Alternatives and competitors
Sites like TED
The 20 closest educational video talks alternatives to TED, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to TED? The closest matches are telegram.org, Habr and Khan Academy. 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.
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01 · Entity
About TED
TED ted.com
TED: Ideas change everything
TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. Ideas free to stream and download.
Wikidata: global set of conferences
Summary by Claude
TED publishes free video talks by expert speakers on science, technology, business, education, culture and global issues, with subtitles in over 100 languages. It also runs the TED conferences, TEDx events, TED-Ed educational content and newsletters.
- Who it’s for
- General public, lifelong learners, educators
- Business model
- Advertising, sponsorships, conference tickets and donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TED’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 TED
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TED, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
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Prezi: the presentation platform built for what happens after you present
Prezi is an interactive presentation platform for educators, trainers, and teams. Bring the slides you have or describe what you're covering, run live polls and quizzes everyone joins from their phone, then share one link that keeps working after the session.
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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American media company
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Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place
Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Analytics
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal
Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
American technology news and analysis website
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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish
IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
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Telegraph
Telegra.ph is a minimalist publishing tool that allows you to create richly formatted posts and push them to the Web in just a click. Telegraph posts also get beautiful Instant View pages on Telegram.
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Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
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Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform
The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ted.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones TED uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What TED is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: js-agent.newrelic.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kiad7000199-IAD, cache-ber1080021-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.27.5
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-191.awsdns-23.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4timsOUsdaVIPDVxoNaau9lRel9P83lqXmmmtsI…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=o-gjQy5XSCZFLMlzw9BblQ
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UIn4zpG4F9qybIzoM2BeT-O2H3RG6M4vgoC_n8CPzW0
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TED adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Google Analytics · not on ted.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on ted.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Apple Business · not on ted.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ted.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ted.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on ted.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on ted.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ted.com 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Google Ad Manager 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ted.com 5/20
- PHP · not on ted.com 5/20