ShadowCount is live — every leak, every gap, published.
The open-web crawler, the fingerprint match, and the five-tab admin dashboard that scores stations on what they reported versus what actually aired.
3 min readBy The GlueArrow Editors, Newsroom
ShadowCount is the integrity arm of GlueArrow. The first release ships two things simultaneously: an open-web crawler that tracks how catalogue leaks across pirate mirrors, DJ-mix pools, and unlicensed streams, and a station compliance scoring system that compares reported plays against actually-detected plays. Both surfaces are public.
What is in the dashboard
- Leakage — where catalogue is being used without a licence, ranked by severity.
- Stations — reporting gap versus detection, scored per station with a trendline and a flag threshold.
- Profiles — a per-artist audit visible on the public WikiGlue profile.
- Compliance — the rollup view; stations that report cleanly move up, stations that under-report move down.
- Activity Log — the unified feed of every detection event across the network.
Why this is public
A compliance score that a station only sees internally does not discipline the station. A compliance score that the artist, the advertiser, and the regulator all see on the same page is a different instrument. ShadowCount is the second kind.