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Pocket Casts

Entertainment — Powerful podcast manager for iOS & Android
Entertainmentest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 19.1 · 2/4
19.1
Pulse Index
2/4 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

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

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

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2823 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
pocketcasts.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#1,241,179
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Pocket Casts's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://pocketcasts.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 19.1 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 4 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Beatbucketproductivitytag-overlap100%40.50.0● live
Prime Music UKentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+9.6— unverified
Spinrillaentertainmentsimilar100%19.10.0→ redirected
YapTapentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
edmradioentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Houdinientertainmentsimilar100%32.8+24.8● live
Meepentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
MUJI to Sleephealthtag-overlap100%15.70.0— 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 modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives4
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 00:39Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com1721redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:34Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2973redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:07Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2530redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 07:04Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2140redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:20Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2649redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:35Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com1881redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 15:17Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com1800redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:12Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com3481redirected_offsite
2026-07-12 09:11Z10019timeout
2026-07-04 13:19Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2707redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:28Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2182redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:33Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com1170redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:33Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2083redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 06:55Z200shiftyjelly.com → pocketcasts.com2190redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Pocket Casts · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/pocket-casts · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.