{"id":269,"date":"2006-08-15T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-08-15T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:58:24","slug":"is-a-view-the-same-as-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Is a view the same as a hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban is pretty much right on the money <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/entry\/1234000020073839\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<p>Today though, with all the excitement about rich media, whether its video or audio, you hear and read all about<br \/>\nviews and listens.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to the question: Just what is a view or listen ?<\/p>\n<p>For podcasts, is a listen a download ? I hope not, i have several podcasts in Itunes i subscribe to, and that<br \/>\ndownload every episode, but I havent listened to in a long while. A couple others I have listened to the first several<br \/>\nseconds or minutes of, but havent really dented. How would what i just did fit into the podcasts metrics ?<\/p>\n<p>In radio there is Time Spent Listening. There are quarter hours , where a radio station gets credit for someone<br \/>\nlistening for 15 minutes if they listen for 5 minutes. Are there standards for podcasts ?<\/p>\n<p>Then there are videso on the net. Just what exactly is a view ?&nbsp; Our HDNet Trailer for an upcoming<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j225ScpsNEs&amp;search=rodman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"blines3\" title=\"Link outside of this blog\">Dennis Rodman show has been viewed 2339<br \/>\ntimes<\/a>.&nbsp; I know i have gone to the site and it has started running at least 20 times that I didnt watch it all<br \/>\nthe way through. Are those counted ? I cant find anywhere on the Youtube.com site that defines how views are counted.<br \/>\nDid i miss it ?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban is pretty much right on the money here: Today though, with all the excitement about rich media, whether its video or audio, you hear and read all about views and listens. Which leads me to the question: Just what is a view or listen ? For podcasts, is a listen a download ? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}