The Year’s Most Read Stories from People of Medium
You spend a week jotting down notes, researching, polling friends and doing three rounds of editing before finally hitting [Publish]. You eagerly check your stats page and… meh. Ugh. Oh well; you move on. You come up with a quick, fun post and slapdashedly throw that up, barely spellchecking it. You don’t even bother looking back on it until a day or so later and… yep: TONS of reads (like exponentially more in just a day). Alas, such is the Internet.
The above is not allegorical, by the way. It happened to me. After writing a much longer read, I got a clever idea for a satirical post. I stopped at the end of typing my opening graph and thought: yeah, that’s good. Witty, to the point, tossed in an emoji for punctuation; done. (No joke: It took me longer to Photoshop the artwork.)
BOOM: my highest-read post of the YEAR. Hilarious. It made me wonder what others were thinking about their Big Read for 2015. Were they proud of it? just okay with it? or maybe slightly embarrassed about even sharing it?
Here are the brave souls on People of Medium QA who dared to speak on behalf of their top-read story of 2015:
Justin Cox’s most read story this year was fitting for people of Medium:
While not her most recommended, Veronica Montes’ most read story of the year also has an impressive 86% read ratio:
Abbaty Kori’s most read story was about being rejected:
Live This 1’s most read story this year was a response to the Editor@Coffeelicious’ writing prompt for October:
Heidi E. Carpenter’s most read story was about a horse:
While it wasn’t one of his many short stories, Tom Farr’s most read story this year was about productivity:
Katy Levinson’s most read story was actually the first one she ever published on Medium:
Grey Drane’s most read story was about writing tools:
Lisa Renee’s most read story was a long read about homeschooling:
Thomas Despin’s most read (English) story was about working remotely:
Todd Herskovitz’ most read story was a two-minute work of fiction:
Tell us YOUR most read story!
(Head to your desktop Stats page and click on “Reads” above your list of stories just under the bar graph — to sort your list by most reads — and share a few words about your top post in Responses below.)
