The Analytics tab in your hosting dashboard offers insight into your podcast’s performance, providing essential data to track listenership trends, identify top content, and better understand where and how your podcast is being consumed.
Who: Account owner, admins, directors, and editors
Plan: Pro, Live, Webinar, and Business
Device: Computer browser
Access podcast analytics
- Log in to your Riverside account.
- Navigate to the relevant studio.
- From the sidebar on the left, click Hosting.
- Click Analytics.
Understanding the analytics dashboard
Analytics data refreshes regularly. RSS-based data updates approximately every 30 minutes, while Spotify and YouTube data may take longer to reflect recent activity.
Streams
The Streams metric displays the total number of plays across all episodes of your podcast, shown per day over a selected time range. This data is presented at the podcast level, offering a high-level view of your show’s overall listening activity.
Riverside counts streams from three 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 a complete picture of your podcast's reach.
Stream counts are based on each platform's reporting standards. For Spotify, an episode must be played for more than one 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 performs over different periods:
- Last 7 days
- Last 30 days
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
Recent episodes
The Recent episodes metric displays data for your five most recent episodes. You can filter the data using two key factors:
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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.
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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
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