Medium “Investing” tag statistics
How busy the Investing 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 720 stories from the last 14.4 days
Busier than 32% of 73 tracked tags
24% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 50 stories a day, Investing is busier than 32% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (29,304 followers per daily story) is higher than 47% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
65% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 24% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 35% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Investing stories
| Publication | Followers | Investing stories (last 14.4d) |
|---|---|---|
| Investor’s Handbook | 31K | 19 |
| The Open Draft | 178 | 17 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 15 |
| Coinmonks | 145K | 13 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 13 |
| Financial Network | 296 | 10 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 9 |
| Venture | 7.5K | 9 |
| DataDrivenInvestor | 110K | 8 |
| Wall Street Gradient | 13K | 6 |
Top Investing stories right now
- Ukraine Update October 17
- I Stopped Trying to Predict the Market. Here’s What I Learned About Probability
- McDonald’s Is Not a Burger Company. It Is the Fifth Largest Landlord on Earth.
- The Götterdämmerung of Software
- Gold, Silver, or Bitcoin: Which Store of Value Wins the Next Decade?
- Forget All the Money Hype. Here’s What Actually Works
- I Quit Chasing Fast Money and Built Real Wealth
- And Hence it Starts.
- This Market Will Change The World Forever
- The Secret to Long-Term Wealth: The Power of Delayed Gratification
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Investing tag on Medium?
- About 50 per day (351 per week), based on 720 stories published in the 14.4-day window before our last scan. The tag has 160,955 stories in total.
- Is the Investing tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 32% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 29,304 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Investing?
- 24% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 65% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.