Prezly vs Medium: Take control of your content

Medium is a cool way to start sharing your ideas, so long as you don’t mind someone else pulling the strings. If you’re ready to take control of your content and start building a fanbase, choose Prezly.

Prezly
Medium
Multimedia story editor
Your own publishing site
Use your own domain
Private & scheduled posts
Multiple site themes
Subscription form
Email sign-up
"Follow" on Medium
Newsletters & email campaigns
CRM contact management
Export your follower data anytime
Open source
Support
Live chat + no bots
Web form

With Medium, you are the product in someone else’s business.

Isn’t it time you took control?

Take charge of your content and your audience with Prezly's complete storytelling toolkit.

[Medium is] completely biased, both in terms of algorithms and in terms of customer engagement.

Medium review
Medium review1/5 on Trustpilot

No more paywall! Why should someone else charge entry for your content? With Prezly, anyone can view and subscribe to your stories. Tell your story on your terms. Never worry about algorithms burying your content, or your stories being arbitrarily censored. No middleman. Collect email subscribers that you can reach directly with personalized newsletters and multimedia email campaigns. Your data, not ours. We won’t hold your data hostage. Export your subscriber list and content whenever you want. Do it your way. Use professionally designed themes or build on top of ours with the option to self-host.

It has increased our company's brand image a thousand-fold. I wouldn't use anything else.

Why pick Prezly over Medium

You’re in control

With Prezly, you own your content and you choose how you communicate with your subscribers. No one is going to shut down your account with no notice or censor you.

Easy setup

Start publishing content within minutes of starting your free trial using professional themes you can customise with your own branding and details.

Prezly were so easy to use, and have really exceptional customer service. I tried other services before using Prezly, but now I’ve found such a great platform I’ll be sticking here!

Jayde Lovell
Jayde LovellWeber Shandwick

Build a fanbase

Use your powerful new CRM to manage your subscribers and find out which of your stories resonate best. Then use that intel to make your next email campaign explode.

With room to grow

Think you might want to expand your online presence one day? Great – we give you the tools to integrate with other sites or build on top of our open-source themes.

You need to have your own platform where you can publish your content, that you control, that can at least capture email addresses.

Rand Fishkin
Rand FishkinSparkToro

So, what are you looking for?

The freedom to share stories that are important to me, with my followers, on my terms.
The freedom to share stories that are important to me, with my followers, on my terms.
A platform I can post to from time to time. I’m not really bothered about building a following.
A platform I can post to from time to time. I’m not really bothered about building a following.

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Take the stress out of contact management and distribution with a dedicated outreach CRM that your whole team can use.