How Much Does Medium Pay for Views
I examined 25 of my best performing stories to come up with pay rates
I’ve had a curious month so far in December on Medium. I tried my best to get published during the last few weeks by exploring different kinds of articles and stories. This also came out of a desire to try to earn more under the new MPP system from Medium.
Luckily my attempts paid off! I’ve managed to be published 8 times in the last couple of weeks! It’s been fun to explore these new styles and I plan on continuing it.
One thing that was a bit unexpected though was the lack of earnings results from this. Of course, we can’t expect any single article to do well just because it’s published. But surely with 8 of them, I thought at least one of them would hit 500 or more reads.
Unfortunately, none of them have come close to that yet. So I got curious today and sat down to do some analysis on their performance vs my previous self-published articles that had similar amounts of views.
And I noticed a pattern in earnings by doing so.
Analysis
I went into my top stories of November and December and pinpointed their most-read days. I then recorded all of the available statistics for those days and compiled them into a neat…
