🆚 Instagram vs. Medium
- 📈 Instagram is much more popular than Medium.
- 🌍 Instagram is more popular in all countries.
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About
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms.
It allows users to post photos and short videos with built-in filters and effects, share disappearing Stories and Reels, send direct messages, and use hashtags and geotags for content discovery.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Chile 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.