The top 10 neighbors for Backstage span industry tools, film studios, entertainment media, and a film festival — with no single standout pulling far ahead of the rest.

The shape is flat: scores run from 0.98 (Casting Networks) down to 0.94 (A24), a range of only about four points across ten neighbors. Casting Networks (0.98) and Stage 32 (0.97) sit at the top — both are industry-facing platforms aimed at working performers and filmmakers, making them the closest subcategory match to Backstage's own positioning as a blog serving that world. The Black List (0.97) and IFC Films (0.97) follow immediately, and Sundance Film Festival (0.95) rounds out the top five.

Tallying the subcategories across all 10 neighbors: three are Film Studios (IFC Films, A24, and implicitly The Black List classified as TV Shows), two are Websites (Stage 32, IndieWire), one is B2B (Casting Networks), one is Events and Awards (Sundance Film Festival), one is a Comedian (Desus Nice, 0.95), one is a Magazine (i-D, 0.95), and one is a Website (Deadline Hollywood, 0.94). The dominant thread is independent film and entertainment industry infrastructure — film studios, trade media, and filmmaker platforms — with Desus Nice and i-D as the cross-kind outliers that signal a broader creative-class audience rather than a purely industry-professional one.

The flat shape, with no neighbor breaking away from the pack, suggests Backstage's audience is defined by a consistent creative-industry profile that maps evenly across film, media, and performance sectors rather than concentrating around any single adjacent community.