Top Shows
I was looking at my stats at Libsyn (the media host I use to keep the audio files) and saw a sharp peak at one podcast.
Guess which podcast, in the last year has the most hits?
Now keep in mind, that the podcasts never are removed, so the older ones have the advantage.
Here’s the answer:
Podcast 11 – Babik (1392)
So it looks like people really appreciate good music!
2nd place: Podcast 13 – Greenwich Meantime (996)
I’m not surprised there. More great music and the GMT fans are really active on the internet!
3rd: Podcast 10 – Dee Adams (845)
Wow! I’m so glad Dee’s fans are finding us.
4th: Podcast 12 – Breakerbox (748)
A great upcoming band. I’m glad that people are finding this podcast too.
Nothing else has made it over 600. Penny Whiskey and Jackdaw’s podcasts are in the mid-500′s. As I said, it’s weighted in favor of the older podcasts, so I hope some of the newer shows make it up into the top 5 eventually!
Overall, the podcast has had 15,097 hits. 3,330 were from podcatchers. (People using a dedicated RSS feed reader.) Web downloads were 11,767. So most people were listening directly from the web page. (Or “a” web page. It probably includes the player on my MySpace page.)
The biggest podcatcher by far, has been iTunes. No surprise there.
I don’t place a lot of emphasis on stats, but they do show trends or point me in the direction of what works, I suppose. Libsyn isn’t the only stats I have either, but I feel they are accurate, as far as they go.
Stats don’t tell you if someone listened through until the end. They don’t tell you if someone had to attempt to listen or download a show ten times before they gave up. They also don’t tell you if the file got cached somewhere and one hit goes to many people. (AOL, Yahoo Podcasts etc.)
But, in general they do show trends, even if the actual numbers may be meaningless.
thinksobrain said,
December 11, 2006 at 7:52 pm
ours would’ve been number one if the sound didn’t get all screwed up, thus rendering us without one!
DocWu rocks!
Doc Wu said,
December 12, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Someone pointed out to me that the number in parentheses after the Podpress links is a counter. I guess I knew that, but hadn’t thought of it as being very meaningful to me.
For starters, it (I believe) only records listens initiated at this page. Many listeners are picking up the podcast through a RSS feed and may not even look at the web page. For instance, if you subscribe through iTunes.
Maybe there is some magic that routes the click through here before it heads on it’s way to Libsyn, but I’m not sure. And I really don’t care that much to research it. The numbers are all relative.
I did notice that the more recent podcasts have significant numbers in that counter, while earlier ones mostly have more modest numbers. Yet, some of them, particularily around the peak I talked about in the above post, have good counts.
I beleive the counter was an addition to Podpress in the last update I got. Posts before that update have lower counts because their counters didn’t start until some time after they were posted. Yet, the ones that consistantly draw listens, even though they are older podcasts, have higher counts.
That’s gratifying in itself. It shows that people are going back and listening to past shows, especially if they are a good show and a quality act. It proves there is a value in keeping the shows for archival purposes.
So keep listening, I’ll keep bringing podcasts and they will stay here as long as I can keep them.