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Nielsen
Who runs Nielsen, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest audience measurement alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Comscore
Measured from Nielsen’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Nielsen01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Nielsen
Nielsen nielsen.com
A global leader in media measurement, analytics and insights, Nielsen shapes the future of media with accurate measurement of what people listen to and watch worldwide.
Wikidata: global information, data and measurement company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Nielsen 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
14 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 4 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Nielsen
None of the 60 sites closest to Nielsen 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 Nielsen 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 · 24 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- A/B testing
- AB Tasty page source: try.abtasty.com
- CDN
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms67552876
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns5.ultradns.info
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=d4250894cee614bbe020fa949280b0ad410c6b293…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=JTibV8tKhqrsFjn5
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=sTb4hFWtIi5V/G7/I/PG5eYIA95YUMrC+ucuxck…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=eff616df-1c79-4f17-a483-41df197156e0
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=VvDpOdxqrg1tm5Pqkg2JSk9H5WqnI_O1VYhH7…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: bPdh6cvphxV-O-QpLdIxOsNO7kNm9hB02TY-Fx_cJD4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=sl8du0ke9guurybwg45jxj8i479ev7
- Miro TXT miro-verification=bd31f86ea27054eddbcf39ef767cce5163f1d7dd
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on nielsen.com 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 11/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- Salesforce · not on nielsen.com 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on nielsen.com 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- HubSpot · not on nielsen.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on nielsen.com 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- nginx 5/20