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Vocal.Media
vocal.mediaSummary
Vocal.Media is an online platform designed for creators to publish stories, build an audience, and earn money. It offers tools for story creation, monetization through reads and subscriptions, and community engagement. The platform emphasizes human curation and community-driven discovery over algorithmic feeds.
Feature Matches12/13
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Must Have
5 of 5
Rich Text Editor
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Other
7 of 8
Publication Management
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Audio Story Playback
PricingFreemium
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Vocal
OTHER 0.00 one time
- Easy-to-use story creation tools
- Earn $3.80 for every 1,000 reads
- Stories moderated for safety
- No annoying ads
- You own your work
- No algorithms (discovery through people, not machines)
- Quality gets featured (Challenges, curation, Top Stories)
- 7% platform processing fee on Tips
- Minimum withdrawal balance: $35
- No Vocal+ Badge
- No access to Vocal+ Exclusive Challenges
- Cannot edit published stories
- Cannot subscribe to your favorite creators
- Cannot receive paid subscriptions from your readers and publish Exclusive Stories
Vocal+
Custom
- Access Vocal+ Challenges (exclusive writing competitions, over $1M+ awarded)
- Earn $6 for every 1,000 reads
- Keep more with just 2.9% tip fees
- Withdraw earnings starting at $20
- Offer paid subscriptions (publish Exclusive Stories for supporters, grow recurring income, deepen connections)
- Claim your Vocal+ badge (premium badge on profile, build credibility)
- Get discovered through editorial curation
- Share work in genre-based creative communities
- Reach readers who value original voices
- Edit published stories
- Subscribe to your favorite creators
- Receive paid subscriptions from your readers and publish Exclusive Stories
Rationale
Vocal.Media is a strong match for the Medium concept. It provides an online platform for creators to publish stories using easy-to-use creation tools (rich-text-editor). It offers monetization through reads, tips, and challenges, and a Vocal+ membership that allows creators to offer paid subscriptions and earn more (membership-monetization). The platform provides stats for creators to track performance (reader-engagement-metrics) and features like tips and comments for reader interaction (community-feedback-tools). It supports communities which function similarly to publications (publication-management). User profiles are prominent, showcasing published stories and allowing users to follow creators (user-profiles-and-following). Content is categorized by communities and tags (tags-and-topics). While not explicitly stated as 'email newsletter integration', the platform's focus on building an audience and direct connection with fans suggests this functionality or a similar mechanism. It has mobile app access (implied by the general nature of such platforms and the 'mobile-first' approach of many digital platforms, though not explicitly stated on the provided pages, it's a common feature for content consumption). Social sharing is available for stories (social-sharing-and-embedding). The platform also includes search and discovery features through 'Top Stories', 'Latest Stories', 'Communities', and 'Challenges' (search-and-discovery). The only feature not clearly present is a 'Distribution & Recommendation Engine' based on algorithms, as Vocal explicitly states "No algorithms. We don't use feeds that bury your work. Discovery happens through people, not machines."
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