How to find Medium publications in the Boost Nomination program
Get to know a few of the folks nominating stories for Boost
One of the big questions people ask about the
Boost Nomination Pilot
iss who the nominators are and which publications are participating. So, let’s taco ‘bout it! ??
First, let’s review how all this works
Medium’s
Boost Nomination Pilot
is our experimental program to work in collaboration with independent publication editors on Medium to nominate high-quality stories for
Boost
.
- The program’s goal is to incentivize independent publication editors to help us find the new, niche, and unknown stories on Medium.
- Nominators can nominate stories in their topical focus, regardless of whether the stories are in their publications (or
any
publication)
- These nominations are reviewed by Medium’s internal curation team to see if they line up with
Medium’s Quality Guidelines
.
- If a nominated story is selected for Boost by our curators, it gets higher priority to be distributed in readers’ feeds.
- Nominators may also get financial compensation up to $900 US per month.
- Nominations from Boost Nomination Pilot participants account for only about half of the stories selected for Boost. The other half of Boosted stories are sourced directly by our internal curation team, which organically reviews hundreds of stories from all across Medium all day, every day. (You can
read more here
about what happens to your story after it’s published on Medium, and if you’re curious about how our curators assess stories, you can
read their training manual
.)
- Boosting is just one way that stories get distributed across Medium.
Every month, there are
five times
more stories that reach large audiences that have NOT been Boosted.
- The goal is to eventually integrate these functions into the Medium Partner Program, and open to door to hundreds (or even thousands!) of nominators.
Browse the publications that can nominate your stories for Boost
As of June 2024, there are over 150 people participating in the pilot program.
Before I share a link to where you can see them all listed, I want to be clear about something, here: The publications and nominators that we list have all consented to be public with their involvement in this program
.
This is important because some program participants have chosen to remain private.
Browse the list of publications in the Medium Help Center
here
.
We update that list monthly!
Reminder: friends don’t let friends take Medium advice from randos. If you see lists of nominating publications floating around Medium, always double check what you see against our official
Help Center list
.
Let’s hear from nominators about what they love about nominating
For those of you curious about the motivations of the editors in the Boost Nomination Pilot, we wanted to share what some of them have said they’re most enjoying about being a “nommer.”
I love getting a chance to promote intercultural stories from hidden readers in the Medium-sphere! There are so many wonderful stories about culture and connection that need to be heard and celebrated and I am glad to be able to give them more visibility
. ?
,
A-Culturated