"Views" on a video is just like pageviews - pretty static stat. I would think some more telling stats would be:
1) Subscribers to our vlog 2) %/# of Return viewers (how many people have watched more than 1 of your videos). Does Feedburner help to track these statistics? -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - my mefeedia page Our blog: http://mefeedia.com/blog --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Devlon Duthie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stat tracking for media is a bitch. > > Content can be linked in and pulled around by so many aggregators, > rss-forwarders, etc. that one single piece of media can appear in 10 > different places quite easily. > > I have no solid suggestions yet :) but this is a conversation dear to my > heart....and all my pulled out hair. > > > -- > -Devlon > > http://devlonduthie.com | http://mefeedia.com | http://node- 64.com/blog > MSN: du.th.ied > AIM: devlond > > -----Original Message----- > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rupert > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:06 AM > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [videoblogging] Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics > > I'm on a roll, today. > > I'd like to suggest that more of us should try to be open about how > many views we get. I mean, not *all* of us, obviously. There are > those of us who won't want to say for commercial or other reasons. > > But I keep hearing people worrying about how few views they're > getting. And I'm sure that part of their worry is that other people > are getting far more. And I'm not sure that that's true. I'd bet > any money that 99% of the people on this list get two figure views > for all their videos combined per day. And I'd bet the majority get > single figure views per day. > > This is important in the discussion of monetizing videoblogging, too, > perhaps. > > I think Youtube has distorted expectations - by its nature, it > attracts clusters of people to feast on certain featured & popular > videos in a way that's quite different to what a lot of us are > doing. And as Mark Day said last week, even on Youtube the really > big view numbers are rare. > > Personally, I don't think that getting just a few people per day or > per week is bad at all. Your films are still being seen by more > people than they would if you were taking them to a local film night, > or showing them in a local gallery, which was the only forum for them > before the web. > > And you're actually connecting with the people who are watching them, > in a way that wouldn't happen otherwise. And probably in a more > profound way than you would if you had 1000 people all wanting to > talk to you. > > You don't have to join in this game - it's not Truth or Dare! - but > to get the ball rolling, here are my own stats. > > They're a bit weird compared to most, probably, because I only > started Twittervlog 3 months ago, I've made 89 videos in that time > and I pimp it all the time on Twitter - that must be where I get most > of my views. > > I feel it's been successful on a personal level - I've met all sorts > of great people and it's been a lot of fun. But featured status on > Youtube - or even on Blip - it ain't. > > I have posted 89 films. With 14,000 views in total. That's an > average of 150 per film. I figure - what? - half of those have > actually watched the video to the end? > > 25 videos ( a third of them) have less than 100 views in total > > another 57 videos (almost two thirds) have between 100 and 250 > > and only 7 have more than 250 - all of these have been featured > somewhere, like The End of Pixelodeon, or the Vlog Deathmatch video. > > The Vlog Deathmatch video is the most popular, and has topped out at > 765 views. Which is a fraction of what Irina and The Burg's total > votes were, I'm sure! At the end of the Deathmatch, I think it'd had > 350 or so views. > > The only Youtube context I can give to this is the Flashmob video, > which has had 13,000 views on Youtube, and 746 on my site. > > Oh, and I now have around 50 or so subscribers (Feedburner number). > > I don't know - maybe I'm wrong and you're all getting thousands and > thousands of views for every film you make... but my heart tells me > that's not so... and if it isn't, do we average non-commercial > videobloggers need to readjust our expectations? > > Is getting 100 views on a video after it's been out there for a few > months really so bad? Imagine those 100 people in your local bar or > in your house! That's quite a lot of people. And then add all your > videos together. You've made 50? And they average 100 views in the > end? That's 5000 in total! And 5000 was a big number for Jesus... :) > > I remember a time when we complained about people's Feedcounters, and > the pressure of popularity that comes with people talking about > statistics. I hate that. But on the other hand, it's terrible if > everybody thinks that they can't say how many viewers they have > because they'd be perceived as unpopular and unsuccessful. > > I'd be really interested on your thoughts about this. > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links >
