🆚 Facebook vs. Medium

📈 Facebook is much more popular than Medium.
🌍 Facebook is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Facebook

Medium

Type

Social media platform

About

Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta.

It enables users to create profiles, post text, photos, and videos, join groups, follow pages, and interact through reactions and comments. With about 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook is currently the most popular social media platform in the world.

Medium is an online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system.

It provides a minimalist editor for long-form writing, supports publications for multi-author content, newsletters, and distributes content through algorithmic and editorial recommendations.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

facebook.com #2

medium.com #41

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free version ❌

Member$5/month

Friend of Medium$15/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Facebook social media platform is 259 times more popular than Medium.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Facebook is more popular than Medium in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Italy

France

Spain

Japan

Australia

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Media category.

🔥 12nd most popular in India in the Social Media category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Turkey in the Social Media category.
🔥 14th most popular in the Philippines in the Social Media category.
🔥 14th most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Facebook is more popular than Medium in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Travel

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Health

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#17

Name

Rank

#651

#1,174

#1,391

#1,469