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Who runs ESPN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest sports media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Bleacher Report
Measured from ESPN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ESPN01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ESPN
ESPN espn.com
Visit ESPN for live scores, highlights and sports news. Stream exclusive games on ESPN and play fantasy sports.
Wikidata: American broadcast sports network
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ESPN 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
2 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ESPN
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ESPN, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Bleacher Report | Sports. Highlights. News. Now.
Fan easier, fan faster and fan better with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights and scores for all your favorite sports.
Very close - 02
NBC Sports - news, scores, stats, rumors, videos, and more
Stay up-to-date with the latest sports news and scores from NBC Sports.
Very close - 03
CBS Sports | News, live scores, schedules, Fantasy, and more
CBS Sports delivers today's top sports news, live scoring, stats and player info for NFL, NBA, MLB and more of your favorite leagues.
Very close - 04
FOX Sports News, Scores, Schedules, Odds, Shows, Streams & Videos | FOX Sports
Watch FOX Sports and view live scores, odds, team news, player news, streams, videos, stats, standings & schedules covering NFL, MLB, NASCAR, INDYCAR, NBA, NHL, college sports & more!
Very close - 05
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated, SI.com provides sports news, expert analysis, highlights, stats and scores for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football, soccer, fantasy, gambling and more
Very close - 06
sports website founded in 2009
Very close - 07
FanSided Sports News & Updates: NFL, NBA, MLB, College & More
FanSided - Your go-to source for sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. Stay updated on news, analysis, and fandom across a range of topics.
Very close - 08
Sports Scores, News & Schedules | theScore
Live sports scores, breaking news, schedules, and updates across the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAs and more. Stay up to date with every game on theScore.
Very close - 09
NFL International Homepage | NFL.com Official Site of the National Football League
The official home for the NFL's International fans.
Very close - 10
Sport-News, Liveticker, Live-Streaming und Ergebnisse - Eurosport
Eurosport ist Ihre Anlaufstelle für Sport News, Videos, Live-Kommentare und Highlights. Alle Infos rund um Ihre Lieblingsevents an einem Platz.
Very close - 11
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 - 12
MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball
Coverage includes audio and video clips, interviews, statistics, schedules and exclusive stories.
Very close - 13
TSN - Canada's Sports Leader
Get the latest news, scores and analysis on TSN.ca, Canada's Sports leader.
Very close - 14
American college sports news media group
Very close - 15 Very close
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OneFootball: Football News, Scores & Latest Updates
Follow over 100 football leagues and competitions worldwide with live scores, breaking news, standings, stats and the latest updates from your favourite teams.
Very close - 17
MARCA - Sports News Today and Live Sports in English
Latest sports news, videos, and scores. Everything you need to know about NFL, NBA, Boxing, Soccer, MLB and US Sports.
Very close - 18
college sports website focused on news and recruiting
Very close - 19
Football Live Scores, Latest Football Results | Flashscore.com
Football live scores page on Flashscore.com offers all the latest football results from more than 1000+ football leagues all around the world including EPL, LaLiga, Serie A, Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League and more. Find all today's/tonight's football scores on Flashscore.com.
Very close - 20
North American professional basketball league
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ESPN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ESPN 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 ESPN 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ESPN’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
- Advertising
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net mx ip4:74.123.203.125 ip4:74.123.200.…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: ChBsTS_rzYrxmAGXT8E-m91Yq-QOMJ_hz4HHzUBZPtvtYqfWJmvDIg==
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX espn-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-846.awsdns-41.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=012b7d24aff9766444b9232173abb52ef026139e5…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=5lqJwtfJPMHqC/aGvT/7s2BR53IHCs9P6vFjCQY…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=WmByBdRldeLifoeVTzfTgA
- DocuSign TXT docusign=0f5ff8fc-4420-4d52-9877-33f1485d191f
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=f8opl8j5mr5e
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=DM1CrNK7K2cq6YvNdmMPeIZBNQxxqw0a6ENutWnHoJQ
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=0y89pokpwmy3a9yqhuqx0wg8r23l9p
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on espn.com 10/20
- OneTrust · not on espn.com 10/20
- React · not on espn.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Apple Business · not on espn.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Next.js · not on espn.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on espn.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on espn.com 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on espn.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20