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VICE
Who runs VICE, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital news media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- HuffPost
Measured from VICE’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit VICE01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs VICE
VICE vice.com
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.
Wikidata: magazine focused on international arts and culture
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What VICE 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
14 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 7 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.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to VICE
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to VICE, thumbs down if it isn’t.
17 of the 60 sites closest to VICE match.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close - 04
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 - 05
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 06
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 07
Esquire - Men's Fashion, Cocktails, Politics, Interviews, and Women
Esquire is your destination for the latest news headlines, culture coverage, political developments, celebrity interviews, mens fashion advice, and food & drink recipes.
Very close - 08
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets.
Very close - 09
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 10
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
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 - 12
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close - 13
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 14
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 15
FanSided Sports News & Updates: NFL, NBA, MLB, College & More
FanSided - Your go-to source for sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. Stay updated on news, analysis, and fandom across a range of topics.
Very close - 16
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 17
GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles VICE’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones VICE 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 VICE 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 · 22 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to VICE’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 meta generator: WordPress 7.0.8
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- TikTok Pixel page source: analytics.tiktok.com/i18n/pixel
- X (Twitter) Pixel page source: static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:servers.…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.1.1/crypto-js.min.js?ver=4.1.1
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP cookie PHPSESSID
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms95705199
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:servers.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1136.awsdns-14.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=BOrbQ950ceBMRT6K
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=hskXXsfAYScT3KMiq7xVqeq8pA3Dkwaz5RTPEUt…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Fw09cFhmPL_-Bfg6BV5_NkyDEkXJfmQd4uPVi…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=v4Zf8BcP9sjIEkb-rLGU3Ac5H9n1PXQGKR1CLzxXCxw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=p28ly5dk7y0h9ifoyy14yc3uy9q51m
Sitemaps
, 267,784 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Meta Business Suite 16/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Adobe · not on vice.com 12/20
- GlobalSign 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on vice.com 10/20
- OneTrust · not on vice.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Amazon SES 9/20
- Fastly · not on vice.com 9/20
- nginx 8/20
- OpenAI · not on vice.com 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- DocuSign · not on vice.com 7/20