An assembly includes a mounting bracket that defines one or more mounting bracket holes, one or more fasteners configured to secure the mounting bracket to an archery bow via the one or more mounting bracket holes, and a light source coupled to the mounting bracket and configured to illuminate a distance marker tape of the archery bow. The distance marker tape light assembly can be used to illuminate distance marker tape on a variety of archery bows. The distance marker tape light assembly can be considered a universal distance marker tape light assembly due to the large number of different archery bows on which the distance maker light assembly can be effective.