Your Medium Stories Should be This Long — April 2022 Data
I analyzed all 262 of the stories featured by Medium in April 2022 and found the best story duration to publish for engagement.
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23 min readMay 3, 2022
In this report, we will explore the best reading time for a story on Medium during April, 2022. I hope that the information shared here helps you optimize the choices you make in your writing journey.
Towards the middle of this report, you can find a bar graph of engagement for each of the story duration groups.
Who am I?
I’m a software engineer who knows how to obtain, process, and report data efficiently. As a writer, I’ve set my eyes on Medium’s featured stories to help myself and other writers understand what Medium’s editorial team prioritizes. I will do my best to summarize my findings in a series of articles. You can follow me and the Writers Guild publication to stay alert.
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