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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

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01 · 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

Fewer trackers than UpworthyNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Upworthy 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 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 and search numbers · 15 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
120 ms

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.upworthy.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics
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
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all
DNS hosting
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