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Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck

Entertainment — A team of economists running the numbers on the UN's goals
Entertainmentest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 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
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. 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 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 608 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
google.com
edge
direct origin
server
gws
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 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: 4 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
BBC Radio Profile: Anonymousentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Twenty Minute VC - Tim Draper @ DFJeducationtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics Radio - Why Do People Keep Having Children?entertainmentsimilar100%8.0-32.0● live
Innovation Rising Episode 5: Exponential Medicine Conference Recapeducationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Radio Open Source with Chris Lydonentertainmentsimilar100%35.2+22.4● live
Planet Money - When patents attackentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
A16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Futureentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Notion Capital Podcast - 10: Fergus Gloster, Founder at Thomond Technologyentertainmentsimilar100%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 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
2026-08-26 12:11Z200google.comgws982alive
2026-08-18 13:20Z200google.comgws399alive
2026-08-11 00:16Z200google.comgws948alive
2026-08-08 06:07Z200google.comgws358alive
2026-08-05 18:28Z200google.comgws825alive
2026-07-30 17:42Z200google.comgws226alive
2026-07-18 15:36Z200google.comgws1155alive
2026-07-16 09:48Z200google.comgws409alive
2026-07-10 10:36Z200google.comgws525alive
2026-07-04 09:26Z200google.comgws203alive
2026-06-23 13:44Z200google.comgws1018alive
2026-06-21 22:02Z200google.comgws174alive
2026-06-20 20:09Z200google.comgws197alive
2026-06-19 16:49Z200google.comgws1097alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/freakonomics-radio-fixing-the-world-bang-for-the-buck · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.