Why Medium Has More Earning Potential Than Simily

Except for very specific types of articles, under the current payout plan

Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.
6 min readFeb 14, 2022
writing desk, ready to write on Medium and Simily — laptop, notepad, and coffee
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“Writers — Don’t Miss Out on a Chance to Earn on this Exciting New Platform,” headlines in my Medium Daily Digest have read over the past couple of weeks.

The “exciting new platform” is Simily. It’s an online content creation platform with an editor similar to that of Medium. Although it’s geared toward fiction and creative writing, you can publish on any topic you want there (except erotica, which violates an agreement with Simily’s payment processor).

When you’re finished an article on Simily, you click a button to submit it for review. However, it’s my experience that articles on that platform publish almost instantly. If there’s any “review” of stories at all before publishing, it’s done by no more than an algorithm or bot.

The reason Simily is being talked about so much is that its current payout structure is so different from Medium’s.

The difference between Medium’s payout structure and Simily’s payout structure

Medium’s payout structure is a little convoluted. A million people can view your article through good SEO, links on other websites, or social…

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Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.

I write about writing, ideas, creativity, homelessness, intuition, spirituality, life lessons. Ex-college teacher Twitter: @paulryburn