On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote:
As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about
listenership numbers as well.
Caveats:
1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast,
but without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're
likely to have.
2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise.
While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be
nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to
listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent
schedule that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things
would be either consistent or growing.
Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude
larger than that number does the average episode reach?
"Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into
the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>. You know the big double
decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads,
that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>." See
https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information.
We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are
listeners.
However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show
on the topic. ;-)
The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page
<https://archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio?sort=-date>. The dates
can be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave
sent me )
SELECT
MIN(e.date) AS joindate
FROM eps e
JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid
GROUP BY h.hostid
ORDER BY joindate DESC;
The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql
--
Regards,
Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
https://kenfallon.com
https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
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