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Earning 25,000 Reads on Medium vs Vocal
Looking at the difference in the two platform's earnings potential and features.
Vocal is an up-and-coming platform that offers similar services to Medium and has been garnering a lot of buzz recently. They offer a flat rate payment based on reads, bonuses for story publishing goals, and you can still get paid without paying $5 a month. Unfortunately, you can’t self-publish, and nothing under 600 words gets approved. So, there’s definitely some work to be done, but the big question is, which pays better?
I just recently hit the 25,000 reads mark on Medium and have since been looking into Vocal, as you own the rights to your own work, and they offer a free, flat rate to publish on their platform. So, you can essentially republish the same, or similar work and get better pay, from my understanding. You don’t have to pay $5 a month, and it doesn't matter if the views are internal or not.
So, how do they stack up?
Vocal offers a flat rate of $3.80 per 1000 reads, meaning, 25,000 reads amounts to $95. I’m told they also offer bonuses based on stories published, so you can get $5 for your first 5 stories published, 10$ at 10, and so on. They also have other bonuses along the way to keep you motivated.
