[Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?

[Ken Fallon]

On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote:
>
> As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about 
> listenership numbers as well.
>
> Caveats:
> 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, 
> but without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're 
> likely to have.
> 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise.
>
> While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be 
> nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to 
> listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent 
> schedule that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things 
> would be either consistent or growing.
>
> Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude 
> larger than that number does the average episode reach?
>
"Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into 
the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>. You know the big double 
decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads, 
that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>." See 
https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information.

We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are 
listeners.

However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show 
on the topic. ;-)

The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page 
<https://archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio?sort=-date>. The dates 
can be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave 
sent me )

SELECT

MIN(e.date) AS joindate

FROM eps e

JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid

GROUP BY h.hostid

ORDER BY joindate DESC;

The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql


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Regards,

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
https://kenfallon.com
https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
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