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I Found the Top 5 Publications and Their Most-Read Stories on Medium.

I did research for January 2024 and I didn’t expect that!

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Are you submitting to the right publications? How many visitors do they have monthly? Do they have the right audience for your niche?

I did some research.

And I’m surprised to find out who’s on the list of the…

TOP 5 Publications on Medium

top publications according to Semrush, ordered by monthly visits in Jan’24 are:

This is Who Your Medium Readers Are?

What is their behavior, and what are the most read publications and more insights

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the Top 5 Publications according to Semrush, ordered by monthly visits in Jan’24 are:

Illumination — 2.2 million visits
The Startup — 1,9 million visits
The Authority Magazine — 1,2 million visits
Geek Culture — 1,2 million visits
javarevisited — 925k visits

Millions of visits monthly! That’s huge!

And I’m exited to see Illumination leading this chart! I knew they’re popular, but didn’t expect them to be in TOP 1!

The good news: I’m already a writer there, so I should be good to go, I thought.

NO. Not really…Having lots of views, doesn’t mean it’s right for my niche!

Lesson learned from this research:

make data driven decisions.
validate ideas.
analyze and revisit past choices.

This is what I mean.

The most read stories on Illumination

The most read stories on The Startup

I could’t firnd data for the Authority Magazine, so moving on to the

Most read stories on Geek Culture

Moving on to the

Most read stories on javarevisited

The Bottom Line

I have mixed feelings about Illumination…I started there because I saw lots of other successful writers submit, but never thought about niche or audience. Fool!

Key take-away: I’ll make better choices about which articles to submint where in order to reach who!

And I’ll consider new publications.

Anyway…

I hope this research gave you some food for thought about what’s popular on Medium and what are readers looking for in some of the publications.

And by the way, let me know if you’d like more stories like this in the future.

Thanks for Reading!

Yana

P.S. I created one more reason to become a Friend of Medium. Learn more here!

P.S.S. DOWNLOAD the FREE Guide on How to Make Money Online with AI for Creators.

P.S.S.S. Join the CREATIVETECH HUB and get access to the entire library of tools made for creators! Find it on Gumroad and Patreon!