Medium vs Campaign Monitor

Medium is a blogging platform that also allows any publication on Medium to start a newsletter and correspond with their subscribers directly in their inbox.

Campaign Monitor makes it easy to keep in touch with your audience via email. With a drag and drop email designer, free templates, signups forms, and a bunch more features.

Feature Comparison

Medium and Campaign Monitor both have great feature sets so the right tool for you really depends on your needs.

Features	Medium	Campaign Monitor
💸 Paid Subscriptions Accept paid subscriptions	❌	❌
➗ Segmentation Create segments of subscribers	❌	✅
🤖 Automation Automate actions based on behaviors	❌	✅
📩 Embeddable Forms Embeddable subscription forms	❌	✅
📄 Landing Pages Create landing pages for your newsletter	✅	❌
🔌 3rd Party Integrations Connect to other services	❌	✅
🖊️ Visual Editor Drag and drop email editor	✅	✅
📝 Markdown Editor Write emails in markdown	❌	❌
👩‍💻 HTML Design emails with HTML text	❌	✅
⚒️ API Integrate with the platform's API	❌	❌
📈 Analytics Get data on your emails' performance	✅	✅
🌍 Custom Domain Use a custom domain for your page	❌	❌
🗣️ Referrals Setup a referral program	❌	❌
💽 Self Hosting Host on your own server	❌	❌
📢 Recommendations Recommend and be recommended by other newsletters	❌	❌