#950 Stop talking about the stats Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (9th January 2023)

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. My name's Jason Newland, my website's jasonnewland.com. Oh yeah, only listen when you can safely close your eyes. So if you're driving a plane, stop listening.

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I'd have to look at the technology. Wow, that was a bit of a flappy ear moment, Vinnie. Oops, oops, I did that, that was me, twice.

I involuntarily moved my hand. Doesn't normally happen with my left hand. So hello everybody, hope you're well.

I haven't made a recording for two days. Don't actually have a, don't have a reason for that. Oh, come on, mate.

I have to put you in a bedroom. Is that what you want? He's under the table, just like whining because he wants a treat. Doesn't quite get the idea that treats are not something you get for begging.

Because basically then I'm just rewarding him for bad behavior. No, no, no, that's the way it is. That wasn't even, that was a woof.

It sounded actually like a woof, didn't it? He can't even bark properly. Are you really a dog? Are you sure you're not like a little person inside a dog costume? Woof. Well, that's really bad acting.

You ain't going to win no Oscars doing that. Woof. At least I can go, woof, woof.

You're just going woof. You're putting no effort in. See, at this point, I wouldn't know, does he need the toilet? Does he need, what is it? Well, he's just literally just got home and he's just done a massive poo, which I picked.

Brilliant. Now he is in the bedroom. In the bedroom.

I'm going to put my headphones back on. I'm very professional. I like to have my headphones on now.

I think partly because sometimes I move a little bit too far away from the microphone. And because I haven't got my headphones on, I can't hear it. So I'm like talking like this.

And, you know, sometimes I think, oh my God, I'm still talking, but I'm doing the washing up. That's too far away from the microphone. It's in a different room.

So I, you know, I like to be able to hear my voice. Okay, I'll rewind that. I don't want to hear my voice.

It's not like, oh my voice. Oh yeah. Smells like I just farted.

I got close to the microphone. It smells like a dog's fart. He left one in here.

He did. He left a fart in there when I took him into the bedroom. He left a fart in there, knowing that I was going to close the door and I was going to be trapped in there with one of his farts.

Oh no, wait a minute. It's me. It's me.

I don't know if it's one of his farts or my cooking is, but I haven't been cooking. So it must be one of his farts. It must be.

Oh, so I'm feeling in quite a good mood today. So it's Monday the 9th of January 2023. And I don't know why.

That's one of the problems with, um, one of the problems with, I find with like bipolar or mood disorder is sometimes I'm in a good mood for no reason, no obvious reason. And other times I'm feeling the opposite for no obvious reason. And that's the hard part.

That's the harder part because like, why am I feeling like this? Everything's fine. Everything's okay, but I'm not feeling fine. I don't complain when I'm feeling good because that would be really weird.

Go to the doctor. Yeah. How can I help you? I'm just, I'm in a good mood today.

I don't know what to do. It's weird. It's a weird one.

Hmm. I've got the light on already. It's only 10 past four in the evening or the afternoon, the lights on.

The thing is it's not dark outside, but it's dark inside. It's very strange. I mean, it's not strange because I've experienced this uh, thousands and thousands and thousands of times in my lifetime, but it's just weird.

Isn't it? Don't you, don't you think a little bit weird? It's strange concept, you know, have to have the light on inside, but outside is fine. Don't need the lights on. Hmm.

So what's going on? Oh, I've had a couple of messages on YouTube. I should read them out to you. Oh, and also on my, what's it, uh, on my website.

So thank you to new subscribers on my way on my YouTube. I've got, I don't know how many I've got. I'll check in a minute.

I had this message from Uncle Hubert, which is Sebastian. For those that, you know, Sebastian, this is what he does. He says, uh, I want, I'm not, I might not read it all out because I've not read it yet in this one.

And he's talking about my last, let me bore you to sleep called morning shower number 948 in this one. Uncle unkempt, unkempt. Oh, that's rude.

Complains about his new dog, not being a willing and attentive audience for the big bi-monthly shower event. Bi-monthly, bi-yearly, but the doggo wants, rather wants clearly out of this new, rather dilapidated, the big words I know, diatopy. I don't know what that means.

Also, JJ is paranoid about doggo destroying Elton, JJ's inflatable husband from Amazon. Oh dear, dear, dear. I'm not telling you any more about my life, Sebastian.

You know, it's furthermore, he fantasize about his desire to look at stolen photo albums from strangers, neighbor family, neighbors, families for personal gratification, leading to him bragging and lying about having had irresponsible. Okay. Uh, something 30 years ago with no interest for the outcome at all.

He then goes at great length at his fantasy numbers as he is obsessed about one download in 10 million years or so. I've had three downloads in the last year, so don't, don't judge. But on the other side, I had a message from Jaya K saying, what a voice.

See, it's a nice message. And then I got another one from the same person. Jaya K on YouTube.

And this is from my safe space episode recording. Your voice is the voice dreams are made of. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Um, sounds like someone's barking. It's not him though.

He's quite good. He doesn't bark when I put him into the bedroom, which is good. So I had a message from my, it's Anya.

Uh, and it just says you, your voice is what the best dreams are made of. And that's from UK. It says, Anya.

So thank you Anya. And wow. I need to reply to that.

Thank you very much. I'm thinking it might be the same person as, uh, Jaya K because Anya. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Possibly.

So yeah. Thank you. I do appreciate that.

I don't get nearly enough compliments. Not nearly enough. Luckily I have no ego.

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

So I was going to say, uh, yeah, so today's all right. Uh, the part of the reason I didn't make a recording on Saturday was because I was watching boxing and the boxing started at two in the morning. So I was in bed early trying to get some sleep before two o'clock.

So I went to bed about 10, nine or 10. I can't remember. I set my alarm for 10 to two.

I really struggled to get out of bed. I really did. And that's just not, that's not just because I'm hugely fat.

It's also, and I roll around, I can't actually, I struggled to get onto my feet. So to keep rolling around on the bed and it's, it's just, I couldn't ask to, I can't do nights anymore. I used to, I used to be up all night, every night for years.

Now it's just not me anymore. It's almost like I'm getting old. I'm getting old.

So yeah, I did get up though and I watched it and I enjoyed it and it was a good night. And then Sunday, you know, I ended up going to bed about six 30 in the morning and Sunday was kind of ruined, you know, in a sense of I was tired and I didn't know where I was. And I also ended up going to bed about 10 o'clock Sunday evening.

And then I was, um, I can't remember. I'm not sure. I think I woke up and then I felt a bit weird.

Actually, I woke up at two o'clock, but I went back to bed because even though I felt awake, I thought, nah, if I get, if I get up, I'm going to have to eat because I, you know, I'd be hungry. And I didn't want to be eating at two o'clock in the morning. You know, that just ruined my diet.

If I had a diet, it would ruin my diet. So I ended up, I woke up at, I think it was about six o'clock, 10 to six. Went for a wee wee and I went back to bed.

I thought, you know what? I don't want to get up. Either that happened or something else happened. I think I might have woken up and just looked at the phone and thought, oh, I'll just close my eyes for a little bit more.

And then I woke up about quarter to eight, which is a nice time to wake up. It's better than like four in the morning. So I nearly said, Andre, Vinnie didn't wake me up to take him out because normally he wakes me up about half six, six, half six, something like that.

He didn't today. So I just got up and he was awake and I got in. I actually had to wake him up to take him out.

Well, not wake, he did, he woke up, but woke up. But to put his little harness on, he doesn't like it. So he growled at me and turned on me a little bit, which I'm not happy about.

He needs to stop doing that. He's getting better. He is getting better.

He's a lovely little dog. He's good. He is a good dog, generally.

But there's a few little things that he needs to sort out. And I think he's got away with pretty much anything he wants up to now. So a little bit of discipline, a little bit of, he needs to know who, who's who, the hierarchy that I'm in charge.

And not in a way that I want to boss him about, because I do want to boss him about, I do get him marching up and down and I want to teach him the trumpet at some point. But it's, I want to stop him from trying to run in the road, you know, when I've got the lead and get him to walk slowly across the road. And he's getting better.

He is getting better. But everything goes out the window if there's a cat, and he's looking, he'll go for the cat, no matter what happens, he'll go for the cat. And if there's a dog, he wants to go and see the dog and play with the dog, no matter where the dog is, you know.

If there's a human, he wants to follow them. If someone comes, if I'm walking him and someone comes out of their, out of their front door and starts getting their car ready for work, you know, we're putting stuff in. It's almost like he wants to either get into the car or go into their house.

He's, he's very, I don't know if it's that he doesn't really feel that he belongs anywhere. Or he's just very interested in everything. A lot.

I hope it's that I do. I hope it's just that he's intrigued and always interested. You know, he's, he is, his attention span is, is very, very limited most of the time, except when he's doing something that he's focusing on.

So if he's eating a bone, or if he's, because basically when we're walking, he gets a sniff of something and he hunts. I realized that recently, like he's hunting. That's what he was bred for.

Not, not now, not, not this time around, but that's, for a hundred years, or if not more, 200 years, I don't know, however long his breed, the Jack Russells, they've been bred to hunt. That's what they were bred for. So he's got those natural instincts to hunt.

And that's what he does. He picks up a scent of something. I think it's the cats, actually, the local cats.

And he's just looking, sniffing, and he follows the scent. I think sometimes it will pick up the scent of the dog, the dog downstairs. And he follows that scent as well.

But he picks up certain scents. I mean, I can't say it's the cat because I can't smell what he smells. And I can't, you know, I don't have access to that particular technology of a dog's nose.

But he's hunting, he's looking, he's like, oh, and he just, his nose is literally inches from the ground the whole time. But when he's just walking normally, he's like a little proud cockle, cock, cock, you know, like head up straight. He could almost be a show dog.

I mean, if he was trained, it possibly could be a show dog. He's a cute little thing. And, you know, if I trained him, if he I don't know if he's trainable, really.

He's very feisty little fella. Plus, I don't know, I don't think I've got the patience to really do all that stuff. You know, treating, you know, teach them to do tricks and stuff.

I don't know. But I don't know if I can really be bothered. I mean, that's just for entertainment for me, isn't it? Or for other people? It's not.

I just got to scratch my armpit. That's nice, isn't it? I literally am a monkey. I'm a monkey.

That was mine. When you hit if you ever hear this, it is just my top. Okay, just so you know that.

And usually, it's my top. I tell you what I do like to do if I'm on the phone with someone, especially if I don't know them. And it's like a job interview on the phone or something like that.

I'll say well, thanks. And just before the end, I'll flush the toilet. Even if I'm not in there, I'll walk in and I'll flush the toilet just so they do think that I've been on the toilet the whole time.

It's things like that amuse me. I don't know why. It's almost like I'm a bit of a child.

A bit of a child. Almost. See, yeah.

What things have been going on? So I'm going to be doing I'm still Oh, yeah, I was going to tell you about the YouTube channel. So now everyone's excited about it. Oh, come on.

The internet's really going slow recently. I've now got 826 subscribers. So it's gone up by 31 in the last 28 days.

So it's I've had two extra today. So it's you know, it's roughly like one a day, I guess, isn't it? But it's all right. It's I think with YouTube, it's a slow burner.

You know, I've got a mixture of people that have been, you know, used to watch me on YouTube years and years ago. And so they've kind of come back. They come back into my life.

And those that may be from the podcast have thought, well, let's just check out the YouTube channel and subscribe to his YouTube channel just to help him out. You know, three people have done that. And then there's, I guess, people that are discovering me for the first time.

So yeah, it's I do still need to put my attention into the podcasts. But then it's the podcast I'm uploading onto YouTube. So I'm recording them, and then I'm uploading them.

But I'm converting them into a video with like graphics and music, background music different from the one background music that I have on the podcast. That's another thing I'm going to be doing. I'm going to be experimenting with some different music for my podcast.

So that that's another thing I'm going to be doing. But not right now. But in the future and coming months, there's a lot of changes.

Hopefully, there'll be a positive change. And yeah, got a few few ideas, few ideas. I've got Adobe, the Adobe suite.

So I've got all the things that come with Adobe for the next year. So I pay that monthly, it's like 52 pound a month or something. So I've got that for the next year.

And it's a year contract. So I'm kind of stuck with it. But it's fine.

I'm going to be using it to make the videos and I'm using it to my stomach's going weird. I must be hungry. I'm going to be using it also to edit the audio and to produce things.

I'm just easing my way into it. If you know I mean, I'm quite a few things I need to do. I need I need to learn to learn how to use those things.

I mean, the last the last recording I did the last Let Me Bore You To Sleep, I used my 3DO microphone. This time I've gone back to my normal microphone. Now the weird thing about it is for some reason, the other microphone, only one of the ears was loud and the other ear was less.

And I don't understand why. I don't understand why. However, I did get another recording studio thing specifically for the ears.

So I need to figure out how to use that and get that set up. So they're both separate. So it's all ready and to use it.

You know, I can just use the ears, the ear microphones when I do the whisper stuff and use this microphone when I do the other stuff like just a normal hypnosis or the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, the boring objects, sleepy boring objects podcast. I haven't made one for quite a while on that one. I need to have a little look back on that.

Yeah, I wonder why that is. Does anyone know? Do you know why? Do you know why? When's the last time I did one of them? Sleepy boring objects. Blimey, September the 30th was the last time I did one of them.

October, November, December, January. Blimey, that's over three months. I had to count that on my fingers.

Don't judge me. So yeah. And I've done 31 of those.

I wonder why I stopped doing them. I haven't stopped doing them, but I just haven't done them for a while. I guess, I mean, the podcast itself doesn't really get, I mean, the last one I did 77 downloads, but that was on that podcast.

Funny enough, it's still getting, it's still getting downloads even this week, even though it's three months old. But I need to be a bit more, a bit more, my stomach's gurgling like anything. I need to be a bit more productive on that one.

Now you might say, but Jojo, what's the sleepy boring objects? What is that? Well, I do also release it on our podcast. So it's got a lot more listens than Sebastian. It's a lot more than one listen, Sebastian.

And, you know, years ago, I had someone like Sebastian. I know he's kind of messing around and that. But I remember saying to this bloke, and he was like a website expert.

And I was talking about my website. I'm going back 2008, probably 2008. And he really dismissed what I was saying, because I was quite excited at the time, maybe 2009.

Because I remember the website, I was, I was, and I had it connected to Google, so I could see the stats. And I had people from all over the world visiting my website. And I remember saying to him, you know, because, you know, it's something we both had an interest in, not my website, but like, you know, making websites.

And he dismissed my stats completely. I said I was getting wasn't a huge amount, but I was just getting an increase in amount, you know, every week. So I was quite pleased with how it's going.

And he said, Oh, it's just bots. That's just bots scouring the internet. And they're just coming onto your website.

Almost like, well, you're not getting any real human visitors. It's just mainly just these bots that are checking around the internet, just to see what's going on. And you know, though, well, and they there are bots, what it is.

They used to be I don't know about now. But there were bots. And you know, it's true.

Not every single visitor was a human being. Okay, I know, I know that. I knew that anyway.

But to dismiss it like that. And I think someone said that recently about the my downloads. Well, well, it's just, it's not real downloads.

It's not real. It's not real traffic. It's not real people.

It's just bots. Or? Well, no. I actually know exactly how many I get.

There's an with podcasting. There's an official whole thing connected to it. I don't know where it is.

Let me have a look help and support. I can read it to you. So they they go speak a share and you'll do how to create how to stats and analysis.

Okay. Right. How we collect and process data.

This is Spreaker. This article provide will provide you with detailed information about insights on how Spreaker measures listeners data. More specifically, it provides information on how this data is processed in order to better represent actual user behavior and avoid fraudulent and fake traffic.

So how listeners consume speaker content, right? On the platform content is consumed through speaker made applications, Spreaker made at the website or mobile apps on the Spreaker itself. Off platform is when content is consumed through third party clients listing apps, such as iTunes or Apple podcasts. Spotify, you know, all the big ones, all of them, I'm on every all of them pretty much.

So definitions download, a download is counted in response to a user initiated action that starts the audio playback of a specific media file. Subsequent actions made by the user, same user on the same media file, i.e. play, stop, play, signal, seek, etc, are not counted if they fall into a specific time window, in which case they're considered as part of the same play. So also a download is counted in response to an application initiated HTTP GET request for media file hosted on Spreaker.

In order to avoid double or even multiple countings for download data, raw CDN locks are filtered so that only a single request for a specific media file coming from a unique IP and client is counted within a specific time window within a single day. So basically, if the same person keeps asking for the same file, it's not counted, it's only counted if one person, so someone clicks on it 10 times, they only get one is counted by unique. They say IP, every every laptop's got or everything's got an IP address, you know, which we use online.

So they can tell they're not got your information, but they can tell if it's a unique one, or if it's someone that's revisiting. It's you know, if it's a new customer or whatever, each download action that happens before the time window has elapsed is not counted. And the time window started, port resets, the current time window is one day.

Ah, each download action, so it's basically the whole day. So if you listen to the same thing twice, it doesn't count. I don't know, I'm a little bit confused.

On platform downloads, all the listening activity that happens on Spreaker applications, the website, the mobile apps, Spreaker embedded players. So if you listened on my website, for example, off platform downloads, when a third party listens, as I said earlier, like Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, etc. requests content from Spreaker's servers, usually referenced media links contained inside the RSS feed.

All that Spreaker sees from its end is HTTP GET requests, which includes info such as source IP address and a set of headers. Among this info, the user agent helps identify the originating application and OS. So in this case, Spreaker has no definitive information about the media that was or was not subsequently listened to by the user.

And the raw number of HTTP GET requests of media files is not a reliable indication of the number of downloads because some clients, in this case, some clients make multiple GET requests for the same file. As they try to minimize the data transfer for a connection, some sources of downloads are considered illegitimate, for example, download bots, and are filtered from the count. Okay, so they, they cut that stuff out.

Before reporting this data to listeners, Spreaker applies a number of filtered mechanisms to avoid multiple tracking and ensures accurate counting. Ah, so some platforms example SoundCloud, Google Play, create a copy of the media file to be served or hosted to the user base. This means that Spreaker cannot get any information on their downloads on their downloads because the client requests do not hit the Spreaker CDN.

Ah, if these platforms support a report API, then plays are counted. Otherwise, there's no information about this media getting accessed on Spreaker's dashboard. So my stats are actually higher or everyone's stats are higher than what Spreaker gives because some platforms don't release the stats because they literally download the file and then share the file with other people.

So instead of just it downloading from Spreaker, it downloads from the actual player. So they download it once, but they might have 1000s of listens. That's my understanding of that.

I don't think it may be wrong. It might be wrong. Download counts, a download is counted at one of the following happens, a user clicks on the play button for a media file on one of Spreaker's apps.

A media file starts autoplaying. That would happen if, for example, if you go on to my website, I think I've got them on autoplay. So if you go on to the player, and it will just play each one after another.

Now, admittedly, my most popular podcasts are the 10 hour ones. So there's not going to be a lot played in a day on autoplay. A user completes an action which results in a media file playing.

Example clicks to a position in the waveform and the media starts playing. A HTTP GET request for file is detected and the same file or portion of same file blah, blah, blah. And has not been requested by the same user client application during the time window, which is a day.

So if you listen to more, yeah, people listen twice. That's not fair. So someone listens to my things more than three times not counting the three downloads.

Yeah, multiple requests for the same media file originating from the same client application might also get filled if they exceed the maximum hourly and daily thresholds for such traffic. This is to avoid fake traffic generators and other bots. Now I'll be honest, I have used bots to a long, long, long time ago, when I was on Myspace.

So we're talking 2008 2007. Yeah, 2006, something like that. So when I was on Myspace, I there was a bot and you could buy subscribers.

People and just it would I don't know, it's like add subscribers on so I did. And it was just a normal thing, I think. But that's all I did.

I've never tried it. There was other bots that did it on Facebook. And but if I ever bothered with Facebook, but I did it definitely did it with Myspace.

I paid a few quid to have extra subscribers. Because, you know, bearing in mind, this is the beginning of social networking. I didn't really know what it was all about.

And having a bunch of fake, not fake, but well, there was quite a few fake ones. But having friends on there that didn't even know who he was. It didn't seem like the pointlessness of it didn't seem relevant at the time.

I mean, the whole point of getting people to subscribe, there's no point having, for example, I can have a million subscribers on my YouTube channel, but it means nothing if I've only got 40 people actually watching the videos. This will look good. And to be fair, if I had a million subscribers, YouTube would promote my videos.

So that more people would organically watch them, because it would be presented to people. And so yeah, so it would be worth it. But I mean, there used to be bots that you could get, they used to be able to pay to get YouTube subscribers, used to be able to get Facebook subscribers, used to be able to get, if I remember rightly, I can't remember the name of this website.

And they might still be around, I wouldn't, I wouldn't use that stuff, because the likelihood is you'll get shut down, you get you lose your, your Twitter account, or your Facebook account or whatever. But there used to be a way where you could just basically buy 100,000 to 500,000 friends on Facebook, or Twitter, or any other social network sites that are now gone, because there was loads around at one time. I used to be on all of them.

All of them, Friendster, is it Friendster? Yeah, I used to be on every single one of them. Now, I'll be honest, I don't make use of them, I should start to get back on there. I haven't really been on Facebook much at all, or Twitter.

I need to start sharing my stuff. I mean, on Instagram, I've got, you know, when I share stuff, people watch it and people like what I do on there. But I rarely go on to Instagram.

And the other thing, what's it called? Oh, the kiddie thing. It's not kids now, is it? It's pretty much anyone use it. But it was for like little kids to start with.

You know, little videos, TikTok. It was originally for little kids, wasn't it? That's what it was like, young, probably 10 year olds, nine, 10 year olds. And then the younger adults took over, you know, so you had the 17, 18 year olds kind of took over.

Now you got people of all ages using it. So I'm guessing TikTok is happy about that, because they just want as many people on there as possible. But I kind of felt a little bit sorry, you know, on Facebook, Facebook, like Myspace to start with.

Myspace was a place for musicians. And then it became so popular that everybody was on there. Millions upon millions of people on there.

Then Facebook came along. And it was mainly younger people. It was aimed at students, wasn't it? That's what it was for, for students.

Initially, that was exactly what it was for. And and it was aimed really at students and young people, younger, you know, like under 20, maybe early 20s. And then before you knew it, you know, young people on there.

And then before they knew it, their parents were on there. Now the grandparents were on there. And the parents were probably checking up on them, friending them and like, you go on and see what they're up to and stuff.

And I think a lot of people didn't like it anymore, because they wanted to have their own space, almost. Like Myspace. I noticed that a few times over the years, people were complaining, like, I had to block my mum, because she keeps coming onto my Facebook page and seeing what I'm doing.

And I understand why someone would want to do that. If you've got a kid, you want to sort of see what they're up to. I do, I do get that a little bit.

I don't 100% get it, because I'm not a father. But I do kind of see why someone would want to. But yeah, it kind of spoiled it, I think, for the young people.

And then people like me, again, came on there, promoting my wares, my hypnosis stuff. Got a lot of people used to contact me saying, you're, you're just, you're selling skin oils. You skin oil, skin, skin oil salesman or whatever.

No, skin oil, snake oil, snake oil salesman. And I'd go back and say, because I used to go onto the groups and, you know, on the groups on Facebook, and I like chronic pain groups or anything like that. And I'd post a video, or I'd just say, look, if you want podcast or something like that on there.

And I get so much hate from people, hate, charlatan, snake oil salesman, whatever. It's like, I'm not a salesman. I'm not selling anything.

This is free. It's free. I'm not benefiting.

I'm trying to help people. I'm not selling anything at all. And I, there was a point where I used to get a bit upset sometimes.

And then I just, I stopped, I stopped with the, with the groups. Which is a shame because my very first, it wasn't viral. It was viral to me.

I don't mean it was infected. It was a video. It's the one, it's still my most popular video.

The hypnosis, try and stay awake hypnosis challenge. And I made it on video. I made it on YouTube and posted it.

And I shared it on every single group I was a member of on Facebook, knowing that I was going to get a backlash. But because I hadn't posted anything for ages on there, I thought, ah, stuff it, I'll just do it. So I went on to every single Facebook page that I was a member of, including ones that were just open, because a lot of them private, some were just open so anyone could post stuff.

And the weird thing about it is, you know, when I say viral, I mean, for me, it didn't have millions of views, but it went from, you know, the next day I had thousands of views on there. Well, actually I think it was within like a few hours, I had thousands of views. The next day I had some like 10,000 views.

I'd never had a video grow so quickly ever. And that was the turning point really for my channel, my YouTube channel. But in the meantime, I got so much, so many messages from people telling me, you're banned from this group now.

We don't want stuff like that posted on here. You snake oil salesman. I love that term for some reason.

And yeah, I got barred from a lot of the groups. Now I wasn't constantly posting stuff. I just posted this one video, first thing I'd posted in absolute months and months and months.

And it did the job. It reached a lot of people, probably hundreds of thousands of people, I guess. However, you know, I've set a few people as well.

So I just, from then on, I kind of abandoned the whole group, Facebook groups, because even though some people liked, put a like and say, thank you for posting this and we wouldn't have known otherwise and whatever. The amount of people that it was, it was almost like I was invading their sacred space, sacred space. And maybe I was, I didn't, didn't feel like I was, it wasn't my intention.

I was coughing. Wasn't, wasn't my, wasn't what I was aiming to do. However, you know, the result is the result, isn't it? If it upset people, then it did.

So yeah, I kind of, I kept on Facebook and I've kept uploading, you know, over the years. I mean, I remember back in 2000 and 2011, I had this receptionist job. I was also a counsellor as well.

So I had this part-time receptionist job. And I remember every time, every day I'd get in, get on the computer, and I would share my latest video onto Twitter, onto Facebook, the various Facebook groups, Facebook, yeah, groups I've got and stuff and pages or whatever. And that used to be my routine, used to be, so I'd spend, you know, 10 minutes doing that every morning, check the stats, you know, just that kind of stuff, check any messages.

And yeah, because I'd make a video before going to work, or maybe I'd make one the night before, upload it quite often on my phone. So I'd, at that time, I had an ensuite bathroom with a room that I was renting. So I used to film quite a few of my videos in the bathroom.

A bit echoey, to be honest. But yes, I was doing like regular daily 10 minute recordings, 10 minute videos. And I just upload it.

So there's there's no introduction, there's no graphics, there's no titles on the video is literally just me talking. Not great quality. But it was like, I've got people watching.

I don't know what happened to those videos. I've got some of them, some of them are somewhere. But they've all kind of been taken off of the internet.

Pretty much. There's a few floating around. There is a few floating around.

And I sometimes think, you know, should I just make videos of me just looking into the camera? And do the podcast. I did a few recently. Again, I took them back off YouTube.

So there's a couple still on there. But I feel a bit more comfortable just talking into the microphone. And maybe I got my iPad so I can look at stuff and check.

You know, if I say something, I think, is that true or not? And I can double check it. Yeah, I'm not looking into a lens while I'm talking. Okay, back to the stats thing.

Measurement methodology, uniqueness algorithm. It says here by relying on the user account information when available, Spruik is able to easily identify the unique downloads of its media files. When user account information is not available, Spruik uses a proprietary algorithm involving cookies, the IP address, the user agent and other factors to aggregate multiple requests into a single unique download request.

This algorithm is constantly evolving as the industry involves evolves. Oftentimes, while Spruik's algorithm aims to capture the activity of unique people, it is limited to interpreting the actions of unique clients. I'm not sure what that means.

When multiple people share the same computer or device, and all listen to the same media files, this unique download metric will understate the number of unique listeners who access the episode. Yeah, so that makes sense. So if someone, I guess she if you listen on your iPad, and then someone else listens to everything that won't count as a stats, because you're just so if we can't, I don't know.

Maybe I didn't understand that, that I do kind of understand it, but I can't explain it. Luckily, the proliferation of personal handheld devices has significantly reduced likelihood and frequency of these scenarios. So yeah, basically 90 the majority percent of people listening to podcasts and also watching YouTube or on mobile phones now.

Now I watch YouTube on television. But for me, it's a much better experience. But I do listen to podcasts on the phone.

I listen to the radio on TV and on the phone. I listen to audible audiobooks on the phone. So I do I do use the phone for that.

You know, generally. So I can understand it's the ease of use. I suppose really, GPS or geologic geolocation and g geocoding user geolocation comes from the use of GPS or other location information when available.

IP address geocoding lookup. If addresses are assigned by internet service providers, IP addresses are assigned by internet service providers. For some ISPs, IP addresses don't relate to the actual location of the end user.

Though this is becoming less of a problem with the growing prevalence of always on high speed internet connections, and a mapping of user devices with GPS data. Okay, so this sources information sources are identified in various ways. Spreaker apps, these are directly counted with speakers infrastructure, embedded player, these downloads are reported as coming from the host domain where the player is embedded.

API reports downloads directly counted and other download sources, the originating app device devices are identified by relying on information such as the user agent, or the referrer field of the HTTP request. So basically, it's quite a complicated process, but quite from the sounds of it very thorough, very thorough process. And was it how to get the most accurate stats from your podcast for your product, not sometimes most accurate stats, please follow them.

No preloading, preloading is a technique where an audio player automatically starts downloading the auto content, audio content, or chunk of it without any user interaction. When a podcast is listening to a speaker, on a speaker property, website, embedded player, etc. app, the media is not automatically preloaded in accordance with the IAB specifications.

So I wouldn't know how, how I'm not in control of that I might, in case you're going to create your own customized player for a podcast, hosted on speaker, you must avoid preloading to ensure compliance. Okay, so that's something that I would do myself on my website. And I don't know how to do that.

So it's not going to happen. No autoplay. autoplay is when media starts playing automatically when the page loads.

This is often perceived as a bad user experience, mostly because the user is not expecting to hear audio. So that that's not good. I don't do that.

And because that's happened to me too many times, especially at work. You know, when you secretly doing something you don't want anyone else to know you're doing it. So you know, I've been I forgot to put the headphones into or I'm on the internet.

So while ago, but but then suddenly it's blaring out wherever the advert is blaring out. So, you know, I think it's good to have the volume down. Anyway, but I like to be able to press the play button rather than just have it automatically play.

I mean, in the old days, I think I used to have autoplay on my podcast episodes on my websites, you know, like a decade ago, it would be autoplay. And then I just realized, yeah, this isn't a very good experience. It's nice to be able to just press play when you're ready, rather than just automatically play.

But going back, you know, 1415 years, they did just automatically start playing. You know, the you'd have to press pause to stop it. So that's how things used to be anyway.

And for a full download, ask for the entire file in one go. Well, for progressive download, ask the file in slices. Okay, so this is all technical stuff for people that build websites to embed the the player.

So yeah, that doesn't doesn't really apply. So we got the one of that. So I don't have any campaigns.

Well, I don't have any keep your numbers under control start from the download statistics, introducing you all in one place to keep all your statistics under control, you can access a comprehensive set of data, click on the statistics section of the CMS. On the first page under organization statistics, you'll have 30 days overview. So that's what I get.

So I have if I look at the statistics for and if I click on statistics, what I get is there's downloads, then there's Yeah, so last 30 days download 364,850. And it says up 38% from previous 30 days, which is cool. And then there's a few other bits and bobs.

So but that's, it just basically gives me how many for each day. So it starts on the 11th of December until today, which is the the ninth of January. So yeah, I do have the option if I click on see more, not see more, but see more.

It takes me to the overall statistics page. So it's got Jason Newland, free hypnosis, and total downloads 11,869,942. 40 total live plays.

So it gives me the 30 days last 30 days. And it gives me the option to look at yesterday. Oh, my troubles seem so far away.

Sorry, couldn't help it. So I had 14,962 downloads yesterday. And then it gives me the option of the last seven days.

So there's 100,021 in the last seven days. And then the option next one is last 30 days, which I've already done current week. And that's for yesterday and today.

So 23,599. So I've got a just over eight and a half thousand today so far. It's quite a slow day, actually.

And then I've got last week. So it's 103,137 current month. So this month so far 126,736 not bad for you know, less than nine days.

Last month, 313,159. The last 12 months, 4,868,770. So that's yeah, the last 12 months.

So the weird thing about it is, although it's last 12 months, if I actually put in the year, 2020, well, 22, blimey, January to December, it was actually 4,962,027. So just under 5 million. So that's all right now.

So just it gives you an idea of how it works. So keep going back and going to click on see more. And you can actually put in a rough date.

So if you want to put in I don't know. So if you want to find out the month of November 2021. So I can go back November 2021.

So I had 825,189 on that month. I think that was the best month I've ever had. I think I had a lot of really big days, like yeah, one day at 37,000 nearly 38,000 downloads in a day.

So I don't think I've had another busier month than that ever. Unless December was 849,689. One day there, blimey, 12th of December 2021 50,638 downloads.

Blimey. And the next day 49,606. So yeah, I had some good days on that month.

849,000 to be fair, I think during, you know, 2020, 2021, that period where the world was a bit weird. I think I just had more people listening. Then afterwards, I'm not still it's still growing, you know, overall.

But, you know, the last 12 months, I had like February last, last February was the best month of the year. By quite a lot. I'm not quite sure why.

Yeah. 681,000. But the rest of the year, it kind of steady and a good amount like evened out 300 plus thousand a month, which is nice.

You do realize you're still talking about statistics. So we don't hear about statistics. Did you did you do you realize that? Yes, I do apologize, kind of.

And according to this, the last 12 months or last year, 50.88% have been from the United States. Now, what's unusual about that is always used to be higher. But gradually, I'm getting around other countries.

So United Kingdom is 20.68%. Then Australia is 8.95%. Canada, 6.48%. Ireland 1.61%. South Africa 1.1%. 1.10%. New Zealand 0.81%. Then you're Sweden, Norway, Germany, India, Netherlands, Philippines, France, Spain, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Japan, Belgium, Singapore, Denmark, Italy, Thailand. And then 3.27% are from other countries. So that's 159,000 downloads from other countries.

Thailand 7,147. So we're at 7,000 downloads in Thailand. So I don't know who's listening to me in Thailand.

And United Arab Emirates, Emirates, nearly 14,000 downloads last year from there. Norway, nearly 30,000 downloads. Germany, that's Sebastian.

He's listened to me over 24,000 times last year. South Africa, 53, nearly 54,000. New Zealand, nearly 40,000.

Sweden, nearly 38,000. Canada, 315,500. Australia, 436,000.

United Kingdom, 1,006,869. And United States, 2,477,021. So that's the others.

I've not read all of the different stats. But Iceland, nearly 14,000. Japan, nearly 13,500 downloads.

Belgium, nearly 13,000. Singapore, over 10,000. Denmark, 9,000.

Italy, 9,000 or 8,500. So yeah, blimey. France, 15,800.

Netherlands, 21,500. Philippines, 17,000. India, 24,000.

I've got no one in China. No one from China listens. Why doesn't anyone from China listen to me? I love Chinese people.

Come on, China. Listen to, listen to, listen to Daddy. Listen to JJ.

Come on. And Russia. Why Russia? Why is Russia not listening? Come on, my Russian friends.

I love Russian people. I know it's probably not a popular thing to say, but every Russian person I ever met, lovely, absolutely, absolutely lovely people. But I felt I was quite lucky when I was in London.

I met a lot of, well, a lot of people from all over the world, all over. But the, I worked quite closely with a lot of African people. But near the end of my time in London, I was working with Eastern European people, people from Croatia, various different places around that area, but also Poland, a lot of Polish people.

I even learned some of the language because they were teaching me. So the, a lot of Polish would, they'd be working in the kitchen, maybe cleaning and be doing those kinds of jobs that I've also used to do myself. So I'm not, not knocking the jobs.

I used to do cleaning. I've worked in kitchens. And when they'd finish, they'd all be drinking vodka and they'd invite me to go and drink with them.

I'd almost be like one of their gang because I'd see them during the day and then see them in the evening. So I was around quite a lot and they just, I don't know, just like me. I'd get on, got on well with them and I'd learn some of their language.

And also I'd help them out in the kitchen. Like if the, if the washing up was getting too backtracked, you know, like dirty dishes, I helped with that stuff. I don't care.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty. And there was a couple, I don't know, there was this, this, oh, she was so lovely. I really liked her.

She, she was a new waitress. So I'm talking to her and I'm chatting, I'll be honest, I was chatting her up. I was not chatting her up in a weird way, but just like, oh, hello.

And just introducing myself. And, and one of the other staff started laughing. And I said, why are you laughing? He said, uh, you see the bloke over there standing right behind her doing the washing up.

He said, that's her husband. Oh, cause I think I was saying, oh, you're from Russia. Oh, I'd love to go to Russia.

Yeah. And so, you know, I was just, but I guess the members, the other members of staff thought I was chatting her up. I don't know.

Anyway, it turned out I got on really well with both of them. I really got on well with both of them. And we went to a party together and she was lovely.

She got pregnant while she was here. He was, I feel like a professor of psychology. And he just came over here cause they wanted to have a holiday and I had to book it and get permission and stuff.

I don't know what her occupation was, but he was a proper, I think he was like a professor of psychology or psychiatry. And he was way too, he was a washer upper. That's what his job was in the club.

And then, you know, it's like, wow. And he said, it doesn't matter. It's nice.

Nice to do something that doesn't involve my brain. Not having to sort of think, cause you know, being a professor of psychology or psychiatry, very, very head based, isn't it? Thinking and stuff. And he said he enjoyed the physical manual labour.

So, wow. And they were just on holiday. They stayed here for like six months or something.

And there was one point I realised how comfortable he was feeling with me. Because we were talking during the disco. He started talking in Russian to me.

Like he started talking like, he also felt so comfortable that he forgot I was, I was a foreigner. And we both laughed. I thought, oh, that's nice.

Because you don't really forget, generally do you? If you're in another country, you remember that you're, especially a country like England, we don't learn other people's languages. It's against the law. So, the fact that he just started talking to me in Russian, it was like, oh.

But yeah, I'd like to go there one day. My dad went to Russia. He's, it's weird, he actually had a chest infection.

And he ended up in hospital. So, not laughing, I'm saying this like, he, it was almost equivalent of me when I went abroad and I had a chest infection. I didn't end up in hospital, but I was in bed for about 10 days.

So, that was not the best holiday ever. Anyway, bloody blah, blah. So, please, if you're out there, if you're from Russia or China, I just basically want the two biggest countries in the world, or India, India as well.

India and China. Listen, everyone listen to my podcast, if you're from India or China, spread the word. Can you imagine, I'm going to start getting millions of views every day.

Brilliant. I will, I'll make specific, I'll even take requests on what to talk about. I am nothing but hospitable.

So, I'm going to go. Thank you very much for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself, because you deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.