Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Variety

The 20 closest entertainment trade publication alternatives to Variety, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 20 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Variety? The closest matches are The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and ScreenRant. 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 Variety

Variety variety.com

Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

Wikidata: American weekly entertainment trade magazine

Top 10K · #2,287 English 20 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Entertainment industry trade publication covering film, television, music and media business news, reviews, box office results, awards and festivals, with regional editions and industry events.

Who it’s for
Entertainment industry professionals and fans
Business model
Advertising, subscriptions and events

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Variety’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

BillboardGizmodoeonline.comCBRMovieWebColliderAdweekScreenRantDeadlineThe Hollywood Reporter

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Variety

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    The Hollywood Reporter hollywoodreporter.com Top 10K English

    The Hollywood Reporter – Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more from The Hollywood Reporter.

    Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more from The Hollywood Reporter.

  2. 02
    Deadline deadline.com Top 10K English

    Deadline – Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News

    Deadline.com is always the first to break up-to-the-minute entertainment, Hollywood and media news, with an unfiltered, no-holds-barred analysis of events.

  3. 03
    ScreenRant screenrant.com Top 10K English

    ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News

    ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!

  4. 04
    Adweek adweek.com Top 10K English

    ADWEEK

    Breaking News in Advertising, Media and Technology

  5. 05
    Collider collider.com Top 10K English

    New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider

    Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.

  6. 06
    MovieWeb movieweb.com Top 10K English

    MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.

    The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.

  7. 07
    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!

  8. 08
    Entertainment Weekly ew.com Top 10K English

    Simple Page

    American entertainment magazine published by People Inc.

  9. 09
    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.

  10. 10
    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.

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    eonline.com Top 10K

    E! News: Celebrity News, Photos and Video

    E! Online delivers breaking entertainment news, celebrity updates, red carpet and award show coverage, fashion trends, and the latest in TV and movies.

  14. 14
    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English

    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.

  15. 15
    Billboard billboard.com Top 10K English

    Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video

    Music Charts, News, Photos & Video

  16. 16
    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.

  17. 17

    DDoS-Guard

  18. 18
    CoinDesk coindesk.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group

  19. 19
    Bleacher Report bleacherreport.com Top 10K English

    Bleacher Report | Sports. Highlights. News. Now.

    Fan easier, fan faster and fan better with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights and scores for all your favorite sports.

  20. 20
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

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

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://variety.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5f299ac5ccddedab8418f37aad62a1ff499e5979c…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=nprFKP7f9bTtDxCbcLk3c0Ag6DYYRzhq/pIp/XJ…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pIaVGAxDGm9Q_ep5BU7dC3FF_zbbdPVZlKMEYZp3UeE
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=97nqs8w0mjgb6y2nm64wq1ul057n4u
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…

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