Beware the roach motels of the platforms - if content is your business, you still need to own and publish it yourself.
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A collection of 33 posts
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.
Medium: destroyer of journalism
Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price.
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.
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.
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 read, or would we be better off with thousands of…
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’s going on? Well, Medium recently expanded their partner program,…
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 site serving you better than Medium in terms of cost,…