Medium “Self Improvement” tag statistics
How busy the Self Improvement 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 800 stories from the last 1.7 days
Busier than 95% of 73 tracked tags
18% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 476 stories a day, Self Improvement is busier than 95% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (28,233 followers per daily story) is higher than 45% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
59% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 18% 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 Self Improvement stories
| Publication | Followers | Self Improvement stories (last 1.7d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 144 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 102 |
| Nudge | 838 | 50 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 33 |
| No Time | 14K | 29 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 28 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 24 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 20 |
| Infinite Impulse | 4.8K | 15 |
| Growth Theory | 154 | 15 |
Top Self Improvement stories right now
- What Writing Can’t Do
- “You Said I Could Trust You”
- Do You Love Yourself Enough to Do Nothing?
- We Need to Stop Romanticising the Pressure to Keep Art as a Side Hustle
- Love Does Not Look for Loopholes
- Comfort Feels Good, But It Doesn’t Always Make You Grow
- The Pressure to Have Your Life Figured Out by 30 Is Breaking Us
- How to Enjoy a Trip Without Spending Too Much
- Manifestation Isn’t Magic; It’s a Mindset That Demands Action
- You’re In The Wrong Circle
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Self Improvement tag on Medium?
- About 476 per day (3,334 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 1.7-day window before our last scan. The tag has 925,359 stories in total.
- Is the Self Improvement tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 95% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 28,233 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Self Improvement?
- 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. 59% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.