Why Curation Is Less Important on Medium now
Make Peace with the new medium changes
Medium made big changes in the first week of October month. Medium Staff want medium as the more relational platform.
As the medium is social media site, Medium made some changes to cope with its social media tag. 20 thousand Stories post on medium daily. Medium has a staff of 85 members. Is it possible to read everyone’s story?
Medium’s new update in which medium said it wants to create more reader and writer relationships. Medium is implementing the same strategy, like other social media site use in their medium feed.
Why Medium is becoming like YouTube
Medium is trying to make its front page more like YouTube. When you open your YouTube, you get videos according to your watching history. You get videos of YouTuber who you watched his video’s irrespective you follow him or not.
Let consider YouTube channel as a publication on medium and we write as a content creator. On YouTube, when you follow YouTuber, you get his videos on his feed.
What it shows. Social media platforms are becoming more relational now. Now, on medium, you will get your feed related to what you read previously and what you follow. Medium has a strong algorithm. They will take care of it.
The medium front page you see faces of writer you follow and the latest content from them. It Means followers are more important for medium.
Let us take an example. If Jenny loves reading romance stories, she will follow romance story writers and publication. Some writer writes about the same topic on the medium daily. She will open the writer’s profile again and again, and unknowingly she will create a relationship with the writer.
Means a medium reader can tell their favourite writer's name. It is the same method that the medium has implemented as Quora. Quora has some popular writer and reader read their every post. We call this a social media relationship.
Creating a social media relationship will help medium to grow as reading and learning platform.
Why the writers should not worry about curation
I never worried about curation and now medium also doesn’t want curation as a hurdle between reader and writer. If you are writing quality and informative content for readers, then they will follow you.
Look for 1000 loyal followers. Rest will come behind. Write to them and they will follow you everywhere on social media. When you make loyal followers on the medium, you don’t need the support of curation. Medium algorithm peak your story when it gets more views. The medium algorithm is non-human, it doesn’t see curated and non-curated when it picks your story to see more readers. Distribution is human intervention.
New medium changes will help writers who struggle with curation. Now writers can write for their tribe.
But medium still continues to curate stories for further distribution. But start writing for your followers to make 1000 loyal one. You will see your graph increasing vertically.
How recent changes will affect earning
Recent changes will affect top medium earners. as the medium changed their front page readers will read more from their following which can reduce the reading time of medium self-promoted stories.
But writers who have more than 1oK followers will need not to worry. But we can see a massive decline in medium earning of top earners. Medium earning will now become less fluctuating.
But for new writers, it is not good news. They have to struggle to gain a new follower. But consistency will help them with recent changes.
4 Strategies medium writer should apply now
Post daily
To keep up your followers engaging with your content, you need to post daily. So readers can see your face daily. If you're posting at least 3 times a week, it will help you with recent changes.
write on one topic
Readers will read the content more if you write about one specific topic. Reader read about the same topic again and again. It is basic human nature. We like what entertains us. Same as with medium readers.
Share on social media
Sharing content on social media helps you to get more exposure. You can share it everywhere. Many writers don’t share their work. Tell people to read your work. In this way, you can grow.
build email list
Start building an email list from day one. It is the best marketing strategy. It will help you build a relationship with your tribe and you can sell more products.
I see medium changes with positive aspects. Changes are inevitable. We should follow them.
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