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99% Invisible

Entertainment — 99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architectur [Tech]
Entertainmentest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 17 probesavg response 1968 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

99% Invisible's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Internet History Podcast #133: Gary Flake on Overture, Yahoo and the History of Searchentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics: How to Make a Bad Decisionentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buckentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
IDEO Futures Podcast Episode 42: The wisdom of Peter Drucker with Zach Firstentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
99% Invisible - Miss Manhattanentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Important, Not Important: The Podcastentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Unchained Podcastentertainmentsimilar100%8.0+8.0— unverified
a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economyentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:20Z10009timeout
2026-08-19 14:15Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1453alive
2026-08-11 00:50Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare640alive
2026-08-08 06:45Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare255alive
2026-08-05 19:03Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1145alive
2026-07-30 18:18Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare203alive
2026-07-23 09:41Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1751alive
2026-07-17 09:45Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare2256alive
2026-07-11 09:04Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1591alive
2026-07-04 13:01Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare4208alive
2026-06-23 14:10Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1458alive
2026-06-21 17:15Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare144alive
2026-06-21 17:15Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare557alive
2026-06-20 05:04Z20099percentinvisible.orgcloudflare1888alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · 99% Invisible · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/99-invisable · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.