HubPages vs. Medium (2024)

Before we get started, I want to be straight with you about something.

While I have been writing at HubPages for over 10 years and feel like I know the platform inside out, I’ve only been at Medium for just over a month, so my opinions of Medium should perhaps be categorized more as “first impressions”.

It’s also quite possible that my thoughts will shift over time. If that happens, I will return to this article and update it.

That said, I did spend many hours researching Medium, and discussed the site with some very experienced and high-earning writers there, before even joining.

Since signing up, I have posted over 20 articles there, earned my first payment, and had work accepted and published by half a dozen publications, so I do believe that my understanding is reasonably sound, at least for the sake of this general overview.

Below is a list of some of the features at HubPages that I particularly like.

1. Passive income

HubPages is closer to pure passive income than Medium. Although it can take time for your articles to climb up through the search engine rankings, once they are up there, the traffic…