Alternatives and competitors
Sites like OpenWeb
The 20 closest audience engagement software alternatives to OpenWeb, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to OpenWeb? The closest matches are Optable, Media.net and Opinary. 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
- 4,032
- Vector
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- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About OpenWeb
OpenWeb spot.im
OpenWeb - The Community Engine of the Open Internet
OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
Summary by Claude
OpenWeb (formerly Spot.IM) provides publishers with on-site commenting, forums and community engagement tools with AI-powered moderation, and monetizes these conversations through advertising inventory for advertisers.
- Who it’s for
- Digital news publishers and advertisers
- Business model
- Advertising revenue share
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OpenWeb’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 OpenWeb
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OpenWeb, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The Agentic Advertising Platform | Optable
Unlock ad revenue with agentic solutions. Optable is the privacy-preserving identity, activation, and collaboration platform for advertising.
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Media.net | The Sell Side Platform for Greater Outcomes
We help brands and publishers leverage the best of programmatic, to achieve their goals across every screen.
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Opinary | We ask the right questions
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RevContent | Performance-Driven Native Advertising Platform for Publishers & Advertisers
RevContent helps publishers and advertisers drive results with high-performing native ads. Grow your revenue and reach the right audiences across premium content environments.
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Viafoura | The Community Operating System for Publishers and Media Brands
CommunityOS is the community operating system trusted by 1,000+ media brands worldwide. Build direct audience relationships, boost registrations and revenue, and own your first-party data, all on infrastructure built for media brands.
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American media company
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
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product discovery website
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Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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Search Engine Journal - The AI Search & SEO News That Matters
Search Engine Journal is the last independent voice in search, sharing the latest AI search, SEO, GEO & AEO news that impact marketing strategy and business growth.
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Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
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Homepage - Mediavine
Smarter Monetization Starts Here Mediavine powers digital businesses with technology and data engineered to outperform. Our platform delivers cleaner delivery, stronger revenue, and long-term performance for publishers building what’s next. Trusted by 20,000+ publishers, built on technology proven to perform One Platform Built to Outperform Mediavine gives digital publishers a competitive advantage with technology designed...
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Publisher monetization company
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Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
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Ezoic — Grow on the open web
Billions of people visit premium websites and web apps every day. Ezoic puts your brand in front of them with bidsystem.ai.
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OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to spot.im’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones OpenWeb uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What OpenWeb is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.openweb.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zen…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zen…
- Cookie consent
- Cookiebot page source: consent.cookiebot.com/
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630b613ab662b5-HAM
- Hosting
- WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms88268748
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zen…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-802.awsdns-36.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=oIBkQSaTd29gKJ8NqLxG3jbqkbEww6fC85XmwcT…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=RQDNePcsBhiwiaGaUPKwwHamCQ-z-4EYJYovK…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1BCcwnOzpqOzvRjKZnN6fO4nBgFP4Xskm9ZqiPeJ9_U
- Miro TXT miro-verification=f46338ff8533fde011356993f68f91f58cae2c09
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OpenWeb adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Google Analytics · not on spot.im 7/20
- HubSpot · not on spot.im 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- Mailchimp 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on spot.im 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- SendGrid 5/20
- Apple Business · not on spot.im 5/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on spot.im 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20