Descript

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Descript declares 48 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and OpenAI. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 21, 2026. 1 tracked vendor, Kaltura, names Descript as a subprocessor.

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48 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
11Labs / Eleven Labs US
Airbyte Cloud US
Amplitude US
Andromeda New York (LGA1)
Andromeda.ai US
Anthropic API (Claude, Claude Code) AIUS
Apollo Data Enrichment US
Apple ID US
AWS US
Baseten AIUS
BigQuery US
Braintrust US
Braze US
Cargo US
Chartmogul US
Clearbit US
Common Room US
Commonroom US
dbt Cloud US
Default US
Enterpret US
Fivetran US
Forethought US
Gong US
Google Analytics US
Google Cloud US
Google Tag Manager US
HoneyComb US
Huggingface US
LaunchDarkly US
Notion US
OpenAI API AIUS
OpenRouter AIUS
Outreach US
Pipedrive US
Retool US
Salesforce US
Segment US
Sentry US
SparkPost US
Sprig US
Stripe US
Stytch US
Vercel US
Vitally US
Webflow US
Zapier US
Zendesk US

Web TechnologiesCSV · Atom

Descript's homepage made 174 requests to 26 domains, 15 services controlled by another company, and 1 domain not identified.

Advertising (5): Google Cloud, StackAdapt, OpenAI, Reddit, Inc., X Corp.Analytics (3): LinkedIn, Meta, RB2BOther (6): Affiliate programs: PartnerStack; usually detected as CMS: Sanity; Customer data platform: Segment; Form builders: Default; Issue trackers: Sentry; Video players: WistiaUnclassified (1): no technology detected from them: Stytch

15 third parties by category: Advertising 5Analytics 3Other 6Unclassified 1

Third parties 15 · 101 requests
Sanity sanity.io 13% of the page's requests 23
Google Cloudsubprocessor DoubleClick Floodlight Google Analytics Google Sign-in Google Tag Manager 11% of the page's requests 19
Segmentsubprocessor Segment 1.84.3 8% of the page's requests 14
Wistia Wistia 7% of the page's requests 13
LinkedIn Linkedin Insight Tag 2% of the page's requests 4
PartnerStack PartnerStack 2% of the page's requests 4
StackAdapt StackAdapt 2% of the page's requests 4
Stytch stytch.com 2% of the page's requests 4
Meta Facebook Pixel 2.9.419 2% of the page's requests 3
OpenAIsubprocessor ChatGPT Ads Measurement Pixel 2% of the page's requests 3
Reddit, Inc. Reddit Ads 2% of the page's requests 3
X Corp. Twitter Ads 2% of the page's requests 3
Defaultsubprocessor Default (default.com) 1% of the page's requests 2
RB2B RB2B <1% of the page's requests 1
Sentrysubprocessor Sentry 9.6.1 <1% of the page's requests 1
Unknown 1 · 1 request

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First party 1 · 72 requests
Descript Google Cloud Google Cloud CDN HSTS HTTP/3 Linkedin Ads Next.js 16.3.3 Next.js App Router Nginx 1.30.1 Open Graph Priority Hints React Sanity Sanity.io Turbopack Webpack core-js 3.32.2 41% of the page's requests 72

6 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Descript's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (1)CSV · Atom

1 company
  • Kaltura kaltura.com Audio/video editing platform, automatic transcription, clip creation

Service statusCSV · Atom

Aug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: 1 incident (1 minor)Aug 19: no incident reportedAug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: 1 incident (1 major)Aug 25: no incident reportedAug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: no incident reportedSep 1: no incident reportedSep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: 3 incidents (1 critical, 1 major, 1 minor)Sep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: no incident reportedSep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: 2 incidents (2 minor)Sep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: 1 incident (1 critical)Sep 15: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 16: no incident reportedSep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: no incident reportedSep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: no incident reportedSep 29: 1 incident (1 major)Sep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: no incident reportedOct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: no incident reportedOct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: 1 incident (1 major)Oct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: 1 incident (1 minor)Oct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: 1 incident (1 critical)Nov 3: no incident reportedNov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: no incident reportedNov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reportedNov 12: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 14 incidents in 90 days
  • 7 major or critical
  • 3 h typical time to resolve
  • 5 h 36 min longest major
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Avatar Outagecritical5 h 36 min
Increased latency for agent API jobsminor33 h 16 min
Generate Layout is downmajor—
Transcription jobs failingmajor53 min
Issues with Project Syncminor3 h
Rooms Recording Outagecritical35 min
Underlordminor16 h 7 min
Backend Workflow Outageminor2 h 35 min

Incidents per month

0 4 8 Jun 2026: 6 incidents (2 critical, 1 major, 3 minor) · partial: our history begins Jun 8 · typical time to resolve 53 min Jul 2026: 8 incidents (3 critical, 2 major, 3 minor) · typical time to resolve 1 h 4 min Aug 2026: 4 incidents (1 critical, 1 major, 2 minor) · typical time to resolve 44 min Sep 2026: 8 incidents (2 critical, 2 major, 4 minor) · typical time to resolve 3 h Oct 2026: 2 incidents (1 major, 1 minor) · typical time to resolve 33 h 16 min Nov 2026: 1 incident (1 critical) · typical time to resolve 5 h 36 min Jun 2026Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated before or partly before our history

As Descript's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Incidents reported by Descript's subprocessorsCSV · Atom

326 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 17 of the vendors Descript lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Descript was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
Twilio· SegmentSMS Delivery Delays from Twilio to MTS Kazakhstan minorongoing
Twilio· SegmentSMS Delivery Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to Tcell Tajikistan minorongoing
OpenAIUnable to start new Workspace Agent runs criticalongoing
Twilio· SegmentMMS Delivery Delays from a Subset of Twilio Long Codes to Multiple Networks in United States minorongoing
Twilio· SegmentSMS Delivery Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to K-Cell Kazakhstan minorongoing
OpenAIElevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features minor8 min
SentryUS issues feed throwing intermittent errors minor51 min
BasetenModel APIs are down for all models critical21 min
Twilio· SegmentVoice Call Failures in JP1 minor3 h 51 min
SegmentOn Call Engineers are Investigating no impact statedongoing
dbt LabsCloud IDE sessions failed to load no impact stated8 min
Twilio· SegmentSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Turkcell Turkey minor3 h 54 min
SentryAccount emails not being delivered major42 min
Twilio· SegmentRetroactive Incident Impacting Twilio Usage APIs no impact stated1 min
AnthropicElevated errors on Fable 52 and Mythos 52 no impact stated1 min
Twilio· SegmentIssue resolved minor1 h 43 min
SentryEU region replay ingestion latency minor48 min
VercelElevated Sandbox and Blob request latency and errors minor1 min
NotionSome Notion Agent sessions may hang or stop updating major2 h 19 min
Twilio· SegmentSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio Phone Numbers to Movistar Venezuela minor3 h 26 min
WebflowReports of form notification emails not being delivered to customers in the US major1 h
dbt LabsDegraded run performance due to dbt State service disruption no impact stated—
Twilio· SegmentGateway API (Lookup API) Failure Increase on Verizon in United States minor10 h 23 min
OpenAIIncorrect cost data in Costs API exports no impact stated2 h 20 min
OpenAIElevated Errors On API minor42 min

And 301 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV · Atom

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

None since tracking began.

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