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BuzzFeed

Who runs BuzzFeed, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital entertainment media alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Bored Panda

Measured from BuzzFeed’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 BuzzFeed

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BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.

Wikidata: American internet media and news company

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What BuzzFeed 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.

trackers that follow visitors

6 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 12 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 4 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Amazon Publisher ServicesUS
- Google Ad ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Adobe FontsUS
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to BuzzFeed

Fewer trackers than BuzzFeed No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to BuzzFeed 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 BuzzFeed 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 · 21 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 56 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks: Next.js page source: /_next/static/
React page source: data-reactroot
Fonts: Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
Advertising: Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
CDN: Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200150-IAD, cache-iad-kcgs7200150-IAD, cache…
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms58340428
Email delivery: Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:aspmx.sail…
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1554.awsdns-02.co.uk
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=82dd13381f860472d15ec91a855861633ea9e0f45…
Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=QbcAyK97gEW6u0eK
Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 2B0DFF08E2C0AFEF56B45C60CC005CDF
DocuSign TXT docusign=341d12f2-1af7-4ee4-811e-c9f64a7ea304
Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=qqtc01ox8n54
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=rxc48ocR2PhwobuGALz3D9ljNu6LWDgGmlBkq…
Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 6cl9SMQVEzSOiQzTnrHT6xfEarc4SJOJrI_wQcO5oKo
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=vm5i55h3uxgjns1oyn95c19dqr3d19

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.