Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Limelight
The 20 closest programmatic advertising technology alternatives to Limelight, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Limelight? The closest matches are AdKernel, AdMaster and Buzzoola. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Limelight
Limelight project-limelight.com
Programmatic Platform | Limelight Inc.
Navigate the programmatic landscape with our advanced platform. Contact us for tailored solutions today!
Summary by Claude
Limelight provides a white-label programmatic advertising platform based on OpenRTB. Ad networks, agencies and publishers use it to run their own branded ad exchange and trading environments.
- Who it’s for
- Ad networks, agencies, publishers
- Business model
- Platform licensing / transaction fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Limelight’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Limelight
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Limelight, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
White-Label Ad Tech Infrastructure | AdKernel
White-label infrastructure for your ad-tech business. Launch a DSP, SSP, exchange, ad server, DMP, or retail media network under your brand.
Very close cos 0.905 - 02
AdMaster | AI Advertising Platform
AdMaster: Bring your brands into the real lives of 2 billion users via AI.
Very close cos 0.903 - 03
Buzzoola - innovative technologies for brands, publishers and ad platforms.
Ad Exchange with fast connection and access to the largest DSPs and SSPs. Programmatic buying of traffic from direct publishers on Web, In-App and Smart TV.
Close cos 0.891 - 04
RTBWise - Turn Every Impression into Measurable Revenue
Close cos 0.889 - 05
RTB House. The Next-generation Performance DSP
Cut through the online noise with truly personalized marketing campaigns powered by Deep Learning. Drive growth on web and app.
Close cos 0.888 - 06
AdMatic GmbH – AI-Driven Advertising | Human-Centric Results
Close cos 0.886 - 07
The Agentic Advertising Platform | Optable
Unlock ad revenue with agentic solutions. Optable is the privacy-preserving identity, activation, and collaboration platform for advertising.
Close cos 0.884 - 08
Adtelligent | Advertising Technology Company
Adtelligent Inc. is an advertising technology company providing solutions for publishers and advertisers: SSP / DSP / Ad Network / Header Bidding / Video player
Close cos 0.884 - 09
Advertising Technology Company
Advertising Technology Company
Close cos 0.883 - 10 Close cos 0.879
- 11
Admixer | Full-Stack Programmatic AdTech Solutions
Admixer is a global AdTech vendor that provides digital advertising products and services for Publishers, Brands and Advertising Agencies
Close cos 0.879 - 12
Publisher Ad Tech Platform — Control Your Programmatic Stack | Aditude
One platform. Complete control. Aditude unifies ad serving, intelligence, and demand for enterprise publishers ready to maximize revenue at scale.
Close cos 0.879 - 13
ConnectAd – The Independent European SSP
Close cos 0.878 - 14
The leading programmatic marketing platform | Hybrid DSP programmatic advertising
AI-based creative optimization solutions for a powerful marketing influence
Close cos 0.878 - 15
AI Advertising Platform | StackAdapt
StackAdapt is the AI advertising platform that helps marketers orchestrate audiences, creative, channels, and measurement from one platform with AI built into every stage of advertising.
Close cos 0.874 - 16
Kueez | The Growth Platform for Modern Publishers
Kueez helps the world's leading publishers build new revenue streams, grow audiences and maximize monetization.
Close cos 0.873 - 17
Advertising Automation Platform for Omnichannel Media | Basis
Plan, activate, optimize, and reconcile media across programmatic, search, and social with one unified advertising automation platform.
Close cos 0.872 - 18
Bidease
Market and monetize your mobile apps with best-in-class, AI-driven programmatic solutions with Bidease.
Close cos 0.872 - 19
Tradedoubler | Boosting partnerships since 1999
We empower a thriving partner marketing network where everyone wins. Brands, Publishers, Creators and Influencers alike. Established in Stockholm by Felix Hagnö and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Spotify, Tradedoubler swiftly ascended to become Europe's no. 1 Affiliate Marketing network, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Presently, we extend our Partner Marketing and Tech Solutions across +90 markets. While operating globally, our ethos remains deeply rooted in local authenticity.
Close cos 0.870 - 20
Taboola: Performance Advertising & Gen AI Answers for Publishers
Advertisers get measurable results beyond search and social with Realize. Publishers win back engagement lost to AI search with DeeperDive answers on-site.
Close cos 0.870
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to project-limelight.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Limelight uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Limelight is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://ms-cdn.multiscreensite.com/runtime-react/4312/res/js/runtime-react.js
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://static.cdn-website.com/libs/jquery/jquery-3.7.0.min.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- Reddit Pixel page source: redditstatic.com/ads/pixel
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: CtCsl9vybkHLCOGlpNN2TdlGHaM_f94MBM3AdPFIBac
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Limelight adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on project-limelight.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on project-limelight.com 9/20
- Google Fonts · not on project-limelight.com 9/20
- HubSpot 9/20
- Atlassian · not on project-limelight.com 8/20
- PHP · not on project-limelight.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on project-limelight.com 7/20
- WordPress · not on project-limelight.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on project-limelight.com 6/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- nginx 6/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Slack · not on project-limelight.com 5/20