Medium “Affiliate Marketing” tag statistics
How busy the Affiliate Marketing tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 40 stories from the last 15.8 days
Busier than 0% of 73 tracked tags
22% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 3 stories a day, Affiliate Marketing is busier than 0% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (2,835 followers per daily story) is higher than 11% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
55% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 22% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 38% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Affiliate Marketing stories
| Publication | Followers | Affiliate Marketing stories (last 15.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 2 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 1 |
| Unwritten Pages | 152 | 1 |
Top Affiliate Marketing stories right now
- Is Benable Worth It in 2026? My Experience, Earnings, and First-Hour Setup Guide
- I Made These 5 Pinterest Mistakes So You Don’t Have To
- The Internet Doesn’t Need More Content. It Needs People With Good Taste.
- How I Made My First $1 Online
- I Made My First $3,500 from Fiverr Affiliates in 2023 (And How You Can Do the Same in 2026)
- How A to Z Gardening Products Helps You Choose Better Garden Gear
- How I Made My First $1,000 with Affiliate Marketing
- How I’d Use AI to Make My First Affiliate Sale
- I Went From 3 Hours Per Post to 10 Minutes Per Day
- If I Were Starting From Zero With No Money, These Are the First 5 Online Businesses I'd Consider
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Affiliate Marketing tag on Medium?
- About 3 per day (18 per week), based on 40 stories published in the 15.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 17,223 stories in total.
- Is the Affiliate Marketing tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 0% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 2,835 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Affiliate Marketing?
- 22% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 55% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.