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I appreciate your comment - and I admire your belief in Medium's ability to go back to the right path, but why do you think Medium will be able to get people to
by xNeil 4y ago
I appreciate your comment - and I admire your belief in Medium's ability to go back to the right path, but why do you think Medium will be able to get people to its platform, considering Substack is already on the right path?
As far as I can see, Medium's unique competitive advantage is its recommendations - most of your competitors are individual tools, but do not have Medium-level recommendation and content discovery systems. Substack, though, seems to me to be on the right track - good recommendation system and good content creation tools.
Why do you think Medium will recover to go back to the right path? How do you know it's not too late?
- tonystubblebine 4y agoSubstack is on the right path for them. Medium needs to get back on the right path for us. They are doing a great job of unbundling traditional media. They are the most credible threat to the NYT digital subscription powerhouse. But that unbundling only works for some authors, i.e. that's why top Substack authors left and formed their own bundle (every.to). We are in the job of rebundling. It's one price for everything. And that works for a different set of authors and publications. This fits much more what I want to see in publishing. I want a place that is friendly to subject matter experts. That is most people here and the thing that makes you a subject matter expert is that you are doing interesting work, not trying to build an audience.