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. It is the 11th most popular website in Japan overall (as of January 2018). FC2 is a US corporation, and according to an interview article by representative Takahiro Rihiro published in the magazine "Yahoo! Internet Guide" May issue in 2006, as of 2006, It is run by two people, his brother Takahashi Takahiro and his younger brother Takahashi Riyo, with 17 full-time employees and approximately 30 part-time staff. More information...
According to PR-model, fc2.com is ranked 1,902nd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 151st in Japanese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before jst.go.jp and after chroniclelive.co.uk in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.