Medium “Personal Finance” tag statistics
How busy the Personal Finance tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 760 stories from the last 14.6 days
Busier than 33% of 73 tracked tags
18% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 52 stories a day, Personal Finance is busier than 33% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (203 followers per daily story) is higher than 0% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
62% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 18% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 46% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.3 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Personal Finance stories
| Publication | Followers | Personal Finance stories (last 14.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| Stacker News | 6 | 62 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 34 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 25 |
| The Open Draft | 178 | 21 |
| Wealth Psychology | 407 | 17 |
| Financial Network | 296 | 17 |
| Towards Finance | 816 | 11 |
| The Money Guide | 741 | 11 |
| INVESTING BRIEF | 16 | 10 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 9 |
Top Personal Finance stories right now
- The Quiet Life Is Enough, and That’s Okay
- We have Made Everything Affordable Except Life
- The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves About Poverty
- Are We Buying Quality,
- Marriage Is Your Worst (or Best) Financial Decision
- Rich People Don’t Think Like You — Here’s What I Learned
- I’ll Know Someone’s Bad With Money When They Do This
- ADHD, Impulsive Spending, and the Debt I'm Climbing Out Of
- 12 More Things That Are No Longer Worth Your Money
- I’m Getting Better With Money Every Day
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Personal Finance tag on Medium?
- About 52 per day (365 per week), based on 760 stories published in the 14.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 48,155 stories in total.
- Is the Personal Finance tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 33% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 203 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Personal Finance?
- 18% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 62% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.