With the DSA, the major Internet platforms must comply with the requirements of the European Union under penalty of heavy fines, in particular by declaring their audience. Here is the list of the most used sites and services in Europe.

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With the DSA the major Internet platforms must comply with

With the DSA, the major Internet platforms must comply with the requirements of the European Union under penalty of heavy fines, in particular by declaring their audience. Here is the list of the most used sites and services in Europe.

The digital giants have something to worry about! Since the Digital Services Act (DAS, or Legislation on digital services in French) came into force last November – alongside the Digital Market Act (DMA) – online platforms and search engines active in the European Union – even if they do not reside there – must comply with a set of rules and obligations put in place by the European Union (see our article). Among them: publish information relating to the monthly average of their active users in order to determine the scope of their services, and thus target in particular the largest platforms which give increased visibility to their content.

Online platforms are those that “connect people or allow content to be shared publicly and can exist in a variety of industries”, explains the Luxembourg government on his site. This is particularly the case for social networks, app stores, online marketplaces and stores, and cloud services. Search engines, on the other hand, “allow Internet users to carry out searches on the basis of a request, about any subject, either using a keyword, or a voice request or an expression” sifting through the internet and all online content. The GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft) are obviously targeted as a priority, but not only. The list of companies concerned is quite changing because, while some platforms break through and reach the top, others, like Yahoo, disappear. Such is the harsh law of the Internet!

DSA: obligations for popular platforms

Fight against cyberviolence, counterfeiting and manipulation of information, but also protection of freedom of expression and accountability of platforms… The DSA aims to better prevent the abuses of large technology groups by more strictly regulating their activities, but also to put in place unique protection rules within the countries of the European Union. Are particularly concerned the sites with important frequentations, colossal incomes, gigantic databases, massive storage capacities and a great capacity to influence the sector. Platforms that exceed 45 million users per month – or around 10% of the European population – will also have greater obligations as well as more severe penalties. Thanks to the DSA, the European Commission will be able to impose fines of up to 6% of global turnover, which represents billions of euros for the Internet giants. It even authorizes itself to prohibit the activities of the companies concerned within the European Union!

Within the European authorities, we speak of VLOP (very large online platforms) and VLOSE (very large online search engines) for platforms and search engines with more than 45 million monthly active users. Clothilde Goujard, journalist for Politicorevealed in a thread on Twitter the ranking of the most frequented websites and web services in Europe according to the data communicated directly by the companies (the number of users is understood to be per month):

  1. YouTube: 401.7 million users
  2. Google (search engine): 332 million users
  3. Google Maps: 278.6 million users
  4. Google Play: 274.6 million users
  5. Facebook: 255 million users
  6. Instagram: 250 million users
  7. Wikipedia: 151.5 million users
  8. TikTok: 125 million users
  9. LinkedIn: 122 million users
  10. Bing: 107 million users
  11. Twitter: 100.9 million users
  12. Snapchat: 96.8 million users
  13. Google Shopping: 74.9 million users
  14. Waze: 40.2 million users
  15. Vinted: 37.4 million users
  16. Telegram: 38.5 million users
  17. Otto: 37.6 million users
  18. Quora: 36.4 million users
  19. Skyscanner: 34 million users
  20. Pornhub: 33 million users
  21. Google Chrome WebStore: 32.3 million users
  22. Zalando: 30.8 million users
  23. Airbnb: 30.6 million users
  24. Google Hotels: 30.6 million users
  25. Leboncoin: 26.6 million users
  26. Roblox: 25.2 million users
  27. Fnac: 24 million users
  28. Epic Games Store: 21.3 million users
  29. BeReal: 18 million users
  30. Fortnite: 16.3 million players
  31. Wallapop: 12.9 million users
  32. DuckDuckGo: 11 million users
  33. GitHub: between 10 and 11 million users
  34. Cdiscount: 10.9 million users
  35. Reddit: 10.2 million users
  36. Wolt: 10 million users
  37. Adobe Lightroom: 9.7 million users
  38. Darty: 8.9 million users
  39. YouPorn: 7.3 million users
  40. Glassdoor: 6 million users
  41. Google Things: 3.6 million users
  42. Adobe Behance: 1.5 million users
  43. Autovit.ro: 1.5 million users
  44. Wix: 1.3 million users
  45. Adobe Stock: 1,067,771 users
  46. Lego Ideas: 800,000 users
  47. Adobe Creative Cloud Express: 393,352 users
  48. chess24.com: less than 250,000 users
  49. Adobe Photoshop Express: 150,864 users.

Other services also attract more than 45 million users per month, but they have not yet communicated the exact number:

  • AliExpress
  • Amazon
  • pinterest
  • App Store
  • Booking.com

A total of 18 services are considered to be VLOPs. Unsurprisingly, we find there the services of the groups Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Snapchat, ByteDance, Pinterest or even Wikipedia. Other services, such as Spotify, eBay, OnlyFans, Uber, TripAdvisor, Rakuten, Discord, Nintendo or even certain Apple and Microsoft platforms, indicate that they have less than 45 million users per month, without giving precise figures. . We see that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is not that far from its big competitor Google Search. The giants of music streaming, on the other hand, are not in the game. As for YouTube, it dominates its sector without any real competitor.



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