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ArchDaily's nearest audiences span design blogs, general-interest magazines, and broad news publishers — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: the top 10 scores run from Designboom at 0.94 down to Architectural Record at 0.90, a range of only four points. Dezeen sits at 0.93 and Design Milk at 0.92 — both design-adjacent channels, as expected. But the cluster quickly broadens beyond design media. Telegraph Breaking News (0.91) and Guardian News (0.91) are general news publishers, and Creative Review (0.91) and Magnum Photos (0.91) are magazines with no architectural focus. Guardian Music (0.91) rounds out the top 10 alongside Architectural Record — the only other architecture-specific title in the set.
Tallying the top 10 by subcategory: four are magazines, two are news publishers, two are blogs, one is a website (Dezeen), and one is a magazine (Architectural Record). Only Dezeen shares ArchDaily's own subcategory of Websites. The dominant subcategory is Magazines, followed by News Publishers — meaning ArchDaily's audience shape aligns more closely with editorial media readers broadly than with architecture or design websites specifically. The presence of general news publishers at scores above 0.91 is the clearest signal: this audience reads widely across culture and current affairs, not just within a design niche.
The flat distribution across subcategories suggests an audience defined less by a single content category than by a consistent editorial sensibility that cuts across design, culture, and news.
