Note that if you had two listens, and one listener only played one minute of your episode, and the other listened for the entire episode, your average listen time would show that about half of the duration of your episode is the ‘average’.Ĭompletion ratios help you to get a high level breakdown of your drop-offs in your episode. This metric is the average amount of time that your listeners played your episode. For example, if you see 85% of people listened to the beginning of your episode, it means 15% began listening at another location. Simplecast Web Players allows the listener to scrub to a specific time to begin listening - sometimes people will skip the beginning of the episode. This occurs because the percentage shown is out of the total unique listeners who listened to the web player. Why wouldn’t I see 100% of listeners showing up on the retention chart? This chart is intended to be a representation of listeners who are genuinely tuning in. The reason for this is that someone who listens to a second of your episode and then subscribes somewhere else and listens may skew the overall trend for your episode listen. We show data on the retention chart for listens that are at least 60 seconds in length. Why don’t I see that reflected on my retention chart? I clicked ‘play’ on my Web Player and listened for a couple of seconds. This is because the listener trends become more apparent (and useful!) with a larger dataset. It is showing data for your episode from July 5th onwards, regardless of the date range you have selected. The Rentention Chart is an all-time chart. I changed the date range on my Web Player analytics page, but the retention chart looks exactly the same. We began tracking events within the Simplecast web players on July 5, 2019 Why can’t I see data for Web Player analytics from before July 5? Those often extend beyond this guideline time span, so we use a different fingerprint system which we will soon expire daily. Starts have a duration (they begin and end).
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Streams correspond to single download events and IAB guidelines which require that multiple streams from the same user within a certain span of time count as one stream. *Starts and Streams are grouped by fingerprint (a unique combination of ingredients that may include an IP address, user agent, and browser data). This is measured when someone clicks the Play button on the Simplecast web player and then they press pause, closes their browser, or completes listening to the episode.* In order to avoid overloading that term, stream is used instead. We changed the terminology on this page because the Simplecast web player also allows users to download the entirety of the mp3 of the episode.
It is measured when someone clicks the Play button on a web player and has streamed the audio for at least 60 seconds. We use the terminology ‘download’ to mean someone listening to your episode from any player in most of our Analytics (the audio is incrementally ‘downloaded’ in order to be played from a device).Ī ‘stream’ from the Simplecast web player means essentially the same thing. What is the difference between a ‘stream’ and a ‘download’? This is measured when someone clicks the Play button on the Simplecast web player and the browser downloads at least 60 seconds of the episode.* This is an IAB compliant metric.