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Questions about statistics
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Hello, I've been webcasting here a little over a year I suppose (I've lost track) anyway, I haven't paid much attention to the stream for the last few months, and when I logged in today and started exploring the new loudcaster dashboard, I saw details that made me think there may have been a glitch, I was wondering if it was real, or has anyone else had this issue too.
For years my station may do 3 listeners on a really really really really good day. Most days it seemed like I was my own best listener. Today after logging in after about three months in inactivity, I was surpised to see a TLH of over 1700, it gave me this little chart where apparently I peaked at 23 listeners?
Unheard of! And I quesiton the accuracy (or maybe Im just not reading it right), but my plan only allows for up to five listeners at any rate, so how did I manage 23?
If these stats are real, I may have to polish up the stream and put on some new material, apparently it has more interest that I thought!
BTW, glad to finally have a forum account again!
-Andy
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Now there are three listners (I'm not one of them). All from something called "tune in radio". What is that?
I'm totally having a "holy @#$%" moment here..! -
Hi, i think those stats are right. I had Christmas music playing on my channel, and at one time, on Dec. 12, there was a peak of 1772 listeners. The numbers were "over the top" of what I ever expected.. It was pretty amazing. I was extremely geeked, but, After Dec. 26, the numbers went down to about 20, and dropped down to 1 after Jan. 1. So, I think counting machine works good. (those were the days) Oh well.
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Interestingly I noticed that the listenership seemed to pick up right at about December 20th, and has been steady since then. This really blew my mind since the whole thing has been on autopilot for at least a good six months. I must say, it's given me a renewed interest. I have since explored the Loudcaster pages and updated my station graphics for the new station pages from Loudcaster, not that many of them seem to be coming in from the Lcaster page, but none the less, when company starts to come over, you gotta clean house a litte!
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TuneIn has become really popular on the AM/FM side of things (I know of a bunch of stations that promote it rather than make apps of their own) so it deffinatley helps to be listed there. as for the listenership, christmas music will inflate your stats around that time of year, I had a Live365 station once and switched to all christmas some time in November and steadily watched the daily TSL (time spent listening) go up, but return back to a couple hours a day after the holidays when i switched back to my regular programming.
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I've seen a steady increase of listeners for my station as well. I have noticed a few TuneIn listeners but most of my listeners are still comming from iTunes. However TuneIn seems to be gaining popularity especially amung smartphone users. Blackberries are pretty much depending on TuneIn as TuneWiki is a second program that works well for them (But requires your station to be listed in the Shoutcast Directory). Droids work well with XiiaLiveLite(Requires your station to be listed in the Shoutcast Directory), TuneIn and Live365 for Live365 listeners and broadcasters. iPhone and iPads work well with Shoutcast Radio to receive our stations on the Shoutcast directory (if you have your station listed on shoutcast). The moral is get your station listed in the Shoutcast directory if you plan on huge numbers.
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My gut was leaning towards that explination, it seemed more logical. Still not a bad figure, and definatly what I would consider a "good day"!
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I had an increase of listeners around the holidays too. I had noticed someone from Saudi Arabia and another from Spain listening with Tune In. After the holidays, my listeners dropped like a rock. I've been scratching my head on that, but it's good to know I wasn't the only one.
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Thats the thing though, I never programmed any Christmas music in my station. In last nights update was the first update since at least mid Summer of 2011. All of a sudden the listeners just came out of nowhere!
The TLH report shows 1903. This sets an all time record for any webcasting station I've ever created. 2012 is getting off to a good start station wise that is. Perhaps it won't be the end of the world after all.
Or perhaps everyone is trying to get a little vintage music in their life before the big gamma ray hits, or the poles shift! HAHA!
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