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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
None of the 60 sites closest to Pitchfork 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 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 and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 ms
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