Medium “Money” tag statistics
How busy the Money tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 7.6 days
Busier than 63% of 73 tracked tags
14% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 105 stories a day, Money is busier than 63% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (102,103 followers per daily story) is higher than 89% of tags — more readers per story than average.
49% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 14% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 56% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Money stories
| Publication | Followers | Money stories (last 7.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 59 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 56 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 18 |
| The Open Draft | 189 | 16 |
| Wealth Psychology | 413 | 16 |
| Investor’s Handbook | 31K | 14 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 13 |
| The Money Guide | 743 | 13 |
| Financial Network | 296 | 13 |
| No Time | 14K | 12 |
Top Money stories right now
- The Quiet Life Is Enough, and That’s Okay
- 11 Things That Are Classy If You’re Rich and Trashy If You’re Poor
- The Most Expensive Thing I Ever Bought Was Trying to Look Successful
- We have Made Everything Affordable Except Life
- The Automatic Rally: What Happens When Sellers Start Losing Control?
- Why Writers Need To Choose Their Audience, Not the Other Way Around
- The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves About Poverty
- Wyckoff Distribution Method: Understanding How Smart Money Exit
- The Rocks That Move When Nobody Is Watching
- Conceal Your Intentions
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Money tag on Medium?
- About 105 per day (737 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 7.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 250,329 stories in total.
- Is the Money tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 63% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 102,103 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Money?
- 14% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 49% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.