TechnoMagicians Blog

Today though, with all the excitement about rich media, whether its video or audio, you hear and read all about
views and listens.

Which leads me to the question: Just what is a view or listen ?

For podcasts, is a listen a download ? I hope not, i have several podcasts in Itunes i subscribe to, and that
download every episode, but I havent listened to in a long while. A couple others I have listened to the first several
seconds or minutes of, but havent really dented. How would what i just did fit into the podcasts metrics ?

In radio there is Time Spent Listening. There are quarter hours , where a radio station gets credit for someone
listening for 15 minutes if they listen for 5 minutes. Are there standards for podcasts ?

Then there are videso on the net. Just what exactly is a view ?  Our HDNet Trailer for an upcoming
Dennis Rodman show has been viewed 2339
times.  I know i have gone to the site and it has started running at least 20 times that I didnt watch it all
the way through. Are those counted ? I cant find anywhere on the Youtube.com site that defines how views are counted.
Did i miss it ?