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Rolling Stone
Who runs Rolling Stone, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest music and entertainment magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Spin
Measured from Rolling Stone’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Rolling Stone01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone rollingstone.com
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Wikidata: American monthly music magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Rolling Stone 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
13 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 5 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Rolling Stone
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Rolling Stone, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 Spin spin.com
American music magazine
Very close - 02
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in Music. | Pitchfork
The Most Trusted Voice in Music.
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
Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Very close - 05
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 - 06
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 07
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close - 08
Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Very close - 09
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 - 10
Vulture - Entertainment News - TV, Movies, Music, Books, Theater, Art
Vulture is a New York Magazine site providing continuous entertainment news covering TV, movies, music, art, books, theater, comedy, podcasts, celebrities, and the entertainment industry itself.
Very close - 11
Esquire - Men's Fashion, Cocktails, Politics, Interviews, and Women
Esquire is your destination for the latest news headlines, culture coverage, political developments, celebrity interviews, mens fashion advice, and food & drink recipes.
Very close - 12
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 - 13
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 - 14
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 15
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close - 16
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 - 17
HOLA! USA: Celebrity news, royals, entertainment and lifestyle
Top U.S. Latino publication covering celebrities, entertainment, fashion, beauty, recipes, lifestyle and updates about the world’s royals families.
Very close - 18
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 - 19
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 - 20 IndieWire indiewire.com
film industry and review website
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Rolling Stone’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Rolling Stone 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 Rolling Stone 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 · 21 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Rolling Stone’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
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag( 'config', 'AW-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX rollingstone-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-718.awsdns-25.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5f299ac5ccddedab8418f37aad62a1ff499e5979c…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=nprFKP7f9bTtDxCbcLk3c0Ag6DYYRzhq/pIp/XJ…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=O81xyb7YxpdGeHWkniit_VBT4vTXz9__NFrNM…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=vn4y0orqW_cUPEvrE0yaSdIGOIMJ4L-VxYkCkEF5shk
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=un0pzjeye9ylufaptfim3y66d9h9lw
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on rollingstone.com 14/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 14/20
- OneTrust 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Next.js · not on rollingstone.com 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- React · not on rollingstone.com 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- Amazon SES 6/20