🆚 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.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
RutubeType
Video platform
Video platform
About
Niconico is a Japanese online video sharing service.
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.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Moscow, Russia
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Premium ¥790+/month
Free version ✔️
Premier 399 RUB/month
Categories
Video Platforms › Rank #20
Video Platforms › Rank #6
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Rutube video platform is 10 times more popular than Niconico.
Total websites
Market share
Video Platforms
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Rutube is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, while Niconico is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Vietnam.
Russia
Japan
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
United States
Germany
Vietnam
United Kingdom
Kyrgyzstan
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
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Rutube is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Niconico is more commonly used on games sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Health
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,629,123 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.