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Entertainment — Daily shot of news on your phone by The Economist [News, Tech]
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 2014
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). 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 82% of 17 probesavg response 2607 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
apps.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

Economist Espresso'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: 5 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
Spotify Wrapped 2023entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
NYT Opinionentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Piggyfinancetag-overlap100%8.0-32.0— unverified
OK Cupidentertainmentsimilar100%49.4+32.0— unverified
The Daily Wellnesshealthtag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
ByCyclinghealthtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Your Man Reminder Apphealthtag-overlap100%42.5+9.6● live
Text Dobbyecommercetag-overlap100%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 modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
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
2026-08-28 00:39Z429itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51475unknown
2026-08-19 14:34Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52786alive
2026-08-11 01:07Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52826alive
2026-08-08 07:04Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51944alive
2026-08-05 19:20Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52675alive
2026-07-30 18:35Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52610alive
2026-07-26 15:17Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51879alive
2026-07-18 09:12Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/53291alive
2026-07-12 09:11Z10019timeout
2026-07-04 13:19Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52631alive
2026-06-23 14:28Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5487alive
2026-06-21 17:33Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/52388alive
2026-06-21 17:33Z200itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/51359alive
2026-06-20 06:55Z429itunes.apple.com → apps.apple.comdaiquiri/5133unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Economist Espresso · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/economist-espresso · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.