🆚 Google Groups vs. WhatsApp

📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Google Groups.
🌍 WhatsApp is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Google Groups

Type

Social media platform

Instant messaging app

About

Google Groups is a web-based mailing list and discussion forum platform that enables users to communicate through shared email addresses and web-based discussions.

It allows users to create public or private discussion groups, archive conversations, manage memberships and moderation, organize events, and use collaborative inboxes.

WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta that enables private messaging, media sharing, and internet-based voice and video communication.

It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, and make voice and video calls including group calls. It also supports end-to-end encryption and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

groups.google.com

whatsapp.com #48

Pricing

Free ✔️

WhatsApp Business, US rate per conversation Free version ✔️ 1,000 free service conversations/month
Marketing $0.025
Authentication $0.0135
Utility $0.004
Service $0

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The WhatsApp instant messaging app is 130 times more popular than Google Groups.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

WhatsApp is more popular than Google Groups in all countries.

Brazil

India

Russia

Spain

Indonesia

Turkey

Italy

Thailand

Argentina

United States

Awards

⬆️ 27th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
⬆️ 34th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

WhatsApp is more popular than Google Groups in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Travel

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Health

Blogs/Wiki

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#9,075

#14,075

#16,046

Name

Rank

#85

#434

#597

#627

#655