Medium
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.
It incorporates social features such as following authors and topics, personalized feeds, likes, comments, highlights, and sharing to encourage interaction between readers and writers.
According to our data, Medium ranks 28th among the social media platforms we track.
It has 0.3% of the social media market share and is detected on 0.2% of all websites.
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Medium is a commercial product priced starting at $5 per month.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Social Media
- Rank: 28
- Market share: 0.3%
- Blogging Platforms
- Rank: 4
- Market share: 12.4%
🏆 Medium Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Canada in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in India in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
⚡ Sites Using Medium
We have data on 5,507 websites that use the Medium social media platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Medium is poki.com.
| # | Website | 🔗 | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seb_moeys | #651 | English | ||
| 2 | codeorg | #1,391 | United States | American English | |
| 3 | migovernment | #1,469 | United States | English | |
| 4 |  blog.hubspot.com |
HubSpot | United States | English | |
| 5 | t3nbackstageblog | #3,502 | Germany | German | |
| 6 | gradescope | #3,646 | United States | English | |
| 7 | polyagentoffical | #3,667 | China | English | |
| 8 | openweathermap | #3,887 | Germany | English | |
| 9 | veedio | #5,030 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 10 | broihier | #6,457 | United States | English | |
| 11 | evernote | #6,582 | Italy | American English | |
| 12 | bitrue | #6,927 | English | ||
| 13 | arkdefai | #8,836 | English | ||
| 14 | hemezh | #9,202 | India | English | |
| 15 | UKRI | #10,981 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 16 | philhutcheon | #12,336 | American English | ||
| 17 |  streamlit.io |
#12,923 | United States | English | |
| 18 | makeagif | #13,101 | Canada | English | |
| 19 | coinexchinese | #13,994 | English | ||
| 20 | ProcessingOrg | #14,792 | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Medium:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Medium are from the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
- United States 31.9%
- Vietnam 8.8%
- United Kingdom 6.7%
- India 5.9%
- Germany 4.3%
- France 3.3%
- Canada 2.7%
- Turkey 2.4%
- Australia 2%
- Other 32%
Most Medium users speak English or Vietnamese.
- English 78.9%
- Vietnamese 6.7%
- French 1.4%
- German 1.3%
- Turkish 1.3%
- Portuguese 1.3%
- Spanish 1.3%
- Chinese 0.9%
- Italian 0.8%
- Other 6.1%
The Medium social media platform is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 55.7%
- .org 7.5%
- .io 4.2%
- .net 3.9%
- .vn 1.5%
- .co 1.5%
- .co.uk 1.2%
- .me 1.1%
- .de 1%
- Other 22.4%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Medium include business, blogs and wiki, and Internet services.
- Business 23.8%
- Blogs/Wiki 14.3%
- Internet Services 10.2%
- Marketing/Merchandising 6.9%
- Education/Reference 5.4%
- Online Shopping 4.4%
- Software/Hardware 3.9%
- Entertainment 2.9%
- Finance/Banking 2.9%
- Other 25.3%
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Tistory💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Medium's headquarters?
Medium is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use Medium for free?
No, Medium is a paid solution.
How much is Medium per month?
Medium is priced from $5 per month for the Member plan.
Which country uses Medium the most?
The majority of Medium users are from the United States.
Who uses Medium?
According to our data, Medium is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as poki.com,
code.org, and
michigan.gov.
Is Medium used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by michigan.gov. In total, we found Medium on 4 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Medium?
Yes. In total, we know of 5 academic websites in the United States that use Medium.
How does Medium stack up against the competition?
Medium is a moderately popular social media platform, ranking ahead of 59 other social media platforms we track.
What are the alternatives to Medium?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Medium may include 
Tumblr, 
Substack, and Medium (Hosted).
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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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.