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Beats 1 Radio

Entertainment — 24/7 Global Radio from Apple Music [iOS, iPad, Mac]
Entertainmentsubscriptionest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 75% of 16 probesavg response 4903 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
music.apple.com
edge
direct origin
server
daiquiri/5
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Beats 1 Radio's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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: 6 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Full Audiobooks with Instareadentertainmentsimilar86%48.70.0● live
MoveWithhealthtag-overlap86%40.00.0● live
Deezer (US pre-launch)entertainmentsimilar86%49.80.0● live
Audible.comentertainmentsimilar86%40.0+32.0● live
Audmentertainmentsimilar86%17.10.0→ redirected
Spotify Familyentertainmentsimilar83%40.00.0● live
EarlySalaryfinancetag-overlap83%0.00.0■ inactive
PaidEasy VIPfinancetag-overlap83%8.00.0— unverified

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 modelsubscription
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
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
2026-08-27 18:34Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/55071alive
2026-08-19 13:49Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/52561alive
2026-08-11 00:25Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/51320alive
2026-08-08 06:16Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/53441alive
2026-08-05 18:37Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/53520alive
2026-07-30 17:51Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/52994alive
2026-07-22 09:42Z10010timeout
2026-07-17 09:24Z10004timeout
2026-07-10 10:47Z10009timeout
2026-07-04 09:37Z10007timeout
2026-06-23 13:54Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/52078alive
2026-06-21 10:46Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/52471alive
2026-06-20 00:38Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/51683alive
2026-06-18 22:54Z200itunes.apple.com → music.apple.comdaiquiri/53474alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Beats 1 Radio · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/beats-1-radio · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.