stereogum.com
Stereogum
Who runs Stereogum, 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
- Pitchfork
Measured from Stereogum’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Stereogum01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Stereogum
Stereogum stereogum.com
The world's best music blog.
Wikidata: American news site and weblog for indie music
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Stereogum 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
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 17 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Stereogum
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Stereogum, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in Music. | Pitchfork
The Most Trusted Voice in Music.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
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 - 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
Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Very close - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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
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 - 11
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 - 12
News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Very close - 13
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close - 14
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 - 15
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 - 16
New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
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
CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
Very close - 19
Thrillist - Adventure is always around the corner.
Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.
Very close - 20
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Stereogum’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Stereogum 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 Stereogum 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Stereogum’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 page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 a mx include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com includ…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS zod.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=57YfMdgD9DldxdIvzy_Zet-1fFYngI9M8TPxyG…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=NM7t4IJ66SBvNIO4unHptWJcwlJEr6WKihoQNlZ4Nj0
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=76r2gxdsels5l8ktpf26v873eqgal9
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on stereogum.com 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- PHP 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on stereogum.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on stereogum.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on stereogum.com 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on stereogum.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on stereogum.com 7/20
- jQuery · not on stereogum.com 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- OneTrust · not on stereogum.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on stereogum.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20