what was the reason, Leo? i had some weird stuff going on with macbreak (video) it keeps redownloading old episodes over and over, but i haven't noticed anything like this with TWIT productions :)
Oh man!, it is the adoring fans downloading multiple copies of everything you do!
Seriously though, I suspect this is a problem because of the need to have accurate numbers for your advertisers? Believe me, since this is the week the CompUSA store in Omaha, NE has closed for good (where I worked as an Apple Tech for 8 years), I am kind of sensitive to ones bottom line:)
Podtrac, my ad rep, corrects for the download spikes by only counting unique downloads - which makes for much lower numbers, but they're much much more consistent.
Podtrac seems to think something about how iTunes downloads changed with v7.1.
Yeah, you'd think that with ad revenues being involved, firms like Podtrac are going to be extra specially sure that the numbers are accurate. This is the first I've heard of iTunes causing some anomaly though. Perhaps Steve Jobs sneezed sometime in March...
I've experienced problems in the last couple of weeks with iTunes 7.1 Podcasts download fine, but when I go to transfer them over to my iPod several days later, iTunes can no longer find the file and I have to download it again (sometimes through iTunes and sometimes I have to do it manually from the TWiT site). This is on Vista. Anyone else experienced something like this?
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I'm sure your great podcasts already create big spikes anyway :P
2 years, 7 months ago by tcharper
what was the reason, Leo? i had some weird stuff going on with macbreak (video) it keeps redownloading old episodes over and over, but i haven't noticed anything like this with TWIT productions :)
2 years, 7 months ago by dziadzie
I get re-downloading from some sites regularly from iTunes. I always thought it was the sites fault, but perhaps it is iTunes fault.
2 years, 7 months ago by EnglishOak
I've seen this too, but not specific to the TWiT netcasts. If I could only get my videos to play smoother in iTunes. Thanks for VLC.
2 years, 7 months ago by krank
Oh man!, it is the adoring fans downloading multiple copies of everything you do! Seriously though, I suspect this is a problem because of the need to have accurate numbers for your advertisers? Believe me, since this is the week the CompUSA store in Omaha, NE has closed for good (where I worked as an Apple Tech for 8 years), I am kind of sensitive to ones bottom line:)
2 years, 7 months ago by maximmuir
LOL, yeah, i have 14 copies of itunes set up to keep subscribing to all twit podcasts every 30 seconds :)
2 years, 7 months ago by dziadzie
My podcasts is reporting higher numbers as well. My wife downloaded it twice via iTunes, no fault of her own.
2 years, 7 months ago by krisguy
iTunes can't be the problem. It's an Apple product!
2 years, 7 months ago by Ozzy
Damn... and I just thought I was on my game in March.
2 years, 7 months ago by mchandler
Podtrac, my ad rep, corrects for the download spikes by only counting unique downloads - which makes for much lower numbers, but they're much much more consistent.
Podtrac seems to think something about how iTunes downloads changed with v7.1.
2 years, 7 months ago by ChiefTWiT
Yeah, you'd think that with ad revenues being involved, firms like Podtrac are going to be extra specially sure that the numbers are accurate. This is the first I've heard of iTunes causing some anomaly though. Perhaps Steve Jobs sneezed sometime in March...
2 years, 7 months ago by randyhall
I've experienced problems in the last couple of weeks with iTunes 7.1 Podcasts download fine, but when I go to transfer them over to my iPod several days later, iTunes can no longer find the file and I have to download it again (sometimes through iTunes and sometimes I have to do it manually from the TWiT site). This is on Vista. Anyone else experienced something like this?
2 years, 7 months ago by smperris