geeknewscentral.com— Forrester came out with a study yesterday that said that no one actually listened to podcasts. Well, that is completely wrong and you can read here for proof.
Apr 7, 2006View in Crawl 4
Wait.. You're looking at downloads? Isn't that one of the things that Forrester research is claiming is NOT a good indicator? Also, they're talking about the USA, and you're looking at global stats?
Even if Todd is wrong. There can't be only 700,000 listeners how would they track that data? Did they go to PodTrac? PodShow? RawVoice? The Twits? I think if they got data from those poeple and accumulated all of that data, they would have a much better idea on number of listeners.
@tryferos: Alex Albrecht funny!? You have got to be kidding me. How is that man funny? Sorry Alex, but if you're reading this, you need to learn about timing, you're always cutting off Kevin and it just makes your lame attempt at humour even less funny.
"Isn't that one of the things that Forrester research is claiming is NOT a good indicator?"It's one of those things that would put Forrester out of business if it WAS a good indicator.I'm not saying this gives the full picture either, but there's a need for more information. Podcasting is certainly relatively marginal as media goes, but it can be marginal and still be pretty big.
theone3Apr 7, 2006
Wait.. You're looking at downloads? Isn't that one of the things that Forrester research is claiming is NOT a good indicator? Also, they're talking about the USA, and you're looking at global stats?
koldarkApr 7, 2006
Even if Todd is wrong. There can't be only 700,000 listeners how would they track that data? Did they go to PodTrac? PodShow? RawVoice? The Twits? I think if they got data from those poeple and accumulated all of that data, they would have a much better idea on number of listeners.
rompom7Apr 8, 2006
@tryferos: Alex Albrecht funny!? You have got to be kidding me. How is that man funny? Sorry Alex, but if you're reading this, you need to learn about timing, you're always cutting off Kevin and it just makes your lame attempt at humour even less funny.
brandizzleApr 8, 2006
Hasn't this always been the problem with media on the internet? There still isn't an accurate way to find out what people are watching/listening.
numbnutsApr 8, 2006
Maybe more podcasters should do this to "Hypnotize" the listeners (with bineural beats) into not reading to studies<a class="user" href="http://podcast.mytake2.com">http://podcast.mytake2.com</a>
nigeltufnelApr 10, 2006
"Isn't that one of the things that Forrester research is claiming is NOT a good indicator?"It's one of those things that would put Forrester out of business if it WAS a good indicator.I'm not saying this gives the full picture either, but there's a need for more information. Podcasting is certainly relatively marginal as media goes, but it can be marginal and still be pretty big.