upworthy.com
Upworthy
Who runs Upworthy, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital media publisher alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- BuzzFeed
Measured from Upworthy’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Upworthy01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Upworthy
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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.
Wikidata: Media brand for positive storytelling
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Upworthy 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, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Upworthy
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Upworthy, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close - 02
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Very close - 03
Mashable
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Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
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Very close - 05
ScoopWhoop - Trending Viral Stories
Get the latest stories on Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle, Travel, Humour, and Opinions on ScoopWhoop.
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
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 08
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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 - 10
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
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American news website
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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.
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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 - 16
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
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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 - 18
AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides
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Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Upworthy’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Upworthy 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 Upworthy 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Upworthy’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 libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.upworthy.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net ?all
- 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 include:mailgun.org ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-562.awsdns-06.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DB3wd6i1lrIXcc64
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=KGGPxZTljntNuhXtwn8XgxduaNwNNWTC3gor_…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uVat-KAWajrF5bolggbyYinaR6jyd8eeFB0afmn_SRI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=jue4v89bvl11q68r5cfutqjxjc7lgf
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on upworthy.com 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- OneTrust · not on upworthy.com 10/20
- Adobe · not on upworthy.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on upworthy.com 8/20
- Atlassian · not on upworthy.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on upworthy.com 7/20
- Fastly · not on upworthy.com 7/20
- React · not on upworthy.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- Next.js · not on upworthy.com 6/20
- nginx 6/20