What came off the site, and how it comes back
Web Summit's licence does not let us republish data from its site. On 11 November 2026 we took off everything that rested only on it: company facts, people, sessions and the places and organisations they named. Each comes back when we find another public source for it, and is then shown with that source and the date it came back.
By kind
The figures are read from the inventory at each release, never typed.
| Kind | Held | Came off | Kept | Came back |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies | 120 | 5 | 115 | 0 |
| Company facts | 343 | 239 | 104 | 0 |
| Company links | 307 | 282 | 25 | 0 |
| People | 285 | 285 | 0 | 0 |
| Sessions and events | 248 | 214 | 34 | 0 |
| Organisations | 269 | 182 | 87 | 0 |
| Places | 85 | 43 | 42 | 0 |
None has come back yet.
The route, for one fact
- Came off, 11 November: it rested only on Web Summit's site.
- A shadow source: another public page says the same, found without a login, a paywall or a bot check.
- Came back: shown again with that source and the date.
The method
We look for a shadow source by the method in Sources and their shadows. No login, no paywall and no bot challenge is read around.
The showcase
What a licence-free site can be: Lisbon Tech Fringe, built from open sources.