🆚 Blogger vs. Substack

Type

Blogging platform
Social media platform

About

Blogger is a free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains.

It provides free hosting and unlimited storage, customizable templates with HTML and CSS editing, custom domain support, comment moderation, SEO-friendly URLs, and Google Analytics and AdSense integration.

Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.

It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.

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Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
For writers
Platform fee 10%
Payment processing
Billing fee 0.7%
Credit card fee 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Most content Free ✔️
Paid subscriptions Varies by writer

Categories

Blogging Platforms › Rank #3
Blogging Platforms › Rank #5
Social Media › Rank #29
Subscriptions › Rank #4
Email Marketing › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Blogger blogging platform is 1.7 times more popular than Substack.
Total websites

Market share

Blogging Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Blogger is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India, while Substack is more popular in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Canada.
United States
Indonesia
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Italy
France
Spain
Canada
Germany

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Blogger is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, technical, business forums, and Internet services, while Substack is more commonly used on entertainment, business, and education and reference sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Sports
Technical/Business Forums
Internet Services
Politics/Opinion

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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