🆚 Substack vs. Substack (Hosted)
- 📈 Substack is much more popular than Substack (Hosted).
- 🌍 Substack is more popular in all countries.
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About
Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.
It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.
Substack is a newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains.
It provides a web-based editor, searchable archives, custom website themes, podcast publishing, SEO settings, and integrated subscriber management for free and paid publications.
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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
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Blogging Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Livedoor Blog🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.