The New Medium Partner Program is Bad for Quality Writing! (2023)
The disadvantages of Medium’s new remuneration scheme and how Medium’s CEO Tony Stubblebine answered my concerns.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How was the remuneration (2019–2023)?
↳ Referral program
↳ Reading time
How is the remuneration now?
Why do some high-quality articles receive less money?
↳ Lower read-through rate
↳ Less engagement
↳ Boosted less often
How does Medium’s CEO Tony Stubblebine think about it?
What should be changed?
Conclusion
Resources
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Introduction
Medium introduced a new remuneration for users that are part of the Medium partner program. Their target was to take incentives from click-baiting and AI-generated content and give it to human writers that create high-quality articles. In my opinion, these are the right intentions but their new system disadvantages some groups. For people…