We’ve added 77 countries to the Medium Partner Program
Plus a $10 minimum, details about your earnings included in your Partner Program dashboard, and expanding the Boost Nomination Program.
Today’s the day — we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding the Medium Partner Program to 77 new countries! Country expansion is the most requested change to the Partner Program, and we’re thrilled to support writers from as many countries as possible to write and be rewarded on Medium. We’ve also made a few other updates and improvements to the program.
Here are the headline changes:
- We support 77 new countries, bringing us to a total of 119 countries.
- There will be a $10 USD minimum payout threshold.
- We’re expanding the Boost Nomination Program to allow editors from these newly supported countries to join.
- We’ve updated the Partner Program Dashboard to share more details about your earnings.
Why we’re excited to include more writers in the Medium Partner Program
The Medium Partner Program allows writers to earn money for their stories. Our mission is to deepen our readers’ understanding of the world. The more writers we can support and reward, the richer and deeper our community will be, and the better we’ll be able to serve our readers. We can’t wait to showcase and pay more writers to share their thought-provoking perspectives and international voices with our readers.
To everyone who has emailed us, messaged us on social media, or shared feedback on the Partner Program over the last couple of years: thank you. When speaking with many of you, one of the top questions I’d get would be about when we were planning to expand country support for the Partner Program. It’s great to give a positive answer to those questions.
I’ve worked on the Partner Program for almost three years now, and I’ve personally reviewed over 10,000 Partner Program applications from writers all over the world (back when we processed each and every application manually!). I’ve read and responded to hundreds of emails sharing feedback and requests related to the Partner Program, including wanting the application and enrollment system automated and quicker (done!), updating the Partner Program Dashboard (done!), and incentivizing more high quality stories on Medium (done and still working to make it better!).
These new updates have involved the whole company, with multiple engineers, designers, and product and content team members working to open up and grow the Partner Program as much as possible. We mean it when we say we’re listening to what you and everyone else in the Medium community have to say.
Let’s go into more detail about the changes!
We’re opening up the Medium Partner Program to 77 new countries.
Here’s the full list of countries that are now supported in the Partner Program:
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam
In short, almost all countries supported by Stripe are now supported with our latest expansion.
To those who are in a newly supported country, welcome! You can review the rest of the Partner Program eligibility requirements and apply to join here: https://medium.com/partner-program.
Please note support to new countries is rolling out and will take a couple of weeks. If you meet all eligibility requirements but do not see a newly supported country listed on the application page yet, please check again at a later date.
There will be a new $10 USD minimum payout threshold.
To scale our Partner Program, story earnings will now need to accumulate a minimum of $10 USD before we can send a payout to your Stripe account. If your stories do not earn $10 in a given month, the balance will be rolled over to the following month until you meet the minimum threshold.
For example, if you earn $6 in January and $5 in February, we will send your total earnings for those months to you in early March.
To learn more about the $10 minimum payout, check out this article.
We’re expanding the Boost Nomination Program to include nominators from more countries.
Since we can now pay writers from those 77 additional countries through the Medium Partner Program, we can also recruit and pay Boost nominators based in those countries. In fact, we’ve already started the process.
For anyone not in the know, our Boost Nomination Program is one of the ways we handpick some of the best stories on Medium to get extra visibility. While we have a team of internal curators, we also rely on independent editors within the Medium community to find and nominate stories for a Boost. When nominated stories are selected for a Boost, the nominator earns a flat fee. You can read more about the Boost here.
We asked a few of our newest nominators from newly supported countries to share a bit about why they’re excited to join both the Medium Partner Program and the Boost Nomination Program. Here’s what they had to say:
“I am so excited about the MPP opening up for India! After waiting almost 30 months, signing up took me exactly 30 seconds. While I am happy about being rewarded for my writing, I am honored to be on the International Boost Nominating team as an editor. I love helping writers fine-tune their work. Being a boost nominator will enable me to showcase writers from my region and beyond. I am thrilled that Medium will help them get the recognition they deserve.” — Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, nominator from Namaste Now
I’m here for a good read. As a Medium member since 2019, I’ve seen how this platform differentiates conventional publishing, allowing creators to focus on their work of art without having to fret about the exhausting process of publishing. As an editor, I’m amazed at the pool of talent abundantly afloat here. I constantly scout for good poetry, prose, and technical articles out there. Only, now I’m being rewarded for that! I’m thrilled that Sri Lanka is finally in the MPP and excited for all my fellow writers for the rewarding scheme this presents. — Viraji Ogodapola, nominator from The Howling Owl
I just joined the Medium Partner Program, and I’m so excited it finally opened in India. I had to pinch myself twice to make sure it was true. Ever since I joined Medium in 2018, I’ve been waiting for this day. So grateful to Tony and team for making this possible. Long live Medium! — Sai Krishna Kothapalli, nominator from InfoSec Write-Ups
With emerging writers entering the English-speaking digital writing space, South Korean writers have many stories to tell. I’m hoping Medium will provide a space for these writers to be heard across the globe. — Ethan Taylor, nominator from Farewell Alarms.
If you’re a publication editor based in one of our newly-supported countries who would like to get involved with nominating, you can learn more about what we’re looking for in publications joining the Boost Nomination Program and apply here.
We’ve updated the Partner Program Dashboard to share more details about your earnings.
For those of you already in the Partner Program, you may have noticed that the Partner Program Dashboard has a fresh look. You can now get a clearer look into your earnings summary and payout history, including any tax withholding or payment processor account fees.
You can also monitor your rollover balance, see a breakdown of monthly and lifetime story earnings, and update your payout settings all in one place.
For more information about the Partner Program Dashboard, click here.
What do these changes mean for you?
For writers now eligible to join the Partner Program, you can check out the rest of the Partner Program eligibility requirements and apply to join. As a reminder, support for all of the new countries is actively rolling out over the next few weeks.
To learn more about the Partner Program, read:
- Partner Program Guide
- Medium’s Quality Guidelines
- Information about the Boost Nomination Program and how you can get your stories Boosted
- Medium’s Distribution Network
For the Medium community: You can expect to see a wider variety of voices on Medium and a growing stream of meaningful, quality writing and new perspectives that deepen understanding. As we work with more Boost nominators and publications from new countries, we’ll be able to identify, recommend, and reward all kinds of amazing writers and stories.
We want to make Medium the best place for high quality writing that our members are proud to read. Supporting more countries in the Partner Program is one of many steps we’re taking to make Medium more inclusive, diverse, and accessible to readers and writers globally. As always, please share your feedback and questions in the replies or send us a message. Thanks for being a part of the Medium community.
