🆚 Medium vs. Pinterest

Type

Social media platform
Social media platform

About

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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Pinterest is a visual discovery and social media platform for sharing and organizing images and videos using Pins, which are visual bookmarks linked to external content and grouped into themed boards.

It hosts billions of Pins and supports visual search with camera-based discovery, collaborative and private boards with sections, and built-in messaging.

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Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Member$5/month
Friend of Medium$15/month
Free ✔️

Categories

Social Media › Rank #27
Social Media › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pinterest social media platform is 21 times more popular than Medium.
Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pinterest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, while Medium is more popular in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Helena, and Antigua and Barbuda.
United States
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Germany
India
Canada
Indonesia
Netherlands
France
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pinterest is more popular than Medium in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Real Estate
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,391
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Rank
#110
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See also

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