Podcast stats

Ah, the joys of having one’s own hosted site and multiple database products. On that last point. SQL-Server’s operating overhead has really come down in the current release. I’m running an instance of MySQL and SQL-Server and there’s little to choose between the two at the moment.

Anyway.

This morning I ran a BI report for the first full month of audited file and server activity for the podcast.

Last month the podcast averaged 32,213 weekly downloads – or 32,213 downloads per episode if you prefer.

Unfortunately, because of the way iTunes manages their RSS syndication and their pecular UID methodology, I can’t determine how many iTunes ‘listens’ occur, so the statistic above excludes iTunes activity.

The top countries by IP locator (so a slight pinch of salt please when reading these numbers) shows the national breakdown of non-iTunes listens as:

That’s over 48% of listeners in the US alone and that, my friends, is very interesting. The high proportion of Spanish/Latin American countries is also very gratifying.

So a quick message to everyone who picks up a weekly episode of This Reality Podcast.

I think you’re bonkers, but truly wonderful.

Thank you for your support.

I’ll think of you whenever I wear it.

🙂

B.