Free Post blogging It's 2019, and you still need to own your content Beware the roach motels of the platforms - if content is your business, you still need to own and publish it yourself.
Free Post medium Medium hunting for a magazine acquisition — and a sustainable business model Is Medium slowly becoming the Huffington Post circa 2008? It's hunt for more content suggests it might be.
Free Post medium Medium: destroyer of journalism Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price.
Free Post medium Medium kills the reader memberships of its final partners Medium continues the cull of all the features that made it a worthwhile platform to build a business on.
Free Post medium Medium goes all in on being a social network for content Medium is leaving custom URLS behind - and that makes it a dangerous place for publishers.
Free Post blog platforms Is Medium aiming to be the Facebook of long-form writing? Stowe Boyd has some serious questions about the future of Medium: And what about Medium? Are we better off because of Medium’s mechanisms to suggest to us what to
Free Post blogging Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment. This morning, I’ve written a 2,000 word blog post about journalism and publishing strategy. But, you’ll note, this is the first blog post on here today. What’
Free Post blog platforms Medium: a post-advertising business? Interesting summation of Medium’s current business philosphy from Ev Williams: If remuneration is not part of the equation for why you publish, I can’t imagine a stand-alone web
Free Post dickbars These are the days of the dickbar You know those little floating sharebars that appear on sites like Medium? You know, they look like this: Well, John Gruber is no fan: I’m sure “engagement” does register
Free Post How The Economist plays the platform game How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
Free Post Bobbie Johnson Medium, serialization and the death of Matter Talking of Medium, as we were, Matt Locke had a great idea on how Medium could bring a new but familiar business model to the journalism web: There is another,
Free Post business models Medium is struggling to break out of the tech niche Interesting analysis of Medium’s audience from Frederic Filloux, which I missed last month: This is both good and bad news. On the plus side, Medium mostly addresses the tech
Free Post medium Medium's strategy shift comes as surprise to revenue partners It looks like Medium rather botched the effective end of its publisher program, which included a beta of its ad-driven revenue service. Elizabeth Spiers is one of the people behind
Free Post advertising Medium's direction shift: why we should welcome it Yesterday, the news broke that Medium has shifted direction, and is laying off some people, and bashed out a quick post. With a night’s sleep (but not a good
Free Post business models Medium: big job cuts and a direction change Ev Williams: I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other
