Medium “Creativity” tag statistics
How busy the Creativity 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 8.8 days
Busier than 52% of 73 tracked tags
38% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 91 stories a day, Creativity is busier than 52% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (52,631 followers per daily story) is higher than 60% of tags — more readers per story than average.
67% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 38% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 33% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.3 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Creativity stories
| Publication | Followers | Creativity stories (last 8.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 22 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 20 |
| No Time | 14K | 15 |
| The Story Well | 552 | 14 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 9 |
| Fiction Shorts | 39K | 8 |
| Full Frame | 55K | 7 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 6 |
| Design Nexus | 975 | 6 |
| Nudge | 838 | 6 |
Top Creativity stories right now
- We Need to Stop Romanticising the Pressure to Keep Art as a Side Hustle
- In An Age of AI, Making Art Matters
- In the Worst of Times, in Every Era, Creators Still Must Create
- Embrace Your Weird, Imperfect Humanity
- Death Needs a Rebrand
- Faces Sculpted by Their Inner Traits
- I Spent Years Trying to Control Things That Were Never Mine to Control
- Why Writers Need To Choose Their Audience, Not the Other Way Around
- Little Things I Refuse to Give Up
- Dear Algorithms, let me be a writer
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Creativity tag on Medium?
- About 91 per day (638 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 8.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 252,299 stories in total.
- Is the Creativity tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 52% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 52,631 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Creativity?
- 38% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 67% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.