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Sites like The Daily Beast

The 20 closest online news media alternatives to The Daily Beast, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to The Daily Beast? The closest matches are International Business Times, The Independent and Slate. 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 The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com

Wikidata: American news publication

Top 10K · #3,219 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Summary by Claude

American online news publication covering politics, media, pop culture, and celebrity news, with scoops, commentary, and investigative reporting.

Who it’s for
General US news readers
Business model
Advertising and subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Daily Beast’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

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03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to The Daily Beast

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Daily Beast, thumbs down if it isn’t.

We can’t read thedailybeast.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    International Business Times ibtimes.com Top 10K English

    International Business Times - Business News, Financial news

    International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.

  2. 02
    The Independent independent.co.uk Top 1K English

    News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news

    The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

  3. 03
    Slate slate.com Top 10K English

    Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts

    Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

  4. 04
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  5. 05
    Newsweek newsweek.com Top 10K English

    Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.

    Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!

  6. 06
    Vox vox.com Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    TIME time.com Top 1K English

    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.

  8. 08
    USA Today usatoday.com Top 1K English

    Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com

    USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.

  9. 09
    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English

    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.

  10. 10
    Page Six pagesix.com Top 10K English

    Page Six: Latest Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Gossip

    Your source for the latest celebrity news, entertainment headlines and celeb gossip, with exclusive stories, photos, video, and more.

  11. 11
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    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.

  12. 12
    CBR cbr.com Top 10K English

    CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news

    Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!

  13. 13
    The New York Times nytimes.com Top 1K English

    nytimes.com

    American daily newspaper (founded 1851)

  14. 14
    Business Insider businessinsider.com Top 1K English

    Business Insider - Latest News in Tech, Markets, Economy & Innovation

    Business Insider tells the global tech, finance, stock market, media, economy, lifestyle, real estate, AI and innovative stories you want to know.

  15. 15
    The Verge theverge.com Top 1K English

    The Verge

    The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

  16. 16
    Breitbart News breitbart.com Top 10K English

    Breitbart News Network

    Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.

  17. 17
    NBC News nbcnews.com Top 1K English

    NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News

    Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.

  18. 18
    The Washington Post washingtonpost.com Top 1K

    daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C.

  19. 19
    Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com Top 10K English

    Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

    The Global Magazine of News and Ideas

  20. 20
    Politico politico.com Top 10K English

    American journalism company and news website

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to thedailybeast.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones The Daily Beast uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What The Daily Beast is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email include:…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3…
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=BahbT-Pu-HaLP9bBimZ0MGe-4CPc4Z_MXqKNU…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=iJoYgM8xMMAH2NFEZDzBz5JXqjetkgqtnnX_OFg65qY
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=hazesk9wpurz95aok79qc54ge5t0jv
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-gb1pdDog3RqYeatlzv5ZJaVq
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_0Ypk2q6MCWyfjzpxDtRdvO

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