Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 01/08/2025

Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories and emerging talents. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.

A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:

The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week.

Creators can only win one place in one category on the leaderboard.

Creators cannot win the same category two consecutive weeks.

Creators will win the category that they placed the highest in. However, if the category they placed the highest in is the category they won the previous week, and they placed in another category in a lower place, they will win the category that they did not place in the previous week, in the lower place.

✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨

Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Rachel Deeming - Community Challenge

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Heather Hubler - There was a time I thought the sun was dead

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Donna Fox (HKB) - About This Story...

🌟 Honorable Mentions

Tiffany Gordon - Label Me Weird... My Official Poem For Antoni De'leon's What Would You Do With $280,000. A January $ Challenge...

Cathy holmes - Perhaps

L.C. Schäfer - Can't Stop

Raymond G. Taylor - Champions among champions

John Cox - All Aboard! Train 2025 leaving the Station!

✨ Popular Stories with the Most Likes this Week ✨

These are the stories that captured hearts (literally) and commanded admiration.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Iconoclast - Introducing Vocal Deep Cuts: The Poetry Collection

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Andrea Corwin - I am IT

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): S. A. Crawford - 10 Magazines That Pay for Fiction

✨ Most Subscribed to Creators this Week ✨

These creators have shown they have what it takes to build a following, attracting the most new subscribers this week.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Dr. Jason Benskin

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Judith Jascha

✨ Most Supportive Commenters this Week ✨

The pillars of our community, these creators excel in uplifting others by leaving the most comments.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Maryam Batool

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Emily Binkley

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Mother Combs

✨ Emerging Creators✨

These creators have joined the platform within the last 90 days and achieved the highest combined likes and comments on their story, showcasing their rapidly growing impact on the community.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): verse voyager

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Scott Gese

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): K.A. Smith

Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.

Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.