A part of a member’s subscription fee directly helps the writers they read, and a part of it helps Medium stay ad-free.This money comes directly from the members’ subscription fees. Nobody knows exactly how the earnings are calculated, but it has to do with the reading time of paid Medium members and their engagement. Writers in the Partner Program make money on Medium when paid members read those stories.Free Medium members can read up to three paywalled stories per month. Paid subscribers can read unlimited stories on Medium.(More about the Partner Program and how it works shortly.) You can earn money with your writing if you join the Medium “Partner Program” and lock your stories behind a paywall.All you have to do is create an account and start reading other people’s articles or write your own articles (known as “stories” within the Medium ecosystem.) It is supported by a user subscription model. Medium is delightfully an ad-free platform.The following set of key points pretty much sum up how Medium works: Screenshot of Medium’s homepage for a (logged-out) visitor. So now, Medium is this social media platform for medium (or long) form articles with its built-in audience (well over 100 million readers, according to Medium’s homepage) and a proprietary algorithm that shows content based on what it thinks a certain user (reader) would like. (Fun fact, that’s actually where the name “Medium” came from!) So, as you’d expect, Medium shares many similarities with Twitter, but like Blogger, it was built for medium to long-form content. Ev also founded Blogger-one of the earliest blogging platforms. Medium was founded by former Twitter co-founder and CEO-Evan Clark Williams, mostly known as just Ev Williams. Writers can earn money from the platform when they meet certain conditions. Anyone can create an account on Medium and start using it. Medium is a place to read articles and write them too. I have tons to share about the platform, but more importantly, I hope to give you a starting point in case you’re thinking about writing on Medium too. Nothing huge, but enough to motivate me… (over $800 in the last ~six months.) As I said, not a lot, but the steady increase in $$ from month to month has been enough to make me believe in the potential of this platform. I can write whatever, experiment with topics and forms, and what’s more, I make a nice little side income while at it. Once I hit the coveted six-figure earnings from this blog and a lot of my blogging and sales activities were automated, I decided it was time to take Medium more seriously, and I’m so glad I did. I would publish one or two stories every couple of months, get a few reads, make a few bucks, and contemplate being more serious once I had this blog under control.Īnd that’s exactly what I did in June 2022. And that’s a testament to how much I enjoy that platform even to this day. However, even when I was focused on The Side Blogger, I never really stopped writing on Medium completely. So, I chose to grow this blog, and I don’t regret that decision even for a second. I was new to writing back then, couldn’t focus on growing two things. Did you know? I started writing on Medium even before I launched this blog.
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