Medium is an online publishing platform, a website where people write articles and other people read them, made by Medium. Its about page calls it a home for human stories and ideas, where anyone can share knowledge without first building a mailing list or a following. It states that over 100 million people use Medium every month, among them software developers, product designers and CEOs.
A writer publishes a story under a personal profile or inside a publication, a shared space where several writers and editors work together. Medium helps each story find the right readers, so a new writer can reach an audience without existing followers. Some stories are member-only. Members read without limits or ads, listen to audio narrations, read offline in the Medium app, create their own publications and connect a custom domain to their profile.
Publishing is open to anyone. Medium does not sell ads or user data; it is paid for by over a million members who buy a monthly or yearly membership, and part of each membership goes to the writers whose stories the member reads.