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TheTVDB
Who runs TheTVDB, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest TV and film database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- themoviedb.org
Measured from TheTVDB’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit TheTVDB01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs TheTVDB
TheTVDB thetvdb.com
Wikidata: wiki-like site for TV series
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What TheTVDB 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
6 of the 9 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to TheTVDB
None of the 60 sites closest to TheTVDB match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TheTVDB 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 and search numbers · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://unpkg.com/react@17.0.2/umd/react.production.min.js
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/autocomplete.js/0/autocomplete.jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans:400,700&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,latin…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: gtag('config', 'G-
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: PkdeCmAU23E_PiXwsyCnTl6ygjSzUCIdTls1r4CqpP1XphyB2oNYPg==
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/instantsearch.js@3.5.3
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/react@17.0.2/umd/react.production.min.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Site search
- Algolia page source: algoliasearch
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-550.awsdns-04.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=f-fCWc2u1dzQSdPzix74BcjCIVcpeJ-MtgG53vs0cTU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on thetvdb.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thetvdb.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Atlassian · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Google Analytics 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront 2/20
- Matomo · not on thetvdb.com 2/20
- Sentry · not on thetvdb.com 2/20