FC2 (portal)

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FC2

Type of site	Blog, Video hosting service
Available in	Japanese (primary), English, Chinese, Thai, Korean, German, Spanish, Russian, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Vietnamese[1]
Subsidiaries	Veoh Networks, Inc.
URL	fc2.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Required for many services, Free or Premium
Launched	July 20, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-07-20)
Current status	Active

FC2 (founded July 20, 1999) is a popular Japanese blogging host, the third most popular video hosting service in Japan (after YouTube and Niconico) and a web hosting company headquartered in the Netherlands.^[2] It is the 11th most popular website in Japan overall (as of January 2018).^[3]