Medium “Love” tag statistics
How busy the Love tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 2.1 days
Busier than 88% of 73 tracked tags
27% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 377 stories a day, Love is busier than 88% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (4,218 followers per daily story) is higher than 14% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
70% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 27% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 30% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 3.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Love stories
| Publication | Followers | Love stories (last 2.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 21 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 14 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 13 |
| Hello, Love | 127K | 11 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 8 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 8 |
| Nudge | 838 | 7 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 6 |
| No Time | 14K | 6 |
| Notes on Closeness | 5 | 5 |
Top Love stories right now
- Anywhere But There
- Mama, Just Smile, and I’ll Feel Better.
- The Psychology of Attraction: Why Some People Draw Everyone In
- The hidden story of them!
- A Father’s Daughter: Part -1... Papa, please Teach me how to Play Golf!!
- 5 Manipulation Tactics That Make You Think the Decision Was Yours
- Melting
- THE PARAMOUR’S SIDE OF THE STORY
- The House we built everyday
- The Ones We Treat Worst Stay the Longest.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Love tag on Medium?
- About 377 per day (2,641 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 2.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 640,699 stories in total.
- Is the Love tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 88% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 4,218 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Love?
- 27% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 70% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.