Internet Radio Listeners are quantified and compiled by the streaming server which is completely seperate from actual website statistics. The internet radio audience is said to be about 70-72 million per week.
Alexa does provides website statistics. However, the website stats are accumulated only from their community of sites who participate by installing and using their toolbar. According to Alexa, Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community who uses the toolbar contributes to the information about the web to the Alexa site, but the information gathered about any website is limited to what is gathered from their million or so tool bar users. This is the information used to provide a website's traffic rankings and related links on their site.
So although the Alexa website gives you a helpful snapshot of a website's statistics per Alexa's user community it does not and cannot count web radio listeners and is not a complete picture of a website's real traffic or positioning in the total web world.
I think Alexa is fun and I have been going their periodically for years. It does give me a snapshot of their user community and to us here at HealthyLife.net. everyone is important. But when looking at our statistics, our links and our actual demographics gleaned directly from our Clubhouse Alexa's information about the healthylife.net website is somewhat inaccurate for the real big picture of a website's positioning, website traffic and links.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
HealthyLife.net Speeds Past '50' and Hits The Fast Lane With Automotive Legend Bobby Likis
HealthyLife.net Speeds Past '50' and Hits The Fast Lane With Automotive Legend Bobby Likis: "the world's original all-positive web talk radio network has surpassed the '50' milestone mark of distribution channels and beginning June 5, 2010, gains even more speed with the addition of Bobby Likis to the network's already illustrious cache of show hosts."
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The 8 Truths of Internet Radio Audience Measurement
Page views DO NOT measure listeners
A page view is a unit for measuring Web readership. It is the count of how many times a web page is requested. Streaming Servers measure listeners who listen to the audio stream. Not all listeners who visit a web page listen to the Internet radio stream.
Streaming servers DO NOT measure all listeners if station is simulcast and/or syndicated on other distribution channels
A streaming server measures listeners but if a station is connected to outside distribution channels like WiFi, Mobile, ITunes, private radio networks or Microsoft's Radio Tuner the stream that is picked up looks like one (1) listener to the streaming server when in fact it could be thousands.
An age old radio brand name DOES NOT necessarily mean they have more listeners on their Internet stations than an Internet Radio Streaming Station
Listeners have the power of choice and there are hundreds of thousands of web radio stations that reach their targeted niche markets. The terrestrial radio industry has only taken Internet radio seriously over the last 2 years. 24/7 Internet radio networks that have been in place for 7 or more years have more loyal listeners since they have been in the marketplace longer.
Internet audio listening has surpassed AM/FM terrestrial radio
According to the Arbitron/Edison 'The Infinite Dial 2010' study Internet Audio listening has now surpassed AM/FM terrestrial listening.
Podcasts DO NOT provide more listeners than an Internet Radio Stream
Internet streaming radio usually provides 24/7 live coverage with multiple hosts, on demand listening and podcast download options. Internet Radio's average listener TSL (Time Spent Listening) is 2-3 hours. A podcast is usually a 1-hour audio program available live at a specific time and/or made available as a download. A podcast's average TSL (Time Spent Listening) is 3-5 minutes at the top of the hour.
Outside audience measuring services DO NOT provide real numbers
Based on a small audience sampling for a particular genre, usually music, extrapolated numbers are used to determine audience measurement. For example, the Arbitron/Edison 'The Infinite Dial 2010' did a telephone survey of 1,753 people, age 12 and older, to provide statistical information about the radio music industry. Internet Radio has an audience of over 72 million Internet listeners a week. This sampling is much less than even 1% of the audience size and has no relevance for talk radio at all.
Demographics are suspect unless station has its own collection method
Each station is usually unique because of niche market genres and marketing efforts. Real demographic info comes from a station's data gleaned from their own data collection methods such as a clubhouse, surveys or polls.
Pre-roll video ads on Internet radio stations lose listeners
Americans and Internet Users - WANT IT NOW!. There are 100s of 1000s of Internet radio sites to choose from. If a radio station website delays the audio stream, which is what the listener wants and is expecting to hear, the listener will usually click off the site or get frustrated waiting for the audio stream to start, resulting in an unsatisfactory user experience.
Check out HealthyLife.Net Radio Network's Demographics Here: http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/CHSR Demographics.htm
A page view is a unit for measuring Web readership. It is the count of how many times a web page is requested. Streaming Servers measure listeners who listen to the audio stream. Not all listeners who visit a web page listen to the Internet radio stream.
Streaming servers DO NOT measure all listeners if station is simulcast and/or syndicated on other distribution channels
A streaming server measures listeners but if a station is connected to outside distribution channels like WiFi, Mobile, ITunes, private radio networks or Microsoft's Radio Tuner the stream that is picked up looks like one (1) listener to the streaming server when in fact it could be thousands.
An age old radio brand name DOES NOT necessarily mean they have more listeners on their Internet stations than an Internet Radio Streaming Station
Listeners have the power of choice and there are hundreds of thousands of web radio stations that reach their targeted niche markets. The terrestrial radio industry has only taken Internet radio seriously over the last 2 years. 24/7 Internet radio networks that have been in place for 7 or more years have more loyal listeners since they have been in the marketplace longer.
Internet audio listening has surpassed AM/FM terrestrial radio
According to the Arbitron/Edison 'The Infinite Dial 2010' study Internet Audio listening has now surpassed AM/FM terrestrial listening.
Podcasts DO NOT provide more listeners than an Internet Radio Stream
Internet streaming radio usually provides 24/7 live coverage with multiple hosts, on demand listening and podcast download options. Internet Radio's average listener TSL (Time Spent Listening) is 2-3 hours. A podcast is usually a 1-hour audio program available live at a specific time and/or made available as a download. A podcast's average TSL (Time Spent Listening) is 3-5 minutes at the top of the hour.
Outside audience measuring services DO NOT provide real numbers
Based on a small audience sampling for a particular genre, usually music, extrapolated numbers are used to determine audience measurement. For example, the Arbitron/Edison 'The Infinite Dial 2010' did a telephone survey of 1,753 people, age 12 and older, to provide statistical information about the radio music industry. Internet Radio has an audience of over 72 million Internet listeners a week. This sampling is much less than even 1% of the audience size and has no relevance for talk radio at all.
Demographics are suspect unless station has its own collection method
Each station is usually unique because of niche market genres and marketing efforts. Real demographic info comes from a station's data gleaned from their own data collection methods such as a clubhouse, surveys or polls.
Pre-roll video ads on Internet radio stations lose listeners
Americans and Internet Users - WANT IT NOW!. There are 100s of 1000s of Internet radio sites to choose from. If a radio station website delays the audio stream, which is what the listener wants and is expecting to hear, the listener will usually click off the site or get frustrated waiting for the audio stream to start, resulting in an unsatisfactory user experience.
Check out HealthyLife.Net Radio Network's Demographics Here: http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/CHSR Demographics.htm
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Lions and Tigers and Cars...Oh MY!
Okay so you got a rattle in your car...or maybe something falls off and you pick it up and wonder what in the heck is this...then if you're anything like me you might wonder, "What is this going to cost!"
Or how about..."I'd like to purchase one of those new green cars, but which one is going to really help me and the environment?"
Well I'm here to tell you that the man in the picture is Bobby Likis and he has been on TV and radio since 1986 talking to people just like us so that we can be car saavy!
Starting June 5 from 7am - 9am PT, 10am - Noon ET, Bobby Likis Car Clinic will be pulling into the HealthyLife.Net Radio Showroom and virtually broadcasting live over the web to answer all your questions and to give you fantastic giveaways like a $500.00 free gas card during his show.
And if that's not enough to rev your engines...this show will be the fastest 2 hours of FUN in car-talk radio. Bobby Likis is the consumer connection to automobiles! Car Clinic programs are sheer “Infotainment,” designed to inform and entertain you in the automotive lifestyle.
When Bobby says, “We’ve been there & done that,” they’re not kidding! The original “Bobby Likis Car Clinic” was born in November 1986 on a local cable television network. The program increased in popularity, and by 1991, audience response was so tremendous that Bobby moved Car Clinic to the Gulf Coast ABC affiliate, where it was an outstanding success. 1991 also marked the birth of Car Clinic on the radio.
Bobby has worn every hat in the automotive industry: technician, race car driver & pit crew, automotive service center owner, industry consultant and radio & TV talk-show host.
In the TV and radio industry since 1986, Bobby Likis is the only car-talk host named to the "Talkers 250," the list of the top 250 talk-show hosts in America. Bobby has been published in Motor Age, AutoInc and more.
Bobby is a Florida Certified Arbitrator for the Ford Motor Company, serves as technical advisor for a regional law firm, and is a member of the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association, the Automotive Service Association, the Automotive Communications Council, the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association, and the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts. He serves on NAPA's National AutoCare Advisory Board, on Daytona's Advanced Technical Center Board, and on the Pensacola Junior College Automotive Service Management Technology Advisory Committee.
So don't forget to tune in to HealthyLife.Net Radio (http://www.healthylife.net)Saturday June 5th to Bobby Likis Car Clinic and get you're motors runnin'!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Want to find the best web talk radio?
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Arbitron or Arbitrary?
Arbitron and Edison Research have released their “2010 Infinite Dial” Report. I repeat the question I asked them in 2004 at the RAIN Internet Radio Conference held at the NAB 2004 convention (when the Internet total suspected audience size was 32 million)…“How can Arbitron/Edison conduct a relevant study representing over 70 million internet listeners when they did a telephone survey of 1,753 people age 12 and older?”
I mean math was not my strongest subject in school, although I did become a pretty competent and respected data com engineer, and must admit I still shake when I think of my Probabilities & Statistics college class – but please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t 1% of 70 million equal to 700,000?
Isn’t Arbitron-Edison’s sampling of 1,753 people interviewed in this survey just a little short of even 1% of the Internet’s 70 million total listeners? Years ago I was told that Arbitron’s numbers represented a 12:1 ratio (1 person interviewed = 12 people’s views). So if we even use this equation the number of 1,753 people becomes 21,036 people, which is still a little over 600,000+ short of a 1% sampling.
So although I personally hold Arbitron-Edison’s sampling base suspect, I do applaud them for trying to give us something! However most of the data in their report does not jive with HealthyLife.Net Radio Network’s data. The basis of our demographic breakdown comes from our clubhouse where people actually sign up and give pertinent information that is requested when they join.
Now Morgan Stanley just released an Internet Trends Report. Although not a survey, it is a commentary by various contributors AND Morgan Stanley does add a disclosure statement on their report which reads, “Morgan Stanley does not seek and do business with companies covered in Morgan Stanley research. As a result, Investors should be aware that the firm does have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of Morgan Stanley Research. Investors should consider Morgan Stanley Research as only a single factor in making their investment decision.”
Seems to me that Arbitron/Edison should probably put some type of similar disclosure on their research study since much, if not all, their sources of funds comes from the radio industry who are their clients and thus they may perhaps have a vested interest that may or may not affect objectivity.
The whole point of this is that the radio industry is changing so fast. I wonder if Arbitron-Edison by doing things the same old way of using extrapolated numbers (and make no mistake PPM is still the same old way) are the people who base their decisions on this data truly being served correctly? I just want to go on record that I have my doubts.
I mean math was not my strongest subject in school, although I did become a pretty competent and respected data com engineer, and must admit I still shake when I think of my Probabilities & Statistics college class – but please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t 1% of 70 million equal to 700,000?
Isn’t Arbitron-Edison’s sampling of 1,753 people interviewed in this survey just a little short of even 1% of the Internet’s 70 million total listeners? Years ago I was told that Arbitron’s numbers represented a 12:1 ratio (1 person interviewed = 12 people’s views). So if we even use this equation the number of 1,753 people becomes 21,036 people, which is still a little over 600,000+ short of a 1% sampling.
So although I personally hold Arbitron-Edison’s sampling base suspect, I do applaud them for trying to give us something! However most of the data in their report does not jive with HealthyLife.Net Radio Network’s data. The basis of our demographic breakdown comes from our clubhouse where people actually sign up and give pertinent information that is requested when they join.
Now Morgan Stanley just released an Internet Trends Report. Although not a survey, it is a commentary by various contributors AND Morgan Stanley does add a disclosure statement on their report which reads, “Morgan Stanley does not seek and do business with companies covered in Morgan Stanley research. As a result, Investors should be aware that the firm does have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of Morgan Stanley Research. Investors should consider Morgan Stanley Research as only a single factor in making their investment decision.”
Seems to me that Arbitron/Edison should probably put some type of similar disclosure on their research study since much, if not all, their sources of funds comes from the radio industry who are their clients and thus they may perhaps have a vested interest that may or may not affect objectivity.
The whole point of this is that the radio industry is changing so fast. I wonder if Arbitron-Edison by doing things the same old way of using extrapolated numbers (and make no mistake PPM is still the same old way) are the people who base their decisions on this data truly being served correctly? I just want to go on record that I have my doubts.
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