🆚 Niconico vs. Rutube
- 📈 Rutube is much more popular than Niconico.
- 🌍 Rutube is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
- 🌎 Niconico is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Vietnam.
Niconico
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About
Niconico is a Japanese online video sharing service.
It is known for pioneering the danmaku comment overlay, where user comments scroll over playback, and offers live streaming, an illustration community, subscription channels, a creator incentive program, collaborative tagging, and a market panel for related goods.
Rutube is a Russian video hosting platform positioned as a local alternative and functional clone of 
YouTube for publishing and watching user-generated video content.
It supports video uploads and live streams, channel subscriptions, recommendations and search, comments and likes, advertising-based monetization for creators, and content moderation aligned with Russian regulations.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
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🗃️ 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 3,824,940 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.