FAQs About Active Publications
Adding your publication to the collection, publication criteria, and the rationale behind Active Publications
What is Active Publications?
The Problem — There are over 15,000 publications on Medium. Based on my research, the vast majority of these publications are dead. Some of these publications left Medium as their hosting platform during one of the many pivots Medium has made. Others were created by writers who for one reason or another simply stopped maintaining the publications. While many of these “dead publications” contain useful posts, they make it much harder for writers to find active publications.
What is an active publication? There is no one definition, but for our purposes, an active publication is one that has produced at least one new post in the past month and is accepting of new writers.
Taking this a step further, we created Active Publications to help filter out publications that contain new articles, but are not looking for new writer article submissions.
One of the criteria we use to determine if a publication is truly open to new writers, is we look at whether a publication contains posts from at least three unique authors.
