Medium Boost Nomination Program into Editor Partner Program 2026?
Now we're talking - What is actually happening?
Just think who will be invited and set the standard for the Editor Partner Program?
Boost Nomination Program ending on May 31, Editor Partner Program beta starts June 1, do you see what is going on?
Up until this release of ending the boost program, I heard Medium was doing great with it.
Medium is trying to scale outside of Medium, but the boost program itself is very limited to within Medium. Or I should say, within a limited set of publications, which we can assume most of them are invited to this new Editor Partner Program as a first beta user.
But the first thing that Medium misses is all the other publications and those out there that they barely look at are not being accounted for in terms of how this new program is being shaped.
I called it the Boosted Program 2.0 because it’s the same group of writers and publications that is being weighted the most out of this.
Please make some room for the average writers/editors/publications.
At the end of the day, the earnings will still tank overall because this does not increase the chance of attracting more readers; instead, now the funding pool will have to cut funding from somewhere to fund the additional 25% earnings from somewhere or someone.
There’s no free lunch, even when Medium says it does not impact the writer who shares the earnings potential.
So, who is actually paying for all this funding if Medium is not about to grow at a rate that can cover these additional 25% earnings?
I guess that is also why it has to be selective of publications that are going to be in this program.
The question I have to ask is, if the group of publications is helping Medium grow, then why didn’t the Boost program work?
Either this will cut costs for Medium or Medium thinks this will magically improve the writers and editors’ articles that would attract more readers to sign up for membership.
This is a very big assumption because the ending of the boost program is a clear sign that something is not working.
Medium says it will still have staff going out to look for articles to be boosted. Or does it really mean it will focus more on the publications that are in this Editor Partner Program, i.e., Boost Program 2.0?
Just that this time, Medium will have direct control, and everything will be much more unknown, as you can not even submit an article to get boosted; now you just sit and wait for random articles to be boosted.
This entire process is being cut off; I hope Medium saves time and money here. But I don’t think it will be sustainable in the long run.
Let’s say there are 10 publications in the new program with 30 editors. It’s really not about the editors, but the number of writers and stories being published in a publication that is in this new program.
If each publication gets a few boosted articles, with the editors generating an additional 25% earnings from each article, this number can quickly add up.
Yet, the issue here is what about the publications that are not in the new program, will they be automatically disqualified from boosted articles?
Who knows what Medium has to say is that they learned a lot from the boost program, where they worked closely with the editors, while most editors are saying they can’t get access to Medium for the most part.
I’ll leave it here, to be continued after Medium comes up with the next update after their beta testing.
Thanks for Reading
In case you missed this update from Medium.
An update on the Boost Nomination Program, and what’s next
This story was originally published on [Medium] and is cross-posted here for a wider audience.
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