vocal.media
Vocal
Who runs Vocal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online publishing platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Medium
Measured from Vocal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Vocal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Vocal
Vocal vocal.media
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Vocal 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
8 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
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.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Vocal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Vocal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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Very close - 02
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Very close - 03
Substack
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Very close - 04
YouTube
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Very close - 05
Fanvue
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Very close - 06
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Very close - 07
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Very close - 08
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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
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Very close - 10
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
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KICK
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Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
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Very close - 18 skillshare.com English
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Very close - 19
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Very close - 20
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Vocal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Vocal 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 Vocal 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Vocal’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
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Heap page source: cdn.heapanalytics.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:datadriven…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=31be56731c44a39a2e9cdea473b6b036be3f8e26edecb07ec…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577b4364f86e31b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:datadriven…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS phil.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ILRSWG-MBqdOhnI7sBtAtoDhlVU01HAUE4LhKyeIeFI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7d049fu5z4001vp5f15iyd1ph0lpvg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on vocal.media 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on vocal.media 9/20
- Apple Business · not on vocal.media 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Zendesk · not on vocal.media 6/20
- Atlassian · not on vocal.media 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on vocal.media 6/20
- OpenAI · not on vocal.media 5/20
- OneTrust · not on vocal.media 5/20
- React 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on vocal.media 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on vocal.media 4/20