🆚 FC2 vs. Medium
- 📈 Medium is much more popular than FC2.
- 🌎 Medium is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 FC2 is more popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
FC2
MediumType
Blogging platform
Social media platform
About
FC2 is a Japanese blog hosting service.
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
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free version ❌
Member $5/month
Friend of Medium $15/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Medium social media platform is 31 times more popular than FC2.
Total websites
Market share
Blogging Platforms
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Medium is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, while FC2 is more popular in Japan.
United States
Vietnam
United Kingdom
India
Japan
Germany
France
Canada
Turkey
Australia
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Blogging Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Medium is more popular than FC2 in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Technical/Business Forums
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Substack🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.