Mine wife was asking me how many people listen to our podcast to which I said, “I dunno.” but I resolved to look into it. A few days later I remembered to do so. As it turns out you cannot get stats from Apple. They don’t offer those for love or money.
I can always download my web traffic logs and parse them (Episode 10 Part 1 has been pulled 355 times since it went up 3 days ago for instance) but that’s a chore and I only get 9 log files from my isp (www.1and1.com) which auto recycle when they hit around 40megs. Right now that only let’s me go back about 3 months. And the time frame between them is shrinking the last one only lasted a week before it was archived and the oldest one deleted to start a new one.
In an effort to get some easier stats to view and some more long term stats I’ve invoked the stats option on my blubrry plugin which is what I use to show them in posts here and auto submit them to itunes. For easy podcasting through wordpress blubrry does a great job by the way.
I’m not sure what using their redirect might change and what that might screw up so you 355 people that are listening to my podcast please let me know if you run into any problems. I’ll be deleting it and resubscribing from time to time in the next few days to check but if it breaks let me know.
I’ve also noted that itunes was only showing the last 10 podcasts. Not very new listener friendly. I’ve made some changes that should make it possible to pull all the casts going back to the first one from either the podcast feed or through itunes or from you ipod/iphone (open itunes on the phone and search podcasts for key our cars) directly. If you’re a new listener and started somewhere in the middle, again my apologies for the quality of the first couple of episodes. Recording casts is a learning experience.
