SLS101: Show Statistics Updated on Spreaker

Spreaker Live Show #101 for Feb 8th, 2017Our Topics This Week: - Spreaker Updates Show Statistics that Rattles a Few - We clarify on the mysterious disappearing play and download counts!- No one lost any plays or downloads- Do Podcasters Really Need a Website? - Listener Comments Discussed Show Duration: 50 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Host of “The Exum Experience Podcast” on SpreakerOur Tip of the Week is back: Do You Really need a Website for your Podcast? We will discuss that later in the episode, but let’s get to the “MAIN EVENT”!This week Spreaker added a big new feature in our CMS area “New Statistics and We Removed Play and Download counts from public show, user profile and episode pages”- This change has drawn concerns from many, this change was recommended by me to the Spreaker team a year ago. - Why this change? - I believe and my experience is that most show creators don’t really want everyone to know these numbers. Most very professional pro podcaster only share numbers with advertisers.- Listeners seeing these numbers can lead people to only listen to your most popular episodes, the sheep syndrome. - Brings more focus on comment interactivity and followers- Your show will be judged less based on audience size and more on its content quality - Plays and Downloads counts have been gone from Spreaker Listening Apps for months- No one lost any plays or downloads with this update, may seem like it but - This is because before we aggregated plays + downloads in the same `Plays` and now we separate them, so the sum of `Total All time plays` and `Total Downloads` in the CMS should be the number they had before.Spreaker has a Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.comWe explain this BIG CMS Update: The Numbers Game: New Statistics added to Spreaker’s CMS This show can be heard in: SLS show Apps on iOS and Android, Spreaker Podcast Radio apps for Android and iOS, iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Radioline.com! Please leave a review.Reach me at [email protected] and @robgreenlee, Alex how can listeners reach you?Tweet @Spreaker on Twitter, Spreaker.comPodcasting Tip of the Week is back: Do You Really need a Website for your Podcast?-Simply said, YES. It may not seem like it, but you do for so many reasons-It is also true that Spreaker provides a website for your show at Spreaker.com-SLS has a redirect SpreakerLiveShow.com to it’s Spreaker show page-Truth is that your website will not be the primary place people use to listen to your show, but is a marketing tool to help with listener recruitment, loyalty building and sampling.-Spreaker has a WordPress plugin for posting episode to your blog. -Search discovery and an easy way to drive listeners to learn more about your show.-Add Subscribe links and audio playersListener Comments from SLS100 Kuldrin EnterprisesAre there any plans to add video to the desktop app?Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comrob at spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com