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The New Reality of Writing on Medium
Adjusting to Lower Payouts in 2025
There have been a larger than normal number of posts on Medium about how little even prolific writers are making now, and while the criticism of Medium’s management is understandable there are also commonsense reasons for these changes.
We’d all gotten comfortable with the higher payments of the past, and when these got significantly reduced it caused an uproar — understandable.
What many have failed to realize is that Medium is in business to make money, and without the same or higher levels of money coming in, the money going out to writers like you and me must be reduced accordingly. Management has made it clear that investor money coming in has stopped, and that’s a very big deal.
Essentially, Medium is growing up and must now stand on it’s own two feet, not an easy task, and part of a maturing companies growing pains.
Perhaps it’s time for all of us to look at Medium through a different lens
Many of you may have already done this, but Medium will likely become just another small part of our overall social media strategy.
If you rely on Medium as the key platform to earn income, it may be time to rethink this.
