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Who runs BBC, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest public broadcaster alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Channel 4
Measured from BBC’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit BBC01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs BBC
BBC bbc.co.uk
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
Wikidata: British public service broadcaster
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What BBC tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
6 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to BBC
None of the 60 sites closest to BBC match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what BBC adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 373 ms
Built with
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080027-BER
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9b850a4a56e3fac19aea1e0ac5db302e5cefab444…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=jFFO0rdS9IrxgWUR
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=SQsgJ5h/FqwMTXuSG/G4Nd1Gx6uX2keREOsZSa2…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=50f10407-e3e4-4f6a-aae4-712d4eb31329
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=l5djk65wpy3z
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=bbBoRRQK3gh_LKZJdXpLFcvTT3vy-5obci6r8…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Rhy5gpa1LeMjUY6gxrds3K4bhB_SUv-fYU9D3kpeAc8
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=wMCDUxtzgNFdmaVVeB6w6mDT8srz7ZIWqzV31zPu
Sitemaps
, 21,562 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on bbc.co.uk 19/20
- Adobe 14/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on bbc.co.uk 12/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on bbc.co.uk 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on bbc.co.uk 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on bbc.co.uk 7/20
- Akamai · not on bbc.co.uk 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Slack 5/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on bbc.co.uk 5/20
- React · not on bbc.co.uk 5/20
- Zoom · not on bbc.co.uk 4/20
- Dropbox 4/20