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March 13, 2020
We use Medium as our blog. We publish all our articles to it and also use it to keep ourselves up to date on what's going on in the world. We use it because it has some great writers who write some great articles and do with some authority. We feel the people who use Medium are professional and authoritative.
- Easy to read articles.
- Short and digestible.
- Quick summary of the highlights.
- The payment wall can be confusing.
- Hard to get traction if you're trying to go viral with an article.
- Sometimes content gets buried too easily.
October 08, 2019
Medium is the best platform for the reader/writer, as well as for the company, however, it has a spam score of 11% but still, I will recommend it because it's providing vast knowledge due to its large writer base.
- Provides a lot of reading opportunity.
- Large user base.
- Spam score is at 11%.
November 22, 2019
Medium is a publishing platform that gives your business another place to show up with thought leadership on your specific industry, products or services. It is mainly used by our sales and marketing department. We use it craft stories and insights regarding anything as it relates to our field. By doing so, it helps present us as a thought leader and potential problem solver for the reader.
- User-friendly interface and editing features
- Easy to categorize articles to ensure they are found
- Change tracker helps review changes before article is published.
- Due to how easy it is to publish, there is a lot of irrelevant noise in this space
- As with most social media sites, most users tend to troll or just be angry - could be better vetting of members
- Fake news: it is also hard to tell what is real journalism and what is opinion based
March 21, 2017
Medium.com is a part of our content marketing strategy as a clear, easy platform to publish our content to and reach a wider (yet still relevant) audience.
We create and publish content on a range of relevant sites for us, but Medium offers a simple, self editable way to build a following, engage, link back and reach audiences that might not otherwise have found our content.
We create and publish content on a range of relevant sites for us, but Medium offers a simple, self editable way to build a following, engage, link back and reach audiences that might not otherwise have found our content.
- Easy usage, clear, good features to embed media from video to image.
- If using the import tool, Medium adds rel=canonical automatically.
- Great way to engage with, tag and encourage engagement with a relevant readership.
- It can be harder to get your content seen as medium is a popular platform.
- It is still early days for us to track back success (traffic, rank etc) from posting to medium regularly. I hear tracking success outside vanity metrics can be hard for others too.
- I am yet to figure out how to create and add to magazines - these have the potential to be a good audience booster, but not too clear.
July 13, 2016
Medium is part of our content marketing strategy. We create original content that we publish on our website and on various 3rd party websites. Since cross-linking helps to increase a site's authority, we link to related content on the various sites where we publish. Medium allows us to reach an audience that might never see our website through traditional searches. It also gives us another outlet where we can publish without fear that our content will be mangled by an external editor.
- The editor is surprisingly robust and easy to use.
- Embedding media - while not intuitive - is very easy.
- The default formatting of content is visually quite pleasing. It's nice to not worry about that.
- I think the broad reach of Medium is both a strength and a weakness. It is one more place where we can reach a ton of people, and likewise one more place where we can get lost in the noise.
- The way you select topics to appear in your feed is pretty simple, but I find that I get a lot of stuff I am not remotely interested in. I don't know if that is because my topic selection was poor, or if the publishers tagged their pieces poorly, or something else.
- I am still not 100% convinced that Medium is worth our content marketing efforts. On the one hand, it is visually appealing and easy to access. On the other hand, I cannot yet tie any particular marketing success back to our efforts on Medium.
March 28, 2017
Medium is a highly visible blogging platform with an excellent feature set and UX. Medium is used as an alternative to the company's primary blog for any posts that either promote the company, blog or sometimes clients. Because Medium already has a large following the click-through and impressions of these posts can be quite high.
- User Experience - Their UX is top notch.
- Feature set - Minimal, but not overwhelmingly simple. They've found an excellent balance.
- Design.
- Low barrier to entry - All you need is a twitter account to get started.
- Honestly can't think of any.
January 22, 2016
With my writing and design, I personally use Medium as a way to gain followers. I'm able to gain followers on the site itself and it encourages readers to follow me and other writers on Twitter as well. It's been doing a nice job of building followers on both. Once I have people's attention, I hope to switch attention more into something that can be of monetary value.
- Create a following on the website.
- Gain Twitter followers.
- Provide a space where it is very simple to post writing.
- Medium might benefit from having discussion boards for writers.
- Medium could be improved if it helped compensate writers on the site.
- Right now, you need to refresh your bookmarks page to show updates. It would be nice if it updated automatically.
Medium Scorecard Summary
What is Medium?
Medium is a blogging and web publishing platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.
Categories: Blogging
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