The statistics that Libsyn offers in the advanced package give you precise details about your podcast's performance so you can learn how your show is growing and where it is popular. For example, advanced stats give you information about what apps and destinations your audience uses to listen to your episodes, as well as information about where in the world your listeners are downloading your content.
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Note The features in the advanced stats package are only available with the $20-level plan and higher. If you want to upgrade to advanced statistics, click Settings at the top your Libsyn account, and then click Billing. You can then select a new plan in the Plan field. |
To access your stats, click Stats at the top of your Libsyn account. At any time, you can switch between unique downloads and IAB downloads by clicking the toggle in the upper-right of the page. For more information about unique and IAB downloads, see Understand the Difference Between IAB and Unique Downloads.
Overview of Your Podcast and Episode Statistics
The advanced statistics package includes everything that comes in the basic package and much more. You can learn about the features in the basic stats package by reviewing the following article: Review the Statistics That Come in the Basic Package. Details about everything that's included in the advanced package is covered in the Review Your Advanced Statistics section below.
Review Your Advanced Statistics
The advanced features you get with the advanced stats package appear toward the bottom of the Statistics page, after the Statistics By Date Range button. The advanced features give you a section called Downloads per Country where you can review which countries your listeners are downloading your episodes from. In addition, you can review what programs your listeners are using to download your episodes, and which destinations your listeners are downloading your episodes from.
Set a Specific Date Range
Before you begin reviewing your advanced stats, make sure to adjust the date range. The advanced features only show downloads over the date range you select.
To change the date range, click the Statistics By Date Range button to open the calendar.
To set a date range in the calendar, you can:
| a. | Click one of the options on the left. |
| b. | Drag your mouse cursor over the dates you want to select. Selected dates appear in green. |
| c. | Enter a number in the days up to today box to select however many days you want to view up to and including today. |
| d. | Click the boxes at the top and manually enter dates with your keyboard. |
When you're done selecting dates, click Select Dates in the upper-right of the calendar to apply them.
Review Which Countries Your Listeners are Downloading Your Episodes from
In the Downloads per Country section, you can see the countries where your podcast is most popular. The right side of the section lists countries in order from most downloads to least. The download count includes all downloads for all episodes over the time range you selected.
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Note You can also review downloads per country for an individual episode. To do so, select the episode you want to review in the Episode Totals table. For more information about how to use that table, see the Episode Totals section in Review the Statistics That Come in the Basic Package. |
Here are the options you have in the Downloads per Country section for reviewing your downloads:
| a. | Hover your mouse cursor over a country to see the download numbers for that country. |
| b. | Click any country on the map to see a breakdown of your download numbers in that country by area. For example, if you click the United States, you can see downloads by state. Click the |
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Note If you click the U.S. to see a breakdown by state, you can also click Markets in the upper-right to see your stats broken down by market area. A market area designates a region where people might receive similar radio, TV, and other media offerings, such as newspapers or magazines. The Markets option is only available for the U.S. For other countries, you can see breakdowns by regions, such as provinces. |
| c. | Click the + or - icons to zoom in or out of the map. You can also click and drag the map to change its position. |
| d. | Click Previous or Next, or click a page number to scroll through the list of countries. |
| e. | Search for a country. To do so, click the |
See Which Programs Your Listeners Are Using to Listen to Your Episodes
A user agent refers to any program or app that listeners can use to access your content, such as Chrome, the Apple Podcasts app, Firefox, Pandora, the Spotify app, and more. These are the programs listeners use to access content. You can review these stats to get accurate download counts and to determine where your listeners are engaging your episodes most frequently.
The Downloads per User Agent section gives you all of the stats associated with user agents. The download count includes all downloads for all episodes over the time range you selected.
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Note You can also review downloads per user agent for an individual episode. To do so, select the episode you want to review in the Episode Totals table. See the Episode Totals section in Review the Statistics That Come in the Basic Package. |
Here is everything you can do in the Downloads per User Agent section:
| a. | Click Previous or Next, or click a page number to scroll through the list of user agents. |
| b. | Search for a user agent. To do so, click the |
See Where Your Listeners Are Downloading Your Episodes from
A destination, also known as a publication destination, is any place that you have set up in your Libsyn account to publish your episodes to, including the Apple Podcasts / Libsyn Classic Feed, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and more.
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Important Note that Apple Podcasts pulls from your Apple Podcasts / Libsyn Classic Feed, which means that Apple Podcasts itself is not a destination. If you have set up your podcast to appear in Apple Podcasts, then you can review the Apple Podcasts / Libsyn Classic Feed destination to get a sense of how many downloads are coming from Apple Podcasts. However, those numbers might include any other directory that is pulling from your Apple Podcasts / Libsyn Classic Feed. |
The Downloads per Destination section gives you your destination stats. The download count includes all downloads for all episodes over the time range you selected.
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Note You can also review downloads per destination for an individual episode. To do so, select the episode you want to review in the Episode Totals table. See the Episode Totals section in Review the Statistics That Come in the Basic Package. |
Here is everything you can do in the Downloads per Destination section:
| a. | Click Previous or Next, or click a page number to scroll through the list of destinations. |
| b. | Search for a destination. To do so, click the |
| c. | Click the name of a destination to see more specific stats for that destination. Many of the features provided for your podcast are also available when reviewing destination stats, such as setting a date range and hovering your mouse cursor over a graph to get more information. |
Track Your YouTube Views
The YouTube section displays the number of views you've received on YouTube for the episodes you've published there. It displays the date the episode was published on YouTube, the number of views it has received, the average duration of each view, and the total estimated minutes that people have spent watching your episode.
Some things you can do in the YouTube section:
| a. | Click Previous or Next, or click a page number to scroll through the list of episodes. |
| b. | Search for an episode. To do so, click the |
| c. | Click the name of an episode to watch it on YouTube. |
Export Your Statistics
The advanced stats package also includes the ability to export your Unique and IAB stats as either CSV, XLSB, or PDF files. For details, see Export Stats Reports.