Medium “Leadership” tag statistics
How busy the Leadership 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 8.6 days
Busier than 58% of 73 tracked tags
39% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 93 stories a day, Leadership is busier than 58% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (55,209 followers per daily story) is higher than 63% of tags — more readers per story than average.
66% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 39% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 24% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Leadership stories
| Publication | Followers | Leadership stories (last 8.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 17 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 9 |
| Curated Newsletters | 22K | 9 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 6 |
| Food for Agile Thought | 6.6K | 5 |
| Venture | 7.5K | 5 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 5 |
| AI Briefing Room | 10 | 4 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 4 |
| Agile True North | 78 | 4 |
Top Leadership stories right now
- “You Said I Could Trust You”
- The Trump Administration is Coming For Ilhan Omar, and None Other Than Former Rep.
- Never Tell a Woman She Can’t Do Something
- As the Midterms Approach, Trump’s Allies Are Discussing Martial Law.
- When Power Blinds
- The Unseen Foundation
- How to Deal with Anxiety About the Future
- I Missed the Deadline. Little Did I Know, I Was Right on Time.
- A Sovereign Canada Allied With a Sovereign EU
- Agentic coding broke the iron triangle for tech leads in 5 different ways.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Leadership tag on Medium?
- About 93 per day (652 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 8.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 284,966 stories in total.
- Is the Leadership tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 58% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 55,209 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Leadership?
- 39% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 66% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.