Medium “Life” tag statistics
How busy the Life tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 1.6 days
Busier than 96% of 73 tracked tags
16% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 502 stories a day, Life is busier than 96% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (18,528 followers per daily story) is higher than 32% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
62% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 16% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 37% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 3.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Life stories
| Publication | Followers | Life stories (last 1.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 89 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 52 |
| The Crypto Kiosk | 4.5K | 34 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 28 |
| Nudge | 838 | 26 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 24 |
| No Time | 14K | 23 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 18 |
| Growth Theory | 154 | 15 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 13 |
Top Life stories right now
- The School Mothers Knew My Snacks, Not My Life
- 11 Things That Are Classy If You’re Rich and Trashy If You’re Poor
- The Health Effects of Spending Too Much Time Indoors
- The Ultimate Freedom Is Being Freed From Ambition
- The Feeling of Being a Stranger Somewhere New
- i hope you spend enough time getting to know yourself
- 160 Hours of Hard Exercise Since January — Want To Know What’s Changed?
- Light spreads where a candle burns!
- The Psychology of Attraction: Why Some People Draw Everyone In
- The hard tears!
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Life tag on Medium?
- About 502 per day (3,512 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 1.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 1,170,704 stories in total.
- Is the Life tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 96% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 18,528 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Life?
- 16% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 62% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.