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Dezeen's top 10 neighbors span magazines, blogs, websites, and news publishers — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest. The spread across scores runs from Design Milk at 0.97 down to Momofuku at 0.95, a range of just 0.02 across ten positions. That compression is the defining structural fact here.
The shape is flat. The top five — Design Milk (0.97), Creative Review (0.97), Designboom (0.97), DesignObserver (0.97), and Wallpaper Magazine (0.96) — are all design-adjacent editorial properties: three magazines and two blogs. That cluster is the expected core. What's notable is what sits alongside it. Eater (0.96) is a food website; Skillshare (0.96) is an education brand; Lucky Peach (0.96) is a food magazine; Astrology Zone (0.95) is a general-interest website; and Momofuku (0.95) is a restaurant brand. By subcategory, the top 10 breaks down as three magazines, two blogs, three websites, one education brand, and one restaurant — meaning roughly half the set sits outside design publishing entirely.
Dezeen's own subcategory is Websites, and only three other websites appear in the top 10 (Eater, Astrology Zone, and Lucky Peach is a magazine — correcting: Eater and Astrology Zone). The audience shape here belongs less to a single editorial niche than to a broader creative-professional and culturally curious reader profile that design, food, and craft education all share.
