Lydia Gilbertson's Posts

You’ve likely read an article on Medium before, even if you didn’t notice the boxed “M” hanging out in the corner of your screen. The platform houses tons of popular content created by both its users and publications alike. A place for thoughtful, long-form, niche and technical content, it’s not surprising that everyone from CEOs to freelance journalists posts there regularly. Increasingly, businesses and publications have been using this platform for their content distribution. With all that in mind, is Medium the right way for your business to reach new readers?

What is Medium?

Thirty million users visit the content platform Medium.com each month. Founded by Ev Williams (the former CEO of Twitter), the platform-CMS-community hybrid has made a lot of changes in how it operates alongside both publishers and marketers.

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project launched a little over a year ago. Since then, it has evolved and made a significant impact on how search engines and publishing websites interact with the mobile web. However, despite the strong uptake of AMP by many publishers, there are still many questions to be answered. Publishers are seeing more traffic, but revenue has yet to follow suit, and there is, of course, the question of ‘who owns the user?’ This post looks at the current state of AMP, how it is staying ahead of competitors and what the future holds.

The mobile web is the new normal

The early internet was the Wild West: each website had its own individual brand and layout and each was controlled by a vast amount of different people and organizations.