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BBC
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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to BBC, thumbs down if it isn’t.
8 of the 60 sites closest to BBC match.
- 01
TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge
Irish-language television network
Very close - 02
No access outside UK
British TV station
Close - 03
RFI - All the news from France, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.
Follow any political information, cultural, sporting and live streaming on RFI. The latest information, news and events around the world.
Very close - 04
France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines
Breaking news and world news from France 24 on Business, Sports, Culture. Video news. News from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, America
Very close - 05
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 06
Soccer News, Live Scores, Results & Transfers | Goal.com US
The latest soccer news, live scores, results, rumors, transfers, fixtures, tables and player profiles from around the world, including Premier League.
Very close - 07
Live Football Scores, Fixtures & Results | LiveScore
Get Live Football Scores and Real-Time Football Results with LiveScore! We cover all Countries, Leagues and Competitions in unbeatable detail. Click Now!
Very close - 08
WBUR
WBUR is Boston's NPR, featuring NPR news and programs such as On Point and Here & Now.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles BBC’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones BBC uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 112 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to BBC’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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