pressreader.com
PressReader
Who runs PressReader, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital newsstand alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Zinio
Measured from PressReader’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PressReader01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PressReader
PressReader pressreader.com
Wikidata: digital newspaper distribution and technology company based in Canada
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PressReader tracks
We couldn’t read pressreader.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PressReader
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PressReader, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read pressreader.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Digital magazine subscriptions. Over 10,000 publications.
Read your magazines anytime, anywhere. Over 10,000 magazines at your fingertips on the world's largest digital magazine newsstand.
Very close - 02
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 04
Digital Publishing and Content Experience Platform | Joomag
Joomag is a leading Content Experience Platform for creating and distributing high-design content — magazines, catalogs, brochures, proposals and reports that are personalized and interactive.
Very close - 05
Apple
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
Close - 06
Marfeel
A suite of solutions designed for every publisher's needs
Very close - 07
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close - 08
Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.
Very close - 09
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 10
US market research company
Very close - 11
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 - 12
About Sophi - Mather
Very close - 13
Piano | Data-Driven Customer Engagement Solutions
Welcome to Piano, the leading platform for data analytics, audience segmentation, and customer engagement. Discover how we help businesses grow through data-driven insights.
Very close - 14
Chartbeat
Chartbeat provides solutions combining instant real-time insights, rich engagement data, and powerful optimization tools for media publishers
Very close - 15
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 16
Poool | The agentic subscription growth platform for publishers
Poool is the agentic subscription growth platform that combines technology and expertise to build the best-performing paywall and reader journey for your audience in minutes.
Very close - 17
YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide
YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.
Very close - 18
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 19
GlobalComix - Read & Publish Comics & Manga Online Free
Read 100,000+ comics & manga online, free or unlimited Gold access, updated daily. World-class publishing & translation for publishers & creators.
Very close - 20
Manning
Manning publishes books, eBooks, video courses and liveProjects on programming, software engineering, AI, data science and other technology topics, written by practitioners and available in print, eBook and on liveBook.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PressReader’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PressReader 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 PressReader 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
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PressReader’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
- Marketing automation
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:204.50.102.44 ip4:208.181.59.23 ip4:204.50.102.29 ip4:2…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563208d3996b243-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms36475603
- Proofpoint MX mxb-007eaf01.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:204.50.102.44 ip4:208.181.59.23 ip4:204.50.102.29 ip4:2…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:204.50.102.44 ip4:208.181.59.23 ip4:204.50.102.29 ip4:2…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS felipe.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=8226ff74-28f1-48fc-9f3c-a0434c7ab733
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=3c-6TB-cG8LBvkfkOGKMCjIEzTjuPaL-U1mJ_P…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=qLZsgeDZ7eHj_XNXQ-CcnndOI0gxaEdaDR6xo3QXGJc
- Miro TXT miro-verification=4baeb3b58b4dd71f5ca2cd0ecb39c9e7a1acdb0f
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Atlassian · not on pressreader.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on pressreader.com 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on pressreader.com 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on pressreader.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on pressreader.com 8/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- HubSpot 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on pressreader.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on pressreader.com 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on pressreader.com 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20