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What is Medium?

Medium is a blogging and web publishing platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.

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Medium is a highly popular and versatile platform that offers a range of use cases for users across various industries. Professionals and …
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What is Medium?

Medium is a blogging and web publishing platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.

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Medium is a blogging and web publishing platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Medium are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Medium is a highly popular and versatile platform that offers a range of use cases for users across various industries. Professionals and authoritative writers rely on Medium to publish original content and reach a wider audience, thereby increasing the authority of their websites. The platform enables users to cross-link their articles on different websites, enhancing visibility and attracting new readers. This feature has been well-received by users who appreciate Medium as a blogging platform because it provides a simple and easy way to publish articles without the risk of external editing.

Companies also utilize Medium as part of their content marketing strategy to showcase thought leadership and engage with their target audience. By leveraging the self-editable platform provided by Medium, sales and marketing departments can craft stories and insights relevant to their industry, positioning themselves as thought leaders. The excellent feature set and user experience offered by Medium make it an ideal choice for companies looking for a highly visible platform to promote their brand and blog posts.

Individuals interested in growing their online presence find value in Medium's large following. They leverage the platform to gain followers, increase their online presence, and encourage readers to follow them on social media platforms. Additionally, Medium provides a valuable space for users to share knowledge and contribute insights, driving the overall growth of their respective fields.

Overall, Medium serves as an effective tool for users across different domains, allowing them to expand their reach, engage with readers, showcase expertise, and contribute to the online community.

Robust and Easy to Use Editor: Reviewers have found the editor provided by Medium to be surprisingly robust and easy to use. Many users appreciated the user-friendly interface and editing features, which made it easy for them to navigate and create content. Visually Pleasing Default Formatting: The default formatting of content on Medium has been praised by reviewers for being visually pleasing. Users appreciated not having to worry about formatting their articles from scratch, allowing them to focus on their writing. Easy Embedding of Media: While embedding media may not have initially been intuitive, many users found it very easy to do on Medium. They also highlighted the good features available for embedding various types of media such as videos and images. These three pros were mentioned frequently in user reviews, highlighting the robustness and ease-of-use of the editor, the visually appealing default formatting, and the simplicity of embedding media on Medium.

Weak Content Curation: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the topic selection in their Medium feed, stating that they often receive content that they are not interested in. It is unclear whether this is due to their own topic selection or if the publishers tagged their pieces poorly.

Limited Marketing Success Tracking: Several reviewers have mentioned that they are unsure if Medium is worth their content marketing efforts as they have not been able to tie any particular marketing success back to their efforts on the platform. This lack of measurable results has left them questioning the effectiveness of using Medium for content promotion.

Difficulty Gaining Traction and Visibility: Many users have found it challenging to gain traction and visibility for their articles on Medium due to various factors. They mention that the broad reach of the platform can be a double-edged sword, as while it allows them to reach a large audience, it also means that their content can easily get lost in the noise. Additionally, they note that content on Medium often gets buried quickly, making it harder for their own articles to be seen.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I use Medium as a portfolio for the various areas I've worked in and can teach. I also use it as a source for a "Publication" I've created, including others in the community and focusing on a subset of a subject. This is a way of showing prospective employers in my life that I have the necessary knowledge without subjecting them to a short and uninteresting resume.
Kevin O'Grady | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Lucy Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Jack Edward Heald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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