{"id":6699,"date":"2017-02-27T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2017-02-01T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:04:07","slug":"linked-medium-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/linked-medium-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Medium Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3270,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blog.medium.com\\\/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.9hvwbub4f&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250530060152\\\/https:\\\/\\\/blog.medium.com\\\/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:35:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-25 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03:36:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3274,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a#.8tvt2g56z&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20181228193559\\\/https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:36:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:36:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.medium.com\/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.9hvwbub4f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Medium Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other \u201ccontent\u201d we all consume on a daily basis is paid for\u200a\u2014\u200adirectly or indirectly\u200a\u2014\u200aby corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals. And it is measured, amplified, and rewarded based on its ability to do that. Period. As a result, we get\u2026well, what we get. And it\u2019s getting worse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2017\/01\/05\/mediumsPivot.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Scripting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Medium pivots, a big story in the tech press, but the reports center on the company and the publishers, but little focus on the users and their interests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Medium has zigged and zagged, admirable as a company. I envy their freedom. When I was an entrepreneur, I got one shot at success, no pivots. It must be nice to have the freedom to change course several times, with years of runway at a significant burn rate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2017\/01\/09\/weShouldntWaitForMedium.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More on Scripting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, all the content that continues to pour into Medium is at risk due to the missing business model. And this is where I part with Filloux. I wonder why he only discusses Medium&#8217;s interest and the interest of its shareholders. What about his interest and that of other people who use Medium as their publishing platform? Is this the best way?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mondaynote.com\/a-new-model-for-medium-3ad7cc638c13#.v1nay6gyc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Monday Note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Here are the keys findings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The total reach for publications with more than a thousand followers is almost 7 millions readers; (these includes duplicates, i.e. readers who follow more than one publication).<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>20% of publications account for 75% of the followers.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Only one publication has more than a million followers; it\u2019s the publisher\/incubator Matter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Publications related to the tech sphere (including some in the \u201cuncategorized\u201d section), account for half of all followers.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This is both good and bad news. On the plus side, Medium mostly addresses the tech elite. This is a premium audience, attracted by quality, more likely to pay for information; on the supply side, publishers on Medium are more likely to go for a revenue sharing coming from subscriptions, as opposed to see their beloved publication infested with toe fungus ads.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nOn the minus side, as opposed to Buzzfeed, for instance, Medium is not a mass\/general public destination, and will never be, even if it claims 60 millions monthly unique readers. This puts a ceiling on its potential for advertising growth\u200a\u2014\u200aanyway a broken model, according to Ev Williams.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a#.8tvt2g56z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via 500ish Words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The numbers speak for themselves. 2 billion words written on Medium in the last year. 7.5 million posts during that time. 60 million monthly readers now. Pageviews galore. So step 2 is simply to slap some banner ads on the site, while step 3 is to profit, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The reality\u200a\u2014\u200aagain, perhaps hard to see in the midst of such numbers\u200a\u2014\u200ais that it behooves no one to simply continue down a path if you know the end result isn\u2019t ultimately going to be successful. And so, the prudent yet extremely difficult move is to swallow your prideful metrics and course correct.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And really, it\u2019s just a decision to get back on the road that Medium initially set out upon.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have read a lot of opinions on the changes Medium is embarking upon. I have thoughts but the fate of Medium doesn\u2019t impact me. I don\u2019t write for direct-revenue. I see the blog as a running resume, a way to express myself, share my adventures, a personal diary out in public and a way for me to run a server and tinker and learn new technologies. The biggest reason I write is because I\u2019ve completely opted out of Social media except to read Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>Medium could fail and that wouldn\u2019t affect me but I want Medium to succeed because someone has to make publishing better. I don\u2019t want Medium to be a silo but I do want them to enable great writers to earn a living and find readers. Medium needs to succeed to prove to us that media can be democratic.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Medium is the end-all to publishing but I think they picked up in a way that Blogger and WordPress never did. I\u2019m thrilled that Ev is taken a higher-ground and I hope he builds a lasting company and legacy that impact us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Medium Blog: Upon further reflection, it\u2019s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-02-27T19:04:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"93def6a5-fc4d-4acb-bf37-0b337bbd929b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-02-27T19:04:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ak972pfxNSsu_Nwsze72Smw","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":"middle","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1K3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5456,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/linked-anywhere-but-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":6699,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Anywhere but Medium&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Dave Winer\u2019s Scripting: I guess the thought is that it's wasteful to start a blog if you're not sure you're going to post that often. 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