How Much Did Medium Pay Me for 80k Views?

Daniel C.
3 min readApr 20, 2023

A Breakdown of My Most Viewed Article

When I first started writing about history and culture on Medium, I did not expect any of my articles to get more than a few clicks. Little did I know at the time about the power of Medium’s algorithm. For the next two years, this specific article generated 80,000 views, making it the highest-grossing article I wrote thus far.

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