October Updates from the Partner Program

Pro tips for your stats page, October payments, upcoming editorial collections, and more

The past month on Medium, we’ve been swept up by the midterms, election tech, and Big Tech. We’ve highlighted some insightful advice on creativity and productivity, health and science, and even some spooky stories for Halloween. And November is already off to a compelling start. For this month’s newsletter, we outline some pro tips for exploring stats for your stories, a reminder to submit your taxpayer information, and details on how to submit to collections our editorial team is working on this month.

In last month’s newsletter, we introduced you to the new stats page we released that gives you more granular analytics about how each of your stories has resonated with readers.

Now that you’ve had a month to get used to it, here are four pro tips for how to dive into the Details:

On 10/31, we processed October payments to your bank account. As always, these payments were based on the depth of engagement from our members (distributing each member’s $5/month based on his or her applause, reading time, and overall engagement last month).​

Based on member engagement from October:

Last week, we emailed all writers in the Partner Program with details on new information we require to be compliant with U.S. law. In order to be paid by Medium, you need to enter your taxpayer information — regardless of citizenship or country of residence. Most of you have already submitted your information — thank you!​

If you haven’t submitted your information yet, you can enter your details here. We’ve designed the entry form to be quick, secure, and easy. You can review our FAQ if you have any questions. We won’t be able to transfer your November earnings at the end of this month until you’ve completed the form.​

Please note: If you are not a resident or citizen of the United States, you must still provide your current taxpayer information. This is so that we can validate that you are not a U.S. taxpayer and that Medium does not need to report your earnings to the Internal Revenue Service.

Need some inspiration for your next story? Here are some story collections our editors are promoting over the next few weeks:

Looking for some great reads? Our editors published some great new collections this month, which feature stories published through the Partner Program.

This monthly newsletter is emailed to all writers enrolled in the Partner Program. Learn more about earning money for your best work on Medium here.

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