Medium “Lifestyle” tag statistics
How busy the Lifestyle tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 10.6 days
Busier than 47% of 73 tracked tags
18% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 75 stories a day, Lifestyle is busier than 47% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (67,333 followers per daily story) is higher than 74% of tags — more readers per story than average.
50% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 18% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 46% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Lifestyle stories
| Publication | Followers | Lifestyle stories (last 10.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 27 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 15 |
| EverVerse Publishing | 769 | 7 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 6 |
| Nudge | 838 | 6 |
| No Time | 14K | 6 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 6 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 5 |
| Growth Theory | 154 | 4 |
| Infinite Impulse | 4.8K | 4 |
Top Lifestyle stories right now
- The Invisible Prison
- A Pleasant Afternoon at CityCentre Houston
- The Health Effects of Spending Too Much Time Indoors
- How to Enjoy a Trip Without Spending Too Much
- The Most Expensive Thing I Ever Bought Was Trying to Look Successful
- The Pressure to Be a Perfect Parent: Are We Overcomplicating the Art of Raising Children?
- The Psychology of Attraction: Why Some People Draw Everyone In
- Weight Loss Mistakes
- Girls’ Health and Nutrition: Why Beauty Tips Aren’t Enough
- Roti, Kapda, Makaan… And a Fully Charged Mobile Phone
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Lifestyle tag on Medium?
- About 75 per day (526 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 10.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 179,790 stories in total.
- Is the Lifestyle tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 47% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 67,333 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Lifestyle?
- 18% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 50% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.