Table of Contents: Analysis of Medium Featured Stories Over Time

Summary

The website content provides a comprehensive analysis of Medium's featured stories from April 2020 to April 2022, offering insights into engagement trends, best publishing days, and top writers and publications.

Abstract

The author of the website has undertaken a detailed analysis of stories featured on Medium's homepage over a two-year period. Each month, the author crunches numbers, categorizes data, and presents findings to assist the writing community in understanding engagement patterns and optimal publishing times. The reports include data on the number of featured stories, the most featured writers and publications, and the best days to publish for maximum engagement. The author encourages reader interaction by asking for claps to gauge the value of the reports and offers resources such as a YouTube channel for investment advice and platforms like ManyStories.com and Signal for story sharing and automated tweeting to increase reader engagement.

Opinions

The author believes that the monthly reports are valuable to writers and uses reader feedback (claps) to determine the continuation of these analyses.
There is an emphasis on the importance of data in understanding how to succeed on Medium, with a focus on the benefits of being featured.
The author promotes the use of additional tools and platforms, such as ManyStories.com and Signal, to enhance story visibility and engagement.
The inclusion of a YouTube channel subscription link suggests the author values diverse content distribution and community building across different media.
The repeated calls to action for clapping and sharing indicate the author's desire for community engagement and support for the writing community.

This is a living document that will point you to my latest and past reports.

Each month, I analyze all of the stories that Medium’s editorial team chose to feature on the their homepage. After doing a whole bunch of number crunching, groupings, and graphing, I present my findings publicly for us all, the writing community to explore together.

This document will serve as an index to make it easy for everyone to browse the time periods they care about.

Before we get into the data, please take a second to clap for this story to let me know it’s valuable to you. I only want to continue reporting these stats if they are of great value to writers like you and me. 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼 👏🏻👏

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Table of Contents: Analysis of Medium Featured Stories Over Time

This is a living document that will point you to my latest and past reports.

April 2022

Your Medium Stories Should be This Long — April 2022 Data

I analyzed all 262 of the stories featured by Medium in April 2022 and found the best day to publish for engagement.

March 2022

The Most Featured Publications on Medium in March 2022 — An Analysis

Of all 307 of the stories featured by Medium in July 2022, these were the publications they were sourced from.

The Best Days to Have Published a Story on Medium in March 2022 — Data Analysis

I analyzed all 307 of the stories featured by Medium in August 2020 and found the best day to publish for engagement.

August 2020

The Top 20 Most Featured Writers on Medium in August 2020 — An Analysis

Of all 485 of the stories featured by Medium in August 2020, these were the writers they were most sourced from.

The Best Days to Have Published a Story on Medium in August 2020 — Data Analysis

I analyzed all 485 of the stories featured by Medium in Augustt 2020 and found the best day to publish for engagement.

July 2020 — Analysis of 460 featured stories

Everything I Learned About Featured Stories on Medium in July 2020

Using data aggregated from all 460 featured stories in June.

June 2020 — Analysis of 485 featured stories

Everything I Learned About Featured Stories on Medium in June 2020

Using data aggregated from all 485 featured stories in June.

May 2020 — Analysis of 560 featured stories

Everything I Learned About Featured Stories on Medium in May 2020

Using data aggregated from all 560 featured stories in May.

April 2020 — Analysis of 510 featured stories

Everything I Learned About Featured Stories on Medium in April 2020

Using data aggregated from 510 stories.

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