Medium “Film” tag statistics
How busy the Film tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 520 stories from the last 14.4 days
Busier than 25% of 73 tracked tags
28% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 36 stories a day, Film is busier than 25% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (62,439 followers per daily story) is higher than 73% of tags — more readers per story than average.
59% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 28% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 33% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Film stories
| Publication | Followers | Film stories (last 14.4d) |
|---|---|---|
| Counter Arts | 56K | 30 |
| Fanfare | 35K | 19 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 12 |
| Frame Rated | 13K | 12 |
| The Ugly Monster | 18K | 9 |
| Entertainment Breakdown | 274 | 7 |
| Babel | 6.2K | 4 |
| Thought Thinkers | 34K | 4 |
| ReelRank News | 53 | 4 |
| Full Frame | 55K | 3 |
Top Film stories right now
- The day Wagner Moura put me on trial, and my nervous system found him guilty
- You are Inspired by the Character not the Actor
- Independent Filmmaking Can Leave a Scar
- The Rock’s Rock Bottom
- Popular Childhood Films That Became Nightmare Fuel
- ‘Coonskin’: Harmful Racist Garbage or Enlightening Satire
- Time for more Silly, Spooky — and Sappy — Cat Cards
- When Worlds Collide: ‘The Glass House’ Meets 9/11
- The Furore Over Greta Gerwig’s ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ is Deeply Tedious
- Why Jack Had to Die to Make ‘Titanic’ One of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Love Stories
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Film tag on Medium?
- About 36 per day (252 per week), based on 520 stories published in the 14.4-day window before our last scan. The tag has 107,140 stories in total.
- Is the Film tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 25% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 62,439 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Film?
- 28% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 59% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.