Medium Publications Make $40K DAILY by Selling Your Content

Do you know what happens to your content once it gets published? Do you care?

It turns out that The Good Men Project is an octopus with eight legs/publications on Medium:

Hello Love (Relationships) — Love changes us. Love makes us human.

Change Becomes You (Advice) — Life advice that will (actually) improve your life.

Equality Includes You (Social Justice) — Speaking up for humanity through intersectional social justice. Open to all.

A Parent is Born (Parenting) — Because the moment a child is born, a parent is born too.

Greener Together (Environmentalism) — Because the earth needs us. Pronto.

From Agents of Change:

Shelter Me (Wellness) — A refuge for mind, body, and spirit.

Modern Identities (Gender, etc.) — Celebrating our relationships with self and others.

Co-Existence (Peace) — Social Justice, Ethics and Environmental Justice.

We have a vast, interconnected platform that includes 8 publications on Medium, a large social media presence and a main website that reaches millions of people around the world. New contributors welcome! (From The Good Men Project's official Medium page)

Let’s have a look at what’s going on with the stories published in one of The Good Men Project’s publications in REAL TIME, shall we? I have to use a combination of screenshots and links because of the notorious Medium PAYWALL. I’m sure you won’t mind. After all, we the writers, are so passionate about writing, aren’t we?

Here’s the story published on Medium:

Here it is again on The Good Men Project’s website:

You may ask, so what’s wrong with that? It’s a win-win for both parties, isn’t it?

One Medium writer actually did the math and came up with $16 per 1K views. I don’t know how much money the writer of the story (the screenshots I previously shared) eventually earned, but I know how much The Good Men Project made in 2023.

It’s more profitable to be an employee at The Good Men Project than a contributor to any of their publications on Medium.

The Good Men Project was founded by Tom Matlack in 2009. Tom set out to collect stories about the defining moments in men’s lives.

So, The Good Men Project is COLLECTING NOT CREATING STORIES, mostly from Medium to the best of my knowledge. I spent a reasonable amount of time going through “their” collected stories. I can’t claim that all of them are coming from Medium, but I couldn’t find a single one without a disclaimer where it was previously published or further shared.

I’m not a collector of other people’s ideas and work. I’m a fellow writer who’s giving credit where credit is due:

Support these Medium “whistleblower” writers and especially Freedium, which made it possible for me to read their stories behind the paywall.

Let’s wrap it up by “collecting” something from The Good Men Project’s Terms of Service:

“Unless we have entered into a separate, written agreement with you, when you provide GMM with a User Submission, you grant to GMM and its affiliates, partners, representatives, and their successors and assigns, a non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide license, with the right to grant sublicenses through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to display, publicly perform, distribute (including, without limitation, through third-party websites), store, transcode, broadcast, transmit, reproduce, edit, modify, create derivative works and otherwise use and reuse your User Submissions (or any portions or derivative works thereof) in any manner, in any medium now known or hereinafter created, for any purpose.  If we have entered into a separate, written agreement with you regarding User Submissions, the terms of that agreement will control with respect to such submissions.”

I know how you feel, but just chill. I went through HackerNoon’s Terms letter-by-letter, so you don’t have to. Let me break it down for you like this:

HackerNoon Terms: What’s yours is yours; what’s mine (HN) is mine.
Good Men Project Terms: What’s yours is mine; what’s mine (GMP) is mine.

“Ownership. AS BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY, YOU ARE THE SOLE OWNER OF YOUR CONTENT, subject to the licenses granted in this Section 8. We own Company Content, including, but not limited to, visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, design, and compilation, including, but not limited to, our compilation of User Content and other Site Content, computer code, products, software, aggregate User review ratings, and all other elements and components of the Site excluding Your Content, User Content, and Third-Party Content.”

At the end of the day, we all write to get paid or famed, or both - ideally and preferably.

We are also free to submit our content to any publication of our choice.