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Is There a Correlation Between iTunes Reviews and Podcast Downloads?

September 23, 2012 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
7,000 downloads per episode

Nerdist
“Nerdist now gets 200,000 downloads per episode.”

Sound of Trance
“Roughly 120,000+ downloads per episode.”

Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe
“We are at about 110k downloads per episode. We get 7-8k listeners on XM.”

Mac Power Users
“The Mac Power Users enjoys a large audience regularly exceeding 100,000 downloads per episode and many shows receive downloads in multiples of that.”

MuggleCast
“MuggleCast continues to maintain a listenerbase of over 50,000 downloads per episode.”

Escape Pod
“Escape Pod averages 27,000 downloads per episode.”

Pseudopod
“Horror podcast Pseudopod averages 15,000 [downloads per episode].”

Pseudopod
“Fantasy podcast PodCastle averages 12,000 [downloads per episode].”

Writing Excuses
“This podcast is popular and garners over 10,000 downloads per episode.”

Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
“The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast … regularly gets about 4,000 downloads per episode.”

SFF Audio
“For regular episodes though we seem to get about 1,400 downloads per before I can’t track them anymore.”

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David Barr Kirtley is an author and the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he’s interviewed well over a hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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