The Numbers

The Numbers, a film industry data website founded in 1997, was forced offline for months after a surge of automated bot traffic, primarily from LLM-related crawlers and prediction markets like Polymar…

The Numbers, a film industry data site tracking 78,396 movies and 236,176 people, vanished on March 5, 2026, after being overwhelmed by AI-driven bot traffic, founder Bruce Nash said. The site was dow…