⚡ Blogging Platforms in Germany

Blogging platforms are web-based services that allow users to create, publish, and manage blog posts, often combining content creation, hosting, and audience interaction.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our data, blogging platforms are used on 0.4% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 244K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top blogging platforms in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Tumblr with an impressive share of 47%, followed by WordPress.com with 21.6% and Medium with 16.2%.

Tumblr 47%
WordPress.com 21.6%
Medium 16.2%
Substack 8.7%
Blogger 7%
Tumblr (Hosted) 1.3%
Substack (Hosted) 0.5%
Movable Type 0.3%
Medium (Hosted) 0.2%
Tistory 0.1%
Tistory (Hosted) 0.1%
Hatena Blog 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Medium ^(-1)
4. Substack ^(-1)
8. Movable Type ^(-3)
9. Medium (Hosted) ^(-3)
11. Tistory (Hosted) ^(-3)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 12 blogging platforms used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social networking platform that allows users to publish multimedia posts, interact with others, and host blogs on custom domains. Free$6.99/month	47%
2	WordPress.com San Francisco, California, United States A managed WordPress platform that handles hosting, performance, security, and maintenance so site owners can focus on content. $4+/month	21.6%
3	Medium San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system. $5+/month	16.2%
4	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	8.7%
5	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	7%
6	Tumblr (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A blogging platform that lets users connect custom domains to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	1.3%
7	Substack (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains. Free$50	0.5%
8	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.3%
9	Medium (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows users to run blogs on custom domains using its hosting and publishing infrastructure. $5+/month	0.2%
10	Tistory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A South Korean blogging platform and social networking service. Free	0.1%
11	Tistory (Hosted) Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A Korean blog hosting platform that allows users to publish personal and team blogs on custom domains. Free	0.1%
12	Hatena Blog Kyoto, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to publish and manage personal or professional blogs with customizable domains and themes. Free¥1,008/month	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Blogging Platforms in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 244,913 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 19 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.