The Medium Quick Reference Guide®
Chapter 1: What Is Medium
Find out why people are publishing 47,000 new stories daily.
What Is Medium?
I gathered some facts about Medium.com to give you an idea of the size and scope of the blogging platform and the types of writers that show up daily if you’re unfamiliar with the site.
Medium is an American online publishing platform founded by Evan “Ev” Williams. He launched it in 2012, with 179 employees as of June 2022. Tony Stubblebine is the current Chief Executive Officer at the helm. There are 47,000 new stories published daily, with 328,000 by week’s end. You should be able to find a community of writers that love to write about what you love. Medium currently has over 60 million monthly active users.
The types of stories published on Medium are vast, from Life, Startup, Blockchain, Poetry, Politics, Health, History, Love, Horror, Travel, Technology, you name it.
Much of Medium’s content is free to peruse; some remain behind a paywall. Medium has 700,000 subscribers paying either $5 per month or $60 per year. You can either create a free account and read up to three stories per month, or you can subscribe.
