals supporting custom pricing and payment terms. The Send API is now available on Max plans, adding preview URLs, instant validation, and audience confirmation per post, alongside random cohort sends and a stable Visual Editor.

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Podcast upgrades: new automations, premium previews, RSS importer

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Podcast automations can trigger on new episodes, pulling in details like title and description or building multi-touch sequences, with separate automations per show. Paid podcasts can now add audio previews of gated episodes, and a new importer migrates an entire archive from an existing RSS feed with episode files, titles, descriptions, and imagery, plus RSS redirect setup.

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Recommendations and Boosts unified into single network

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Combines Recommendations and Boosts into a single unified experience with smarter discovery, paid offers, and auto-accept/auto-deposit features. Also introduces Newsletter Lists for flexible multi-edition publishing without creating separate publications.

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The beehiiv MCP is now available to all users with no waitlist or paid plan required.

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Major upgrades to beehiiv's digital product suite. Webinars is the newest addition, allowing creators to:

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Host, distribute, and monetize your podcast directly on beehiiv. Launch, host, and monetize your podcast entirely on beehiiv with automatic distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro, and beyond. Features include:

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The first newsletter platform you can run directly from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity. Introducing the beehiiv MCP — a native integration that connects your beehiiv account to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol.

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Our most powerful automation suite yet. Introducing Automations v4 with major new features:

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Introduced On-Demand Ads — the next evolution of the beehiiv Ad Network. Premium sponsorships are now available whenever you want them with no waiting or scheduling weeks in advance.

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Introducing the brand new Media Library — a single home for all of your assets and creative. You can now create and edit assets directly inside beehiiv.

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Launched Very Good Downloads — a curated gallery of real digital product pages built entirely on beehiiv. Filter by category, browse by creator, and click through to view every page live.

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Build once. Sell everywhere. Introducing Digital Products v2 with beautifully designed product pages, native product reviews, international currency support, Apple Pay + Google Pay, discount codes, full and partial refunds, and improved notifications.

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Add multiple images within a single image element to create a fully customizable carousel. Showcase products, portfolio work, or testimonials with more visual impact without cluttering your page.

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Dynamic Content is here to make every send feel 1:1. Personalize your emails by showing different content to different readers, all within a single send. No code, no custom templating, no extra complexity.

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Personalize newsletters by showing different content to different readers within a single send. No code or custom templating required. Features include visibility settings to control which readers see specific content blocks, enabling use cases like showing different sponsors to…

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Manage your content library at scale with bulk actions across multiple posts. Select posts and choose from a range of actions: add or remove tags, add or remove authors, hide posts from your feed, or archive, unarchive, or delete posts. Perfect for cleaning up old content,…

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You can now insert elements directly from the Layers tab, giving you more precision and control over your website structure. Right-click any layer or use the insert options to add new elements exactly where you want them in your page hierarchy.

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