Medium “Marketing” tag statistics
How busy the Marketing tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 13.5 days
Busier than 37% of 73 tracked tags
44% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 59 stories a day, Marketing is busier than 37% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (73,479 followers per daily story) is higher than 79% of tags — more readers per story than average.
70% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 44% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 22% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.6 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Marketing stories
| Publication | Followers | Marketing stories (last 13.5d) |
|---|---|---|
| Stacker News | 6 | 10 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 9 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 8 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 8 |
| The Romance Writer’s Club | 57 | 6 |
| Hirevire | 24 | 5 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 4 |
| Messy Founder | 295 | 4 |
| Coding Nexus | 20K | 4 |
| Startup Stash | 17K | 3 |
Top Marketing stories right now
- How to Build an AI Content System for Your Online Business
- How to Build an Email Sequence With AI (From Subscriber to Customer)
- Death Needs a Rebrand
- Why the Years Keep Getting Shorter
- The Quiet Person at the Other End of the Thread
- I Spent 30 Days Trying to Design Without Photoshop. Here’s What Happened.
- Stop Giving Your Customers So Many Options
- Is Who’s Who Worth It? Breaking Down the 0% Return on a $5,000 Profile
- Stop Asking Customers If They Want to Buy
- Which Portland? The Wrong One, Obviously.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Marketing tag on Medium?
- About 59 per day (414 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 13.5-day window before our last scan. The tag has 310,735 stories in total.
- Is the Marketing tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 37% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 73,479 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Marketing?
- 44% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 70% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.