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TED

Who runs TED, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest educational video talks alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Big Think

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs TED

TED ted.com

TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. Ideas free to stream and download.

Wikidata: global set of conferences

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What TED 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.

tracker that follows visitors

5 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to TED

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TED, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than TEDNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Big Think bigthink.com

    multimedia web portal

    Compare Big Think with TED →
  2. 02
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

    Compare Khan Academy with TED →
  3. 03
    InfoQ infoq.com English 3 trackers

    InfoQ: Software Development News, Trends & Best Practices - InfoQ

    Helping dev teams adopt new technologies and practices. Written by software engineers. Read by over 1.5 million developers worldwide.

    Compare InfoQ with TED →
  4. 04
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

    Compare MasterClass with TED →
  5. 05
    ZDNET zdnet.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET

    see all latest

    Compare ZDNET with TED →
  6. 06
    Perl.com perl.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Perl.com - programming news, code and culture

    Since 1997 Perl.com has published articles about the Perl programming language, its culture and community.

    Compare Perl.com with TED →
  7. 07
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

    Compare GitHub with TED →
  8. 08
    Mashable mashable.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    Mashable

    Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.

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  9. 09
    Bloomberg News bloomberg.com Top 1K

    international news agency

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  10. 10
    Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

    Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video

    Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.

    Compare Semafor with TED →
  11. 11
    BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    BuzzFeed

    BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.

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  12. 12
    Politico politico.eu Top 10K English 3 trackers

    POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News

    POLITICO Europe covers the politics, policy and personalities of the European Union. Our coverage includes breaking news, opinion pieces, and features.

    Compare Politico with TED →
  13. 13
    CNET cnet.com Top 1K English 4 trackers

    CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET

    Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.

    Compare CNET with TED →
  14. 14
    TG4 tg4.ie English No trackers

    TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge

    Irish-language television network

    Compare TG4 with TED →
  15. 15
    ard.de German No trackers

    ARD.de – TV, Radio, Streams, News, Sport und alles zur ARD | ard.de

    Die ganze ARD: Fernsehen, Livestreams, Radio, Podcasts, Nachrichten, Sport und Kinderkanal. Zudem Infos über den Medienverbund und ARD-Pressemeldungen.

    Compare ard.de with TED →
  16. 16
    Newsmax newsmax.com

    American news website

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  17. 17
    golem.de German 4 trackers

    Golem.de - IT News für Profis

    Golem.de - Ständig aktuelle IT-News für Profis und Videos aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft über Hardware, Software, Telekommunikation, Games

    Compare golem.de with TED →
  18. 18
    Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

    kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

    Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

    Compare Jason Kottke with TED →
  19. 19
    Inc. inc.com Top 10K

    business magazine

    Compare Inc. with TED →
  20. 20
    Upworthy upworthy.com English 4 trackers

    The Best In Us - Upworthy

    At Upworthy, we make the best in humanity more visible so it becomes more possible. ✨ Together with our community, creators, and partners, we create stories, ideas, and experiences that change how people see themselves and the world, and inspire them to add more good to it.

    Compare Upworthy with TED →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles TED’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones TED uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TED 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
30 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to TED’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.

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