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Channel 4
Who runs Channel 4, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest broadcast video streaming alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Channel 5
Measured from Channel 4’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Channel 401 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Channel 4
Channel 4 channel4.com
Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents
Wikidata: British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Channel 4 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 15 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Channel 4
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Channel 4, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
No access outside UK
British TV station
Very close - 02
British online video on demand service
Very close - 03
BBC - Home
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.
Very close - 04
France TV - Replay et Direct tv des chaînes France Télévisions
Retrouvez toutes les vidéos, articles et podcasts des programmes des chaînes de France Télévisions.
Very close - 05
Virgin Media Television - Live and On-Demand on Virgin Media Player (formerly TV3 and 3player)
Entertainment, News, Sport, Soaps and all your favourite Irish and International shows from Virgin Media Television live and on-demand.
Close - 06
U - Watch FREE On Demand | Drama | Comedy | Entertainment
U is the on demand home of U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W & U&Yesterday. Stream thousands of hours of the best comedy, drama, entertainment & documentaries for free.
Very close - 07
RaiPlay, Molto più di quanto immagini
I contenuti di RaiPlay sono gratuiti. L'offerta comprende: 14 canali TV RAI in diretta streaming, la Guida Tv per poter rivedere i programmi andati in onda e un vasto catalogo di programmi TV, serie, fiction, film, documentari, concerti, oltre a tutti i programmi di intrattenimento
Very close - 08
TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge
Irish-language television network
Very close - 09
Franco-German television channel and network
Close - 10
Telecinco | Noticias de última hora, realities, programas y series
Programas de televisión, realities, series, vídeos, noticias y famosos. Todo el contenido de nuestra programación. Telecinco, TV en directo y online gratis
Very close - 11
La7 - Video, news, dibattiti e approfondimenti
La7: video, notizie, approfondimenti, dibattiti ed intrattenimento. Rivivi i programmi e gli speciali di La7: Otto e mezzo, Piazzapulita, diMartedì, L'Aria che Tira, Faccia a Faccia, Bersaglio Mobile, Non è l'Arena, Propaganda Live, The Tonight Show con Jimmy Fallon e i Tg di Enrico Mentana.
Very close - 12
Latest breaking news available as free video on demand | Euronews
Latest breaking news available as free video on demand. Stay informed on European and world news about economy, politics, diplomacy… with Euronews.
Close - 13
ZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauen
Alle Videos und Livestreams im ZDF anschauen - ständig verfügbar und interaktiv! Entdecke Filme, Serien, Sportevents, Dokumentationen und vieles mehr!
Very close - 14
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
Close - 15
News website
Close - 16
Japanese broadcasting company
Close - 17
MTV Germany | Homepage
MTV bringt seinen Zuschauern die besten Lifestyle-Serien, Reality-Wettbewerbe und Live-Veranstaltungen.
Very close - 18
ABC Network - ABC.com
Watch the ABC Shows online at abc.com. Get exclusive videos and free episodes.
Close - 19
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
Close - 20
American broadcast television network
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Channel 4’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Channel 4 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 Channel 4 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Channel 4’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
- A/B testing
- Optimizely page source: cdn.optimizely.com/js/
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 3544 0 pmb=mRUM,2
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.16.14.52 ip4:195.140.184.0/22 ip4:91.192.40.0/22 includ…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms29366648
- Mimecast MX eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.16.14.52 ip4:195.140.184.0/22 ip4:91.192.40.0/22 includ…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-614.awsdns-12.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=74fv47FmtsFTQKexq3E3Aoc9wzfloilWotg0sGO9zHM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=aoj6xe4ia6zv9pa60oyg0gb8b09qn9
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_Y2dFAf9XSvKUg2ORTS2gbA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Apple Business · not on channel4.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on channel4.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on channel4.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on channel4.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on channel4.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on channel4.com 5/20
- Next.js · not on channel4.com 5/20
- React · not on channel4.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on channel4.com 4/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on channel4.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on channel4.com 3/20
- Dropbox · not on channel4.com 3/20