Medium “Productivity” tag statistics
How busy the Productivity tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 4.6 days
Busier than 77% of 73 tracked tags
38% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 172 stories a day, Productivity is busier than 77% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (50,975 followers per daily story) is higher than 59% of tags — more readers per story than average.
65% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 38% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 39% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Productivity stories
| Publication | Followers | Productivity stories (last 4.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 58 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 50 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 14 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 10 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 10 |
| Nudge | 838 | 7 |
| ProductivitySpot | 879 | 6 |
| The Open Draft | 178 | 6 |
| KAIRI | 854 | 5 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 5 |
Top Productivity stories right now
- The Drug We Drink Every Morning Without Even Thinking About It
- You’re In The Wrong Circle
- How to Rest Without Feeling Lazy
- How Do You Build and Publish an App From ChatGPT With Floot?
- Guilt of an Empty Hour
- Your Excuses Sound Smart, but They’re Costing You Years
- Why You Should Be a Lazy Writer Instead
- I Quit 4 Productivity Habits. I Get More Done Now.
- The Night Someone Switched the Price Tags on Everything
- The Day Is Won or Lost at the Edges
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Productivity tag on Medium?
- About 172 per day (1,207 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 4.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 376,114 stories in total.
- Is the Productivity tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 77% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 50,975 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Productivity?
- 38% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 65% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.