Medium “Passive Income” tag statistics
How busy the Passive Income tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 220 stories from the last 14.8 days
Busier than 7% of 73 tracked tags
10% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 15 stories a day, Passive Income is busier than 7% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (968 followers per daily story) is higher than 8% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
41% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 10% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 57% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Passive Income stories
| Publication | Followers | Passive Income stories (last 14.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 20 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 12 |
| No Time | 14K | 9 |
| Coinmonks | 145K | 4 |
| Small Wonders Daily | 82 | 3 |
| Writer Journal | 448 | 2 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 2 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 2 |
| Financial Network | 296 | 2 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 2 |
Top Passive Income stories right now
- I’m Done Chasing Passive Income Because Most Boring Business Is Making Me More Money
- I Tried 4 Writing Hustles—Hustle #2 Made Me $860 in the Last 40 Days
- How I Earn $50 From Reading Books Without Writing Them
- How to Use AI Tools to Make 500 Dollars a Day Working From Home Without Spending a 0 rupee’s
- I’ve sold over 13,000 digital products. Here’s what actually sells
- An Old Story Earned Nearly 90% of My Medium Income While I Was in Europe
- 4 Legit Websites That Pay You to Transcribe Audio
- Websites That Pay You to Write Short Articles
- I Tried to Make Extra Money Online. Nobody Talks About This Part.
- You don’t need to be rich. You just need an extra $1,000/mo — Here’s how I do it
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Passive Income tag on Medium?
- About 15 per day (104 per week), based on 220 stories published in the 14.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 34,438 stories in total.
- Is the Passive Income tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 7% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 968 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Passive Income?
- 10% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 41% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.