One of the beauties of hosting yourself is that you can get all your own stats and analyze them however you want (I have bled for both analog and awstats now...) . I know how many people are viewing each of the versions of each video I post: flv - they have to be looking at the page on the site; m4v is most likely iTunes, but could be some other aggregator; SWF is some other aggregator or feedreader, but definitely not iTunes.
Now I need to take it to the next level and figure out, on average, how many people are actually watching my videos all the way through.
The numbers do matter if you hope (as I do) to eventually attract enough traffic to make the damn thing pay. That's not why I do it, but... we're all looking for validation and, in our capitalist world, the ultimate validation is money in the bank. Artistic freedom is all very well, but it won't put my kid through college.
On 2/23/06, Josh Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been thinking a little bit about subscription numbers, feedburner stats and all that crap that we use to uselessly evaluate our "place in the vlogosphere" My findings seem to point towards specific audience/topic as being the key motivator for subscribers.
Let's take GETV for example.
They started in November of 2005. Their vlog consists of interviews with the "big name" people of the blogosphere that they meet at conferences or in San Francisco. Somehow their subscription numbers have shot up very quick. This is most likely because the people who are most interested in that information are also the people who are using RSS aggregators the most. It is somewhat simple reflexive system, if you talk about bloggers, then bloggers will talk about you and subscribe to your blog.
Rocketboom seems to dwell in this realm, but at times drifts out into the greater world of the internet, I am sure that their forays into the quirky snags them a different audience that views content differently (not using RSS)
I believe that if someone made a videoblog about hiking, their content would most likely not be viewed via RSS but my singular page views
RSS is still unknown to the rest of the world, most people I know don't even know what an aggreagator is. Many of my friends who have blogs on Xanga or Blogger don't even know what a feed is or that they even have one...
I guess this just goes to show that subscribers is not popularity of content, but popularity of content within a select group of people who use RSS, therefore the topics that get the most subscribers are the ones that are geared more towards the blog/tech/gadget side of the spectrum...
Screw subscription numbers, just make content!!!
thank you...
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Deirdré Straughan
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