Hosting: Podcast and episode analytics

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Track your podcast's streams, top episodes, listening apps, and audience locations from the Analytics tab in your hosting dashboard. View this data at the overall podcast level or check a single episode's analytics. You can also check your podcast and episode analytics from the Riverside iOS app.

You can also see separate analytics for episodes embedded on websites.

• Access podcast analytics

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. Navigate to the relevant studio.
  3. From the sidebar on the left, click Hosting.
  4. Click Analytics.
     

• Access episode analytics

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. Navigate to the relevant studio.
  3. From the sidebar on the left, click Hosting.
  4. Click the episode you want analytics for.

  5. In the episode window, click Analytics.

     

• Access podcast and episode analytics on iOS

  1. Open the Riverside iOS app.
  2. Log in to your Riverside account.
  3. In the top left corner, tap the menu icon.
  4. Tap the relevant studio.
  5. In the bottom toolbar, tap Analytics.
     Your podcast's analytics open. The podcast name appears under the Analytics heading.
     To view a single episode's analytics, scroll down and tap that episode.
     • The iOS app shows the same analytics data as your hosting dashboard on the web.
     • Analytics is available on the iOS app version 4.20 and later.
     • On the iOS app, Top Countries appears in each episode's analytics. To see the top countries for your whole podcast, open your hosting dashboard in a computer browser.

Download your analytics as a CSV

1. Log in to your Riverside account.
2. Navigate to the relevant studio.
3. From the sidebar on the left, click Hosting.
4. Click Analytics.
5. Click Download CSV.
   The CSV file saves to your computer's downloads folder and lists total streams for each episode, broken down by day.
   Downloading a CSV is available from a computer browser only.
   

Understanding the analytics dashboard

Analytics data refreshes regularly. RSS-based data updates approximately every 30 minutes. Spotify and YouTube data can take longer to reflect recent activity.

Streams

The Streams metric displays the total number of plays over a selected time range, shown per day. View this at the podcast level for a high-level view of your show's overall listening activity, or at the episode level for a closer look at a single episode's performance.

Riverside counts streams from 3 sources: RSS-based plays (from apps like Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts), Spotify streams, and YouTube views. Each source is tracked separately and combined to give you the full picture of your podcast and episode reach.

Stream counts are based on each platform's reporting standards. For Spotify, an episode must be played for more than 1 minute to count as a stream. For podcast apps using your RSS feed, there is no minimum listening time required for a play to count as a stream.

Filter the data by time range to see how your podcast or episode performs over different periods:

• Last 7 days 
• Last 30 days 
• Last 6 months
• Last 12 months
• Custom
  To choose a custom date range:
  1. Click the date dropdown.
  2. Click Custom.
  3. In the Custom timeframe window, select a Start and End date on the calendar.
  4. Click Apply.
     You can select any date within the last 2 years.
     Recent episodes and Top episodes use their own date filters that need to be applied separately.
     

Recent episodes

The Recent episodes metric displays data for your 5 most recent episodes. You can filter the data using two key factors:

1. Time Range:
   • First 7 Days: Total streams each episode receives within its first week.
   • First 30 Days: Total streams within the first month after release.

2. Daily vs. Cumulative:

   • Daily: Timeline of daily streams, helping you spot peaks, drops, and trends in listener engagement.

   • Cumulative: Total number of streams each episode has received to date.

Top episodes

The Top episodes metric displays your most-streamed episodes. You can filter the view to show either the top 5 episodes or all episodes.

Top Apps

The Top Apps metric displays where people are streaming your podcast, including from embedded players on any web page. It includes the number of streams and a percentage breakdown for each listening platform. Smaller platforms and web browsers are grouped under Other.

Note: Spotify and YouTube report playback data through their own APIs rather than your RSS feed, which is why they appear as distinct sources in this breakdown.

Filter the data by time range to update the Top Apps metric for the selected timeframe:

• Last 7 days
• Last 30 days
• Last 6 months
• Last 12 months
• Custom

Top Countries

The Top Countries metric displays your 10 largest audiences by country, along with a percentage breakdown of total streams.

Filter by time range to update the Top Countries metric:

• Last 7 days

• Last 30 days

• Last 6 months

• Last 12 months

• Custom

Location data for YouTube views only appears after a video or channel reaches a minimum view count as per YouTube's policy. If YouTube makes up a large share of your streams and your Top Countries data looks incomplete, this is usually why. The data fills in once views increase.

Good to know

• The iOS app shows the same analytics data as your hosting dashboard on the web.
• Analytics is available on the iOS app version 4.20 and later.
• Analytics are not available on the Android app.
• On the iOS app, Top Countries appears in each episode's analytics. To see the top countries for your whole podcast, open your hosting dashboard in a computer browser.
• If the selected studio doesn't host a podcast on Riverside, the Analytics tab has no data to show.

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