Justin Wayne, one of my fellow podcasters from AMP and MIUK has written a report for his college on the future of podcasting. He’s based it on figures from a number of podcasts, including my own, and has included soundbytes from Rodrigo de Sa, from the Azores.
Both Justin and Rodrigo actively broadcast live in streamed shows, and, of course, I don’t, so we have different opionions, but it’s interesting to see what the figures show: both downloading and streaming are on the increase. New media (if it still is “new” of course) is alive and well.
Checkout the report in full here.
Hi Pete,
I hope I captured your comments well. This was a very interesting report to do, I’d be very interested to see more podcast numbers put together. I would also be interested to see if other podcasters agreed with my use of the “Reach” figure to measure streaming and online access.
Thanks you again very much for the access, insight, and input.
We have to assume that feedburner (ie Google) know what they are calculating when they give use these figures. I know that any streaming of individual files on this website (http://petecogle.com) is from the mevio source files, and is therefore not counted in your research. However the flash players I have on the site use the feedburner podcast feed, so they will be included.
I know from son’s music consumtion habits that streaming is ONLY what he does, but he’s an IT guy at his PC 24×7. I like offline listening, but maybe I’m now the minority?
Anyway, interesting report. Thanks for sharing!