Spotify seems to download an episode once and then hosts the audio on their own infrastructure – probably for availability reasons.
But there’s help. They have statistics for podcasts here:
https://podcasters.spotify.com
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This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by
Dave Chimny.
That’s fascinating, the downloading-part! Do you have a link with more info?
And yes, then it makes perfect sense that SSP can’t include those numbers into its own stats. Pity, but so it goes.
I just guessed without trying it, yet. Making an audio file inaccessible could show if I’m right.
Did some googling. I like googling.
1: Spotify caches, yes
“Podbean’s statistics system cannot track Spotify plays, since they cache your content and redistribute it from their servers.”
https://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000014165-viewing-spotify-statistics-for-your-podcast
2: But there apparently is some magical api that gives statistics back (couldn’t find anything about it further though)
“They are also coming out with an API that will allow hosting companies to display Spotify-specific playback statistics.”
https://www.podcastinsights.com/submit-podcast-to-spotify/
Hi there. Yes that’s right that Spotify downloads the file once and then redistributes their copy of it to their listeners. So when it comes to things like SS Stats any spotify listens would all only show up as one single listen if you’ve submitted your SSP based feed to Spotify.
I’m not aware of a public facing API that would allow us to import Spotify analytics into the SS Stats dashboard though.
