Medium “Business” tag statistics
How busy the Business tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 5.9 days
Busier than 70% of 73 tracked tags
26% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 136 stories a day, Business is busier than 70% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (78,440 followers per daily story) is higher than 84% of tags — more readers per story than average.
57% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 26% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 31% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.9 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Business stories
| Publication | Followers | Business stories (last 5.9d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 45 |
| Authority Magazine | 16K | 44 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 24 |
| Entrepreneurs Worldwide | 44 | 20 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 17 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 9 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 7 |
| Entrepreneurship Handbook | 450K | 7 |
| StartupInsider | 8.8K | 7 |
| Startup Stash | 17K | 7 |
Top Business stories right now
- The Green Transition Is Not Just About Technology—It Is About Who Can Afford It
- Why Writers Need To Choose Their Audience, Not the Other Way Around
- The Real Reason Idiots Keep Rising to the Top
- I’m Done Chasing Passive Income Because Most Boring Business Is Making Me More Money
- What Happens When You Stop Explaining Yourself to Everyone
- AI is Getting Ugly(er)
- When Power Blinds
- McDonald’s Is Not a Burger Company. It Is the Fifth Largest Landlord on Earth.
- Stop Giving Your Customers So Many Options
- Stop Asking Customers If They Want to Buy
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Business tag on Medium?
- About 136 per day (951 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 5.9-day window before our last scan. The tag has 492,670 stories in total.
- Is the Business tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 70% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 78,440 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Business?
- 26% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 57% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.