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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

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01 · 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
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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.

Fewer trackers than Channel 4No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

7 of the 60 sites closest to Channel 4 match.

  1. 01
    Channel 5 channel5.com English No trackers

    No access outside UK

    British TV station

    Compare Channel 5 with Channel 4 →
  2. 02
    TG4 tg4.ie English No trackers

    TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge

    Irish-language television network

    Compare TG4 with Channel 4 →
  3. 03
    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 Channel 4 →
  4. 04
    China Central Television cctv.com Top 10K English No trackers

    央视网_世界就在眼前

    央视网(www.cctv.com)由中央广播电视总台主办,是以视频为特色的中央重点新闻网站,是央视的融合传播平台,是拥有全牌照业务资质的大型互联网文化企业。秉承“融合创新、一体发展”的理念,以新闻为龙头,以视频为重点,以用户为中心,建成“一网一端多平台多渠道”融媒体传播体系。

    Compare China Central Television with Channel 4 →
  5. 05
    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 Channel 4 →
  6. 06
    Pluto TV pluto.tv Top 10K English No trackers

    Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies, TV Shows & Live TV Online

    Watch your choice of free hit movies, free binge-worthy TV shows & live TV online, anytime. Stream Now. Pay Never.

    Compare Pluto TV with Channel 4 →
  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 Channel 4 →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
86 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.

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