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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.

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than BBCNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

8 of the 60 sites closest to BBC match.

  1. 01
    TG4 tg4.ie English No trackers

    TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge

    Irish-language television network

    Compare TG4 with BBC →
  2. 02
    Channel 5 channel5.com English No trackers

    No access outside UK

    British TV station

    Compare Channel 5 with BBC →
  3. 03
    RFI rfi.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare RFI with BBC →
  4. 04
    France 24 france24.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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

    Compare France 24 with BBC →
  5. 05
    AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare AOL with BBC →
  6. 06
    goal.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare goal.com with BBC →
  7. 07
    LiveScore livescore.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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!

    Compare LiveScore with BBC →
  8. 08
    WBUR wbur.org English No trackers

    WBUR

    WBUR is Boston's NPR, featuring NPR news and programs such as On Point and Here & Now.

    Compare WBUR with BBC →

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

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
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
35 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

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Analytics
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CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080027-BER
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=wMCDUxtzgNFdmaVVeB6w6mDT8srz7ZIWqzV31zPu

Sitemaps

, 21,562 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.