Write Boldly, Publish Freely,
Earn Without Compromise
Own the core of your content creator platform. With no lock-in and no percentage cut from your revenues.
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Build your own lists, make your own way
Why creators need a content core website…
Whether you start on Substack, YouTube, Ghost, or a podcast platform, growth requires your own foundation. PeakZebra is the only platform built to be that foundation.
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Unified Audience & Content
One contact database pulling from all your channels. One central source of truth for content development.
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Multi-Product Flywheel
Courses, memberships, consulting, downloads—connected and available. You choose what’s right for you.
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Zero-Party Personalization
Tailor site content to each visitor’s needs, based on data each user has chosen to share with you.
Your toolset
Fully Launch-Ready Platform: Everything you need to run a professional newsletter business is already in place — no plugins to hunt down, no tech stack to assemble.
Interactive Content Builder: Easily create calculators, quizzes, segmented lead flows, and other interactive experiences that keep audiences engaged and coming back.
Smart Personalization Engine: Collect and use audience data to automatically tailor what people see, turning casual readers into loyal subscribers and customers.
Centralized Style Control: Manage the look and feel of your entire site from one place — consistent branding, responsive layouts, and customizable themes at your fingertips.
Built-In Membership & Payments: Accept subscriptions, offer premium content, and segment your audience without juggling multiple tools.
Room to Grow: Expand seamlessly into memberships, courses, video content, community spaces, and more as your creative business evolves.
Full Ownership & Portability: You own your site, your content, and your audience — no platform lock-in, no surprise fees, and complete freedom to grow on your terms.
Power without grief
Get the lowest possible learning curve for easily
the most powerful platform…
About WordPress
Built for independence: WordPress lets you build on your own terms — no gatekeepers, no surprise rule changes, no one standing between you and your audience.
Grows with you: Start with a simple newsletter or blog and expand into memberships, courses, communities, or stores whenever you’re ready.
Endless creative freedom: Choose from thousands of design options and tools to make your site look and feel exactly the way you want.
You own everything: Your content, your list, your business — it’s all yours to keep and take with you wherever you go.
Plays well with others: WordPress connects easily to the tools you already use for email, payments, and marketing, so you can build the exact stack you need.
Powered by people, not platforms: It’s open source, widely supported, and constantly evolving — so your site won’t be held hostage by someone else’s business model.
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Paid or free newsletters at low cost and no revenue cut…
A better choice
Launch fast, grow faster: Your site comes fully set up and ready to use — no duct-taped tools, no weeks lost in setup.
No boxes, no ceilings: You’re not stuck with one format. Start with a newsletter, then expand into courses, memberships, or video whenever you’re ready.
Your brand front and center: No platform logos. No look-alike templates. Your voice, your design, your business.
Own it all: Your content, your audience, your revenue — and the freedom to take it all with you if you ever choose to.
Pro-level power, creator-level simplicity: All the capability of a custom tech stack — minus the tech headache.
Built for serious creators: Not a side project platform. A foundation you can build a real business on.
be the daddy of your own data
Your own Stripe and email service accounts (you’re in control).
Our approach, your thing
Your Stripe, your revenue: Payments go directly to your own Stripe account — no platform fees, no payout delays, no middleman.
Your tools, not ours: Email, analytics, payment providers — everything runs through accounts you control. If you ever leave, you take it all with you.
Your list stays yours: Subscribers, customers, and audience data live in your tools — not inside someone else’s platform.
Freedom to evolve: Switch tools, add new services, or scale your stack without being boxed in.
Real ownership, not rented access: Your business runs on infrastructure you control — not on someone else’s terms.
there’s always the next peak
Include paid courses, video, and just about anything else…
Stack your wins
Start simple, scale big: Begin with a newsletter and grow into memberships, courses, communities, or video whenever you’re ready.
One platform, endless paths: Add new offerings without rebuilding your site or migrating to another platform.
Stack new revenue streams: Layer memberships, paid content, and premium experiences on top of your existing audience.
Powered by a proven ecosystem: Behind the scenes, WordPress offers a massive library of trusted plugins for nearly anything you’d want to build.
Curated and preconfigured: PeakZebra hand-picks and sets up the best tools so you get the power of the ecosystem without the complexity.
Your brand stays front and center: Every new offering — from courses to communities — lives under your name, not ours.
Future-proof foundation: You’re building on flexible, open infrastructure designed to grow with your creative vision, not box it in.
Your Secret Advantage
PeakZebra offers the most powerful user data management and personalization tools
in the online creator ecosystem
Learn about your site visitors, your newly arrived subscribers, and longest retained customers on a continuing basis and reward them by making their experiences more and more tailored to their needs.
Meet each person where they are
Talk to people, not lists: Personalization lets every visitor feel like the message was written for them.
Boost engagement effortlessly: The right message at the right moment turns casual readers into loyal subscribers and paying customers.
Segment without the headache: Know what people care about and tailor their experience automatically — no complex funnel software required.
Automate smart moves: Trigger content, offers, and actions based on real audience behavior.
Grow more powerful over time: Start simple, then layer in richer personalization as your audience expands.
Built into the core: No extra tools, no add-ons — personalization is part of the platform from day one.
Features that scale with you
Subscriber Management
Unlock a seamless and worry-free payment experience with our subscription features.
Payments
Swift and secure payments with our cutting-edge technology for you and your customers.
Personalization
A PeakZebra killer feature– gather subscriber data, segment, and personalize each user’s web and newsletter experience.
Individual referral links
When someone passes your newsletter along and the recipient signs up, you’ll know who made the referral.
Universal Discovery
Recommend any newsletters anywhere and creators anywhere can use the same tool to recommend you.
Video Library
There’s a lot going on within a PeakZebra site, so we provide a constantly growing set of video how-to’s and explainers.
Design Libraries
Unleash your creativity with our design libraries, one for newsletter sections, one for on-site page building.
Pro Blocks
Our PZforms package gives you over 30 blocks for creating forms, displaying and managing data, and building unique UI experiences.
Testimonial
PeakZebra and Robert (the founder) are doing inventive things that really push the boundaries of what you can build with WordPress.
Matt Laue / CTO Viggio
From our blog
Product updates, growth strategies, and more.
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Non-newsletter Newsletters
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Shifting Toward a Creator Platform Core
Over the past couple of months I’ve been neck-deep in PeakZebra’s product work—refining PZForms, testing microsite workflows, and building out the managed WordPress stack that will eventually underpin everything. But as often happens when you’re talking to customers, exploring integrations, and shipping features, a bigger pattern started to emerge. Thank god for that, by the…
Just getting started: A foolproof, open-source path to newsletter success
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