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You Need to Cancel and Resubscribe to Medium
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Starting in August 2021, Medium introduced a new membership renewal program. Simply put, if somebody becomes a paid subscriber through your membership link, then you get rewarded. It’s an affiliate link—nothing special.
Medium had made many changes to its partner program in 2021 so I didn’t pay much attention and waited to see how things work out. I received my first referral member in September and saw a cool $2.27 in my monthly earnings.
In October, I received my second membership referral and to my surprise, when I checked my dashboard I was earning an extra $4.54 this month…this isn’t a one-time bonus!
I took this opportunity to actually look up the rules for the referral program and here is a table of how you can earn.
Now, I know I’m a few months late so this is probably old news to everybody, but what about the title of this article?
As a paid subscriber myself, I wondered where my referral bonus was going. After searching around the dashboard a bit, I opened a support ticket to…
