{"id":5846,"date":"2016-06-07T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:07:16","slug":"linked-mediums-latest-intriguing-publishing-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/linked-mediums-latest-intriguing-publishing-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Medium\u2019s latest intriguing publishing experiment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2016\/05\/mediums-latest-intriguing-publishing-experiment\/\">via SixColors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Medium\u2019s membership program, which it\u2019s carefully not labeling a subscription, is available to its early partners. It lets a publisher set a single, recurring monthly tier, and Medium collects the money. A publisher can mark specific posts for members only. Medium will charge a 20% fee, but pass through only the processing fees for the first 500 members. So a publication charging $5 a month would pay 8% and net $2,300 a month for its first 500 members, and 20% to net $4 a member thereafter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe that publishers who brave the storm will be happy they remained independent. Medium is appealing because for-profit publishers are losing a ton of money right now but you give up far too much control to switch and I\u2019m not convinced any significant amount of people will pay for content.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will. The majority won\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via SixColors: Medium\u2019s membership program, which it\u2019s carefully not labeling a subscription, is available to its early partners.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-30T23:59:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"6acfa655-c6e6-4659-96eb-39de67cc1a00","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-30T23:59:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aas-mVcbmRlmW6zneZ8waAA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1wi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5860,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/linked-medium-a-publishers-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":5846,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Medium: A Publisher&#8217;s Perspective&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via MondayNote: Our findings were actually consistent with those of Medium\u2019s own data scientist Mike Sall who notes, in this post: Overall, 74% of posts are under 3 minutes long and 94% are under 6 minutes long. 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People were largely not finding these stories\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6699,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/linked-medium-shifts\/","url_meta":{"origin":5846,"position":2},"title":"Linked: Medium Shifts","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium Blog: Upon further reflection, it\u2019s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn\u2019t serve people. In fact, it\u2019s not designed to. 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