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Pitchfork
Who runs Pitchfork, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest music journalism alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Stereogum
Measured from Pitchfork’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Pitchfork01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Pitchfork
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Pitchfork 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
8 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Pitchfork
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Pitchfork, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 02
Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground
Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.
Very close - 03
NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News
NME brings you the latest music and pop culture news and reviews, along with videos and galleries, band features, concert tickets, magazine, radio and more.
Very close - 04
Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Very close - 05 Spin spin.com
American music magazine
Very close - 06
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close - 07
Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Very close - 08
BARKS | アーティストの新曲・動画・ライブ・コンサート情報をお届けする音楽メディア
アーティストの新曲・動画・ライブ・コンサート情報をお届けする音楽メディア
Very close - 09
Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
Very close - 10
VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.
Very close - 11
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Very close - 12
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 13
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 14
Digiday — The home of modern media and marketing
Digiday is the leading voice of the media and marketing industry and how they are being disrupted by technology.
Very close - 15
New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
Very close - 16
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close - 17
designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news
est. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. daily news for a professional and creative audience.
Very close - 18
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 19 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close - 20
Discover and Shop What's Next | Highsnobiety
Highsnobiety is a global fashion and media brand passionate about product and the stories that shape them. Discover and shop what's next.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Pitchfork’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Pitchfork 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 Pitchfork 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Pitchfork’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: E9t5zm3mlKuCQdLT0QYTZMkVL9uiRwMMOCnqOIXkrZ8MyqD0aKzSWw==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms69053021
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-28.awsdns-03.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=c2108b9dbc0fc05ff0794006df1c41b6c945bd2c8…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mYtQWl3namqmk5ikMKT48XVnS+XdjdbkLlkWMcN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WUsKOTtUHxPzCx_YTDIKePAJKwKEXMEPWIWn852-EVE
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_eNt9zJgJTzuD2aeCF3ngWg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on pitchfork.com 13/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- PHP · not on pitchfork.com 11/20
- WordPress · not on pitchfork.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on pitchfork.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- OneTrust · not on pitchfork.com 8/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- nginx · not on pitchfork.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on pitchfork.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pitchfork.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on pitchfork.com 6/20