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Just in case anyone was wondering, I gave Medium a shot to see if I could make money off it in the past two years. The answer is a resounding NO.

If you are writing on Medium you are definitely doing it for other reasons. for me it is just an easy way to get some thoughts or new out quickly to help people with their cybersecurity efforts.

Initially I started publishing pretty much daily and started getting money from referrals. That was definitely the most lucrative. Initially my income rose bit by bit in an incremental way. I thought, well maybe if I kept it up I would make enough to cover at least some of my bills in between gigs or with my extra time.

The first thing Medium did to kill that was to kill the referral program. That was the only thing with decent returns of the things they were paying for. Everything else is so meager it’s not worth the time. I was still making a few bucks from past referrals but then they cut that too.

I basically stopped writing every day as a result. It’s just not worth it. Since someone just liked one of my posts about Medium payouts I thought I’d let everyone know that — you are 100% definitely not going to make money off Medium. Look for other options.

Unless you consider $30 per month to be a good payout for a bunch of posts, or you are into gaming the system and writing clickbait material. I don’t do any of that so maybe someone who is spewing garbage onto the platform has found a way to make it work.

Beyond that, AI is now taking all the articles Google returns and summarizing them at the top of the Google search results. No need to even click on the articles! Nice for searchers. Terrible for content creators. No way to make money unless your website offers something beyond that summarized answer that people need. Only then will they have any reason to click on your pages.

Luckily I put up a paywall befor the AI craze. However, now there are scammer sites that basically break through the Medium paywall and publish your stuff freely anyway.

So yeah, there’s really no point, unless you have some other reason for writing beyond the money you can make on Medium. I just wanted to add this to my thread on Medium stats in case anyone is still searching on it and running across it.

I just write to help people out who may know and follow me specifically because of the information I publish, not to make money from Medium. Someday I may move the blog but for now Medium is an easy vehicle to get the word out about any security vulnerabilities or issues I want to share.

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Teri Radichel | © 2nd Sight Lab 2023

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