Medium’s Best-Kept Secrets: Publications That Pay For Articles

Did you know Medium is not simply an algorithm-driven platform?

OneZero, Elemental, Gen, Zora, Forge, Human Parts, Marker, Level, and Heated.

The titles included above? They are publications owned by Medium, and pay directly for their content.

They are, to some, Medium’s best-kept secrets.

I’m not talking about the usual algorithm-driven payouts from your Medium Partner Program. I’m talking potentially several hundred dollars an article regardless of views, reads, likes and time on your article spent by a reader.

Really. And there’s more.

Some of those titles, at least, have been hiding in plain sight and are easily clickable in the band atop your Medium homescreen:

If, like me until recently, you have never clicked on that band … you have no excuse now.

The publications immediately visible atop the homescreen are OneZero, Elemental, Gen, Zora, Forge, and Human Parts.