New Podcaster here - added the prefix but no feed #34

Alright, should be all set: your stats page is here -> https://op3.dev/show/75c89d61-5048-525f-a82c-effd84045aa8

(also available via search in the setup page)

Possibly - numbers reported by different systems will always be somewhat different for a variety of reasons. Even though most systems use the IAB standard, there is room within that standard for deviation depending on what inputs are used. Also prefixed-based system like OP3 see requests somewhat differently than the actual podcast hosting company.

One of the nice things about OP3 is that it provides a standard apples-to-apples comparison for shows across hosts, and consistent when a given show changes podcast hosting company, which happens surprisingly often.

Worth keeping an eye on it over the next few months and see where things land.

Let me go back and take a look at that spot in the system, it's been a while since the initial launch. If there isn't already a box for detailed regions in Africa, it should be easy to add given the underlying data.

Ok, the Top African regions box is now appearing for your show...
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...and like the other region boxes, that box will be visible on any OP3-measured show if the sum of all regions in that area is over 3 percent. Here's an example from Think Fast, Talk Smart
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Let's see:

does that mean there were no more downloads for that episode

Yes, for example the last non-bot download for the 9/10 episode was on 10/2. You can always see every download into a spreadsheet for a given month using the export box at the bottom of the stats page.

is there a way to download the unique listeners data?

In that same export spreadsheet, you can use the audienceId column as a proxy for a unique listener, defined by the IAB as IP address (or IP address secure hash in OP3's case) + the user-agent (ie the app). Note that this is a secure one way hash, and the key used is rotated every month, so think of an audienceId as only being valid within a given month.

For the ID hash, you mentioned it is rotated for privacy, does that mean a unique listener could be counted multiple times

You'll notice that OP3 shows unique listeners for a given month only. Since they all reset at the first of the month, you can't make any sums of unique listeners across month boundaries. Downloads you can sum across months, but not unique listeners.

Taking a step back, the reason OP3 rotates the IP address secure hash (and thus the audienceId, which is based on it) every month, is so that callers can't take a really long view of data at a fixed IP (say at home) and start to figure out who it might be using months and months of data. The only thing we lose when we do this is the ability to track these listeners across months, which is not the end of the world from a stats point of view, and seems like a reasonable tradeoff to maintain OP3's strong listener privacy stance.

In general, the 30-day episode download number is a measurement that several companies use as the best metric to compare shows. If I were to add another "big box" at the top of the OP3 stats page for every show, it would be median 30-day episode downloads. That really gives you a good idea of "how many regular listeners do I have?"

I won't impugn any other system, but I'll just say OP3 puts considerable effort into being as accurate as a prefix can be. The gory details, if you are interested, are in the "How OP3 calculates downloads" link on every stats page.

OP3 (and every prefix and your hosting company) measures downloads on the server-side. The client-side Listen Time metric you'll see on some OP3 shows is from a very small number of special apps that have listeners that send micropayments as they are listening, which OP3 can also see if the podcaster chooses. See the 2024年01月10日 entry on the Releases page for more info.

If you are not already doing so, you should log into Apple Podcasts Connect and periodically monitor the client-side stats they provide for your show. Unfortunately they do not allow third-party integrations of that data, so you have to go there directly.

Hi there - you shouldn't need to remove the prefix from your old host, just add it to your new host (if they support third-party prefixes, not all hosts do)

Once you've migrated, your old host should forward your old podcast RSS feed to a new location at the new host. OP3 should notice this and associate listens at the new host with your existing show stats page.

Hope that helps!

Please use this link going forward to access your show stats: https://op3.dev/show/cddc5343cf694cb099bf724d213b2ec6

That url uses the stable OP3 internal identifier and won't change even if your show changes hosts. I see your new Captivate feed on the backend, the system should pick it up tomorrow, and allocate any downloads already occurring there. I'll keep an eye on it.

Let's see, are you referring to this show? https://op3.dev/show/cddc5343cf694cb099bf724d213b2ec6

I just took a look at the downloads (using the Export at the bottom of the page) and it looks like there were no downloads from Africa in February so far, and only one download in the entire month of January. That box will only appear if there are some non-trivial percentage of downloads from there.

Send me an email to john@op3.dev and let me know more details, this will help me keep track of it better