GEO Distribution Pie provides podcasters an accurate measure of where the audience comes from.

Please note this feature is only available for business user.

Site Visitors, as it’s called, gives the number of visitors to your podcast site. To prevent any type of fake or redundant data, any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Subscribers Stats provides an approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It’s based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Requests from browsers or bots are filtered out to give you a more reliable results.

Episode Hits gives publishers a bird’s-eye view into the performance of each episode. It reflects the number of times episodes are played. Whereever the episodes are played in Podbean site, embed player or in iTunes, the play action will be counted in the “hits” number. Moreover, Podbean statistics system will automatically filter duplicated hits from the same IP address or identified spam hits. So the hits number can reliably reflect how hot your podcast is.

Podbean Podcast Geographic statistics are powered by Google Map and make it easy for you to see where your audience is coming from.

You can set up your Podcast Geographic Statistics by following these steps:

1) Log into your Podbean account.

2) Click ‘Statistics’ located in your dashboard menu situated at the top of the page, and then select ‘Geographic Statistics’ located in the sub-menu. Either write down or use the copy feature on your computer to record the ‘Site URL’ podbean have allocated to you for future reference (as shown below).

3) Follow the two-step instructions to set up your statistics. First click on www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html, which will take you to a separate Google site (as shown below). This will allow you to create your maps.

Paste the ‘Site URL’ that Podbean have allocated to you in the ‘My web site URL’ box (as shown below). Tick the ‘I have read and agree with the terms and conditions box, after you have read these, and then click on the ‘Generate API Key’ button to create your Google Map Key.

Copy and paste this Key in to the box provided on your Podbean page, and click ‘Submit’.

4) Your geographic Podcast stats will then be shown within 2 minutes.

5) Please make sure you correctly copy the Site URL when applying to the Google Map Key or you will find that your statistics do not work correctly.

Here is the peek on what you will get: