When is the best time to publish? Wrong question.

10 charts that show the real story behind publish…

Introducing Charted

A new way to share data

Quantifying Network Effects

How Medium expands reader engagement by 64%

Double the pain, double the gain

The stories that take twice as long to write tend to perform nearly twice as well

It sounds obvious: when you spend more time working on a story, that story should perform better. But now we…

Virality lasts 4 days

Most stories on Medium (and, frankly, most things on the web in general) see a similar traffic pattern: a spike on the day you publish and share it, and then the traffic tails off. But when you dig in, the stories that go viral see something different — their spikes last nearly a week, and…