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Is Still Worth Writing on Medium in January 2025
Medium writer between job and passion
After a year 2024 that was quite profitable on Medium and attracted a lot of new writers, the beginning of 2025 is not as most expected, and in this article we will debate whether it is still profitable or not to start writing on Medium.
The change in Medium’s algorithm started in December, when suddenly a huge number of accounts disappeared for various reasons, leading to a dramatic drop in EPR.
Initially we hoped that it was just a passing thing that would last a few days and then things would return to normal.
Unfortunately, January will be the worst month of the month in terms of revenues in the last 2 years.
If last year I was easily reaching 100$ from the writing of the article, this month until January 21 I barely managed to reach 24$.
What is also true is the fact that I don’t write the way I used to do in the past, since I went from a few dollars per article to only a few cents, which I find extremely demotivating.
Considering that this article is about how profitable it is to write on Medium in…