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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.
19 of the 60 sites closest to Rolling Stone match.
- 01
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The world's best music blog.
Very close - 02
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Featured Content on Myspace
Very close - 03
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Esquire is your destination for the latest news headlines, culture coverage, political developments, celebrity interviews, mens fashion advice, and food & drink recipes.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news
Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.
Very close - 09
Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLE
Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.
Very close - 10
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close - 11
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Very close - 12
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 13
New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider
Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.
Very close - 14
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 - 15
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Very close - 16
ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News
ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!
Very close - 17
/Film | Movie & TV News, Trailers, Interviews, & Reviews
The latest movie and television news, reviews, film trailers, exclusive interviews, and opinions - since 2005.
Very close - 18
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Very close - 19
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 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