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How Much Money Can a Two Minute Medium Story Make?
Let’s Find Out!
I’ve been writing on Medium since February 2019. Recently I wrote a humor piece about the fact that I make money on Medium:
It’s a two minute read and it did pretty well. How well?
To date? It’s made $9.24.
Although that’s not a lot of cash, I got a kick out of the fact that a story about making money on Medium was making money on Medium. So I figured I’d take it one step further and turn this thought into a Medium Experiment.
A Medium Experiment is when you publish something on the platform the goal of which is to learn something about publishing on the platform. (The one thing I learn every time? Medium Experiments are never curated.)
I like to learn about Medium by doing something and seeing what happens. For instance? Here’s what happened when I tried to meet my daily Medium Clap Quota: