Medium today introduced Series, a mobile-friendly story format that lets users post photos and short-form text pieces in collections that grow over time. Series visually resemble Snapchat stories but have two key differences: they’re permanent, and users can create as many different series as they want. At a time when Medium is still fumbling toward a business model, the launch of Series represents a new strategy for growth. By building its first storytelling tool native to the phone, the company is trying to capture people who don’t write the lengthy, text-based pieces for which Medium is known.
Medium told Wired that Series are best suited to telling stories with incremental updates, such as a man working to be able to dunk a...
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