A lot of podcasters are obsessed with stats, including my self. Just knowing you have listeners is a fulfilling experience that one never gets ove, that is for the first 6 months. I launched a network of shows at Qetuo.me and wanted to know how well my first shows where doing.
Over time, as I have done before, I’ll stop looking at those stats, knowing that people are listening to what I have to say or do.
It isnt that bad to take a peek once an a blue moon to see if there was one show that people listened to more than another, or to see something is wrong with a feed or something you did or didnt do in your show or blog.
In the old days we used to have a plugin track the stats, but over time the developer stopped updating it.
Some would use Feedburner, but to tell you the truth, it never tracked the downloads in a correct way.
Now a days we have reliable services that offer great cloud stats software, so you can track your shows and listeners.
Podtrac – Podtrac is one that I’m just getting into, so I cant say much as of yet, but looking it over the stats, aha well they are just plain jane. If your looking for something like this Podtrac is for you. I also didnt like the submitting proses they wanted a lot of info, just for stats.
Blubrry and TechPodcasts (Only for Technology Podcasters) – I have to say Raw Voice the parent company that owns both sites are the best when it comes to stats. They offer a out of this world free service allows you to view what device, program, country, etc for each podcast. and the $5 premium stats are even better.
libsyn – For now libsyn is third in stats reason being is you have to sign up for there hosting plans in order to take advantage of there stats. but if it was just stats it would be second over blubrry.
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great post as usual!
I love podtrac. They also have a survey feature where you can get demographics fom your audience. So you get stats (inculding where people are coming from, and how they listen) and if they choose to fill out a survey you get how old, how rich, etc they are.
FYI, we are working on simplifying the Podtrac registration process (I am literally working on it right now). We would love to hear your feedback on how we can improve our reports, or any other services you’d like to see from us. Feel free to contact me directly.