ted.com
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
Measured from TED’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit TED01 · 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.
11 of the 60 sites closest to TED match.
- 01
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 02
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 03
TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge
Irish-language television network
Very close - 04
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Very close - 05
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 06
Checking your browser
Very close - 07
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 08
Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
Close - 09
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 10
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 11
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: js-agent.newrelic.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kiad7000199-IAD, cache-ber1080021-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.27.5
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-191.awsdns-23.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4timsOUsdaVIPDVxoNaau9lRel9P83lqXmmmtsI…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=o-gjQy5XSCZFLMlzw9BblQ
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UIn4zpG4F9qybIzoM2BeT-O2H3RG6M4vgoC_n8CPzW0
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ted.com 15/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- OpenAI · not on ted.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on ted.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ted.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ted.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on ted.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on ted.com 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on ted.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on ted.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on ted.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- PHP · not on ted.com 6/20