Companies Using Medium

I expected Medium to be the tidiest count in this category: one hosted platform, one way to connect a domain. It was the messiest. Our detection first flagged 2,159 live domains in October 2026. A domain counts when it answers with Medium's server header, loads a script from medium.com or has medium.com in its address, and that last test is where the trouble starts. I checked every one, first by DNS and then by loading the page, and 1,590 domains survived, 7th of 31 in Blogging & Syndication, with 874 matched to a company.

What we took out

298 domains weren't Medium. Nearly all have a name ending in "medium.com", and at least 106 are psychics and spiritual mediums by their page title. 220 were dead: 146 point at a block of addresses that older Medium custom-domain setups used and that no longer answer, and the rest no longer resolve, didn't load, show Medium's own "not found" page or belong to 3 suspended accounts. 36 live domains had no Medium left on them, and 7 were gambling pages. That's 561 in all, about a quarter of what the detection found. Sites that only embed Medium posts were rarer than I'd expected, 40 of them, and they stay in the count.

Sales signal: if you hold an older Medium list, re-check it. The look-alikes and dead addresses look like any other small business in a spreadsheet.

What's left

Medium's help centre tells members to point a custom domain at two addresses, 162.159.153.4 and 162.159.152.4. We found 1,101 custom-domain publications, most on those addresses and 46 reached through a proxy or a redirect; 991 loaded Medium's page code in a headless browser, and most of the rest stopped at a bot check. Add 207 name.medium.com addresses, 241 domains that forward to a page on medium.com and the 40 embeds, and that's the 1,590, give or take one domain added after our check.

"About a quarter of what our detection first called Medium wasn't working Medium. The address test caught every site whose name ends in 'medium.com', and there are a lot of psychic mediums out there." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: treat Medium as a settled pool of about 1,550 live publications and forwards, not a growth market. Since 16 March 2026, 179 domains dropped it on at least one hostname, and when I checked, only 7 of them still ran it on another. The chart starts in October because that's the month we cleaned.

Who publishes here

Small, young companies. 61.0% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees, and 89.68% of those with a founding year started in 2010 or later. Publications sit on a blog subdomain (575 of the 1,101) or the bare domain (354). The bigger names give Medium to one team. CRED runs its engineering blog at engineering.cred.club, Thumbtack its company blog at blog.thumbtack.com, Ahrefs a tech blog at tech.ahrefs.com and MIXI a developer blog in Japanese. Investors write here too, Pantera Capital, RRE Ventures and Front Row Ventures among them, and venture firms make up 2.11% of matched companies.

Sales signal: connecting a custom domain to Medium today needs a paid membership, so most of these are teams that chose to pay for reach instead of running their own CMS. Content tools and agencies should talk to whoever owns the blog, usually engineering or marketing.

Where they are and what they do

The United States has 262 matched companies, the United Kingdom 59 and India 52. India's list is full of startups' engineering and product blogs: CRED, Treebo, LiquiLoans, Mindstix and indiagold all publish on Medium. Software Development (18.64%), IT Services (12.66%) and Technology, Information and Internet (12.31%) make up 43.61% of the base. Financial Services (4.69%) and Blockchain Services (2.7%) follow, with Bitkub Blockchain Technology and Reserve in the list.

Sales signal: for developer-relations, hiring-brand or crypto communications services, the Indian and Singaporean publications are a short, well-qualified list. Singapore alone has 18 matched companies, AI Singapore among them.

Moves between platforms

Few domains run Medium beside another blog host. Today 14 Medium domains also run Substack, 5 run Ghost and 4 run beehiiv. Only Blogger and Hashnode have enough shared history to test, and neither passes our switching tests: of 7 domains ever seen with Medium and Blogger, 4 still run both, and of 5 with Hashnode, 3 do. I wouldn't call any of it switching.

What does show up is decay. The 146 domains on retired addresses and the 36 live sites with no Medium left were all still marked as Medium before we checked them, some because the blog had moved onto the company's main site.

"The most useful rows I removed might be the broken ones. 146 domains still point at addresses Medium stopped answering on, so anyone following those blog links gets nothing." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: a blog subdomain aimed at a dead Medium address belongs to a company that needs a blog platform and may not know it. That's a migration pitch for blog hosts and content agencies, with the broken address as the opener.

The stack is Medium's

Apollo (97.3%), Cloudflare's CDN (96.92%), Cloudflare Browser Insights (96.6%) and Google Analytics (91.07%) top the stack, and I found all four in the source of a live publication's page. They describe Medium's template, not the owner. The owners' own choices show in email: Amazon SES on 4.4% of domains, Mailchimp on 2.89%, Mailgun on 2.7%. WordPress appears on 7.04%, and 24 of those 112 domains are the sites that only embed Medium posts.

Sales signal: don't count Medium domains as Google Analytics or Cloudflare customers; those tags belong to Medium. The email tools are the owner's and make a fair qualifier.

What it costs

Medium's membership page, checked on 15 October 2026, lists Medium Member at $50 a year and Friend of Medium at $150, each with a first-year offer ($35 and $105). Both include a custom domain and publications. The help centre adds two limits: no subfolders such as yourdomain.com/blog, and proxies must be switched off.

Sales signal: at $50 a year, price isn't what keeps a company on Medium. Sell control instead. A team that wants its blog at /blog on the main domain can't do it on Medium.

Key takeaways

1. 1,590 domains after removing 561 look-alike, dead, no-longer-Medium and gambling domains.

2. 1,101 custom-domain publications, 207 name.medium.com addresses, 241 forwards and 40 embeds.

3. A small, young, tech-heavy base: 61.0% have ten staff or fewer, 43.61% are in software, internet or IT.

4. India (52) sits close behind the UK (59), with startup engineering blogs prominent.

5. No switching corridor to any rival, and the stack's top tags are Medium's own.

How to use this list

Start from the custom-domain publications, filter by country and company size, and check the blog address still loads before you reach out. For the full list of 1,590 Medium domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.