Medium “Relationships” tag statistics
How busy the Relationships tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 799 stories from the last 1.7 days
Busier than 93% of 73 tracked tags
19% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 464 stories a day, Relationships is busier than 93% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (21,175 followers per daily story) is higher than 37% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
62% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 19% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 45% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Relationships stories
| Publication | Followers | Relationships stories (last 1.7d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 61 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 24 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 18 |
| Nudge | 838 | 17 |
| Hello, Love | 127K | 17 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 10 |
| Sexual Wellness Today | 50 | 10 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 9 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 9 |
| No Time | 14K | 8 |
Top Relationships stories right now
- “You Said I Could Trust You”
- The Quiet Life Is Enough, and That’s Okay
- The World Rewards Pretenders, Not Perfection
- The Comfortable Box: Are We Preparing Our Children for Life or Keeping Them Away From It?
- The Pressure to Be a Perfect Parent: Are We Overcomplicating the Art of Raising Children?
- The Psychology of Attraction: Why Some People Draw Everyone In
- Some Moments With Your Partner Should Never Be Left Unrecorded
- Can Men and Women Really Be Just Friends?
- The Years Between His Doubt and Her Silence —
- Shoot Your Way Out of the Slump
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Relationships tag on Medium?
- About 464 per day (3,251 per week), based on 799 stories published in the 1.7-day window before our last scan. The tag has 598,071 stories in total.
- Is the Relationships tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 93% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 21,175 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Relationships?
- 19% 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.