Introduction and Overview
It has been a fairly successful month for our podcasting service. YouTube stats have remained roughly the same as last month (despite the Easter break). Whilst our iTunes U stats are starting to increase again after a slow couple of months.
Views and Downloads from our two podcasting platforms:
Month | Youtube | iTunes | No. of videos added (not exact) | |
March 2012 | 2597 | 9798 | 36 | |
April | 2062 | 11159 | 25 | |
May | 2474 | 12820 | 36 | |
June | 2957 | 9142 | 31 | |
July | 3508 | 13209 | 14 | |
August | 4316 | 9045 | 18 | |
September* | 4254 | 7051 | 2 | |
October | 5160 | 8089 | 6 | |
November | 5192 | 8335 | 16 | |
December | 8114 | 12793 | 21 | |
January 2013 | 8016 | 18676 | 24 | |
February | 6936 | 7455 | 28 | |
March | 9239 | 7801 | 56 | |
April | 8582 | 10768 | 36 | |
* = Youtube estimate due to bot attack of about 12,200 extra views |
YouTube stats breakdown
Graph 1 shows a steady increase in YouTube views over the last year. During the last few months there has also been a large increase in the number of podcasts uploaded, showing the growth of the service. Of those watching our videos, most are directed via YouTube in some way or another, many using the YouTube search function or being suggested our videos. The 2 largest external website traffic sources are google.com and facebook.com. The playback location of our videos is predominantly in YouTube itself but also embedded players on our website, Facebook page and external blogs.
From March 2012 – April 2013 the Institutes most viewed videos are as follows:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies – Transitional Justice in Colombia and the Victims and Land Restitution Law (166 views)
- Institute of Classical Studies –‘Ovid’s Janus and the Start of the Year in Renaissance Fasti Sacri (90 views)
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies – Guest Speaker HRH Princess Anne – Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Monarchy and the Commonwealth (1,088 views)
- Institute of English Studies – A Short History of the Quill Pen (3,056 views)
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies – The Nightmare of Bram Stoker (360 views)
- Institute of Historical Research – Novel approaches: Hilary Mantel and David Loades in discussion (417 views)
- Institute of Musical Research – Brian Ferneyhough Interview (5,304 views)
- Institute of Philosophy (IP) – Hume’s Legacy – Misunderstanding Hume: The Case of Practical Reason (451 views)
- Institute for the Study of the Americas – The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II: A Personal Memoir (1,713 views)
- The Warburg Institute – Benjamin’s Warburg: On the Influence of Walter Benjamin on Aby Warburg (1,019 views)
iTunes U stats breakdown
The top 10 most popular podcasts on iTunes U during April:
AutoDownload | Download | DownloadAll | Stream | Total | |
Roman Jakobson: Poetry of Self, City, Sign and Form | 510 | 275 | 6 | 721 | 1512 |
Pre Publication Briefing Event Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary | 44 | 291 | 6 | 700 | 1041 |
London Screenwriting Seminar: Sean French and Nicci Gerrard | 165 | 137 | 6 | 202 | 510 |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar: History’s Subjects: Race and National Form | 238 | 19 | 4 | 36 | 297 |
Interview with Professor Giuseppe O. Longo (University of Trieste): Trieste, Memory and Beyond (in Italian | 52 | 124 | 6 | 106 | 288 |
Protocols for Encoding Shakespeare | 86 | 108 | 6 | 68 | 268 |
A Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions | 44 | 112 | 6 | 76 | 238 |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship | 44 | 116 | 6 | 71 | 237 |
La scrittura dell’emigrante e dell’emigrato: Memory and the Present | 53 | 105 | 6 | 58 | 222 |
Discovering and Using Ancient Place Data | 46 | 99 | 6 | 52 | 203 |
Graph 2 shows dramatic monthly changes of views & downloads on our iTunes U platform in the last year.