A month of posting on PublishOX - Dismal earnings, but not an entirely negative experience!

revisesociology (80)in LeoFinance • 4 years ago (edited)

I've been cross posting to Publish OX for the last month, as an experiment to see how much I can earn in comparison to Hive and LEO.

I didn't earn very much in the last month, especially not compared to what I earn on Leo and Hive, but the experience has been generally positive - I've found a few decent articles to read for example and had some reasonable engagement in the form of comments and responses.

What is PublishOX ?

In case you've never heard of it, it's simply a blogging platform where you can create a series of blogs and then post to those blogs.

You get rewarded in four different cryptos - ETH/ BAT/ Loopring/ and recently AMPLE.

You also earn for voting and you can set your share of the reward for a vote from 20% to 80% of what you give the author - you are limited to the number of votes you can give daily.

If you'd like to sign up and pump my bags - here's a referral link.

My Personal Experiment

I made a point to post once a day for month, from October 25th to November 24th.

I chose to cross post articles that I'd already written from the last month on Hive/ Leo, selecting only posts of a reasonable quality - typically on the following three themes:

Crypto
Early retirement
Splinterlands.

As well as posting, I also took the opportunity to chuck out a few upvotes, as you get rewarded for voting too.

And it is with great fanfare that I announce my monthly rewards for posting have come in at a grand total of.....

$2.95

So what's that - $0.001 per view, or 1/10th of a cent per view - harsh!

Of course that's not even from the 30 posts I put up in October - November, that includes any earnings I may have made of posts prior to that.

The highest pay out

I earned $1.06 for 'What Crypto Should I Buy' - A look at what Google says I should I buy. Note that I earned over 70 LEO for this, so 35 times $0.25 is errr... about $8, so eight times more on LEO, and that's not counting the Hive I earned on it too.

The biggest flop

There are SO many to choose from - so many that earned less than $0.05, but my own personal reward for the biggest fail goes to 'How I earn a Living through Blogging' - for the pure and utter irony of it receiving so little attention on a blogging platform.

I earned $0.02 for that post, which is at least 100 times less what I earned for it on Hive.

Heads up - I do actually earn a living from blogging, that's not including Hive and LEO, I just do this for fun in the evenings.

I would have least expected some kind of comment, but nothing, absolutely nothing from the whole of the lack of Publish Ox community.

Publish OX - not an entirely negative experience

Besides the utterly dreadfully dismal earning potential my experience wasn't entirely negative - I did get some sensible comments, and I found a few good articles worth reading too, and posting to the Platform was easy enough.

one advantage over LEO/ HIVE is that I can still earn on posts even several months or years after they've been published - there's no payout window, which I like.

Publishing to PublishOX - is it worth it?

Most definitely NOT for me at this moment in time - so little reward in a month makes it non viable, so I'm simply going to use it as a platform to publish my Splinterlands Challenge posts to and to shill LEO - people really should come over here, it's far more profitable and the engagement is better!