I was really expecting something new from the Medium team. Instead, all we got was ads, promo stories "advertorials" in old media speak, media campaigns, and subscriptions.<p>Absolutely none of those are a "better" business model for publishing - they are exactly the current business model for publishing. And they are failing.<p>The execution is key, but so far, just more of the same.
I can't say we didn't see this coming but hopefully Medium will deliver something like YouTube Red/Goole Contributor. I really like supporting content creators and boy do I hate ads.<p>Give the users a choice to choose how to support.
Paid monthly membership might be a hard sell to the end customer. In today's information overload era, running a paywalled blog might be very challenging from the perspective of generating quality, captivating content