Noah ChestnutApr 5
Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers
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13 Or So Questions For Medium About Their New Publisher Tools
These questions come from a place of excitement not criticism or pessimism.
- Will Medium alter its product roadmap to meet specific publisher needs? If so, how will publishers share feedback with Medium? How will Medium balance the different needs of individual publishers? How transparent will this process be?
- How will Medium support publishers who want to leave Medium?
- Who owns a publisher’s data? Medium or the publisher?
- Will publisher’s have exclusive access to data Medium collects but doesn’t share with all writers?
- How much control will publishers have over testing and modifying subscription products?
- Are publishers allowed to create more privacy policies that go beyond what Medium currently supports?
- Will Medium support publishers who want to use third-party analytics tools, such as Chartbeat or Parsely?
- Will Medium allow publishers to turn off certain brands from advertising against their content?
- Will Medium compensate publishers who bring new brands to Medium?
- Will Medium support publishers who want to use third-party email service providers, such as Mailchimp or CampaignMonitor?
- Will Medium allow publishers access to sending push notifications to Medium’s iOS and Android apps?
- Will Medium support multivariate testing tools, such as A/B headline tests?
- Will Medium’s PR team promote publications not owned by Medium? If so, how will this work?
