Time Required For Curation of your Articles.

Curated articles get more views up to 250k!

Curation is the process where, Medium Staff Editor reads your article and send them to all medium readers worldwide. Isn’t It great, you get free promotion from Medium. Curated articles can get more views. Some even get more than 250k.

So, medium staff editors decide the fate of your article. Whether to publish it on homepage, which will lead to tremendous views or keep it in your profile only.

How to find whether medium staff has selected your article or not. It’s easy you can see it in stats of that story.

So, I have posed an article on 6 July, 2020. You can See a message below my title We are processing this story. Hang tight! It means Medium staff haven’t read my article yet. They notify us whether they have selected this article for curation or not.

I have done lots of research on this topic, curation. Many of you will ask, So when will the medium staff Editor read my article and decide my fate?

Is there a defined time after which Medium staff Editors read my article? The Answer is Yes! Let’s dive in and see how much time does it actually It.

It Completely depends On Your Publication.

So, Lots of writers post their various articles in different publications and Publication matters a lot. Trust me.

Let’s see some interesting data Regarding All Publications available on Medium.

Tier 1 Publications :- Publications owned by Medium Itself. Example Publications Like OneZero , Elemental Editors , ZORA Editors etc.

Time Required for Curation — 0 seconds.

Yes, it’s true. When Tier 1 accepts your article for publication, they are curated 100% right after the publication publishes it. It is owned by medium itself, hence they have a complete trust on things they approve.

Most common reason for this is that, They accept only high quality content. Their rejection rate is 98.2% .Hence, they publish only Best articles.

Tier 2 Publications :- Private Publications with more than 100k Followers. Example Better Marketing, The Startup, Toward data science etc.

Time required for curation — 2 to 4 hours / some times 1 day.

You can open your homepage, you can see all the articles over there. They all are curated by medium, except the ones you are following. Some are just published 3 hours ago and It appears on Main page of Medium. Curation becomes more easy ones you publish your article in this publications.

In fact, Better Marketing Publication gets 95% of published articles curated by Medium Staff Editors.

Rejection rate of Tier 2 publications is 70 %. Hence, they mostly accept quality articles only leading into curation of that article.

Tier 3 Publications :- Private Publications with less than 100k Followers. Example All the publications you see with less number of followers. There are lots and lots of Tier 3 publications on medium.

Time Required for curation — 2 to 3 weeks/Also Depends on your personal followers.

As I showed You, This message We are processing this story. Hang tight! on my article. I posted that article In Illumination Publication. Hence, it always takes 2 weeks for me to get notified about my curation results.

Acceptance rate is approximately 80 % of tier 3 publication. Hence, quality content is not maintained in this publication and large volume of articles are posted daily by Tier 3 publications. Resulting in more time to reach Medium staff Editors.

Curation rate is only up to 10%, of this type publications.

Let’s summarize, Create only quality content and try to publish it mostly to Tier 1 and Tier 2 publications. Curation will help you to reach more audience on medium. It will help you to get more views and also more followers if readers like your content.

Some Tier 2 publications also pay you when they accept your articles to publish. Maintaining quality is necessary to survive on medium.

Followers also matters in some cases. So, if you liked the content and you want to read more such content, I do research regularly. So, I don’t mind if you Follow me.