🆚 SoundCloud vs. Spotify for Creators
- 📈 SoundCloud is much more popular than Spotify for Creators.
- 🌎 SoundCloud is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Spotify for Creators is more popular in Madagascar.
SoundCloud
Spotify for CreatorsType
About
SoundCloud is an online music streaming and distribution platform that allows musicians upload, share, and monetize audio tracks, while listeners discover and engage with content.
It hosts over 400 million tracks, supports social features such as a feed based on friends’ likes and follows, direct in-app messaging, public commenting on tracks, personalized recommendations, playlists with up to 500 tracks, and offers analytics and messaging tools for artists.
Spotify for Creators is a free platform for creating, hosting, and distributing podcasts and video shows, formerly known as Anchor, that combines publishing, audience management, and monetization tools in one service.
It provides free hosting with 
RSS distribution to major listening platforms, supports both audio and video podcast publishing, and includes audience analytics with engagement features such as comments and polls.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in South Africa in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Canada in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Vietnam in the Audio Streaming category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Podigee🗃️ 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 3,512,799 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.