Chapter 5. Podcast Statistics

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5.1. Podcast Statistics

5.1. Podcast Statistics

Want to see how your podcasts are performing? Podbean's powerful analysis tools gives you an in-depth dimensional view of your visitors, subscribers, hits and geographical distribution.

Navigate to top menu "Statistics", each submenu represent a specific type of podcast stats. Including episode hits, subscribers, site visitors and geographic distribution.

Episode Hits - Hits for each episode. different type of reach will be categorized three areas: feed, download and streaming. Feed reflects the number of times your content is fetched via a subscribed Feed; Download is the number of times that your content files are downloaded directly through the web; While streaming is the number of times that your content files are played online.

Subscribers - Approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It's based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Request from robots will not be counted.

Site Visitors - Provide the number of visitors to your podcast site. Any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Geo Stats - The measure of where the audience comes from.

Each stats consists of graphic view, summary, and raw data, which are generated based on the criteria at the top of the page.

Figure 5.1.