Medium “Motivation” tag statistics
How busy the Motivation 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
41% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 59 stories a day, Motivation is busier than 37% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (14,685 followers per daily story) is higher than 26% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
75% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 41% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 31% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 3.5 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Motivation stories
| Publication | Followers | Motivation stories (last 13.5d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 24 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 16 |
| Nudge | 858 | 11 |
| A thousand small wins | 64 | 8 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 6 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 6 |
| The Story Well | 553 | 6 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 5 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 5 |
| Growth Theory | 158 | 4 |
Top Motivation stories right now
- The day Wagner Moura put me on trial, and my nervous system found him guilty
- You’re In The Wrong Circle
- Rethinking Luck: Why Strangers Hold the Key
- You Are The Chosen One
- A Ninety-Nine Ways to Fix Your Life
- Before the World Tells You Who to Be
- The Best Revenge Is Massive Success
- Never Tell a Woman She Can’t Do Something
- Should We Always Follow Iconic Personalities in Our Kinship
- Life Skills That School Never Teaches Us
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Motivation 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 186,322 stories in total.
- Is the Motivation tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 37% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 14,685 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Motivation?
- 41% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 75% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.