How do you measure your live veiwers?

[andrewzarian]

Very interested to see what you create.

[techzentv]

I have an RRDGraph working for Ustream and Justin.tv now. What other CDNs should I do? I have plans for bitgravity and Livestream yet.

[Podnutter]

an issue with live viewers is that companies cant really say for sure where and where those viewers are coming from. If companies like Ustream and Justin.tv started using a third party like podtrac it might make it better for ad companies to use the data

[andrewzarian]

@podnutter - I think it would be great if these streaming companies started to use the same third party service for stats, but it would highly be unlikely.

[TommySulivan]

is ustream the best live streaming service that offers statistics ?

[techzentv]

Justin.TV provides pretty good stats that are easily pulled via XML or JSON. But neither Ustream or Justin.TV provides much more information than current viewers and total views. I think I can get stats from Livestream and maybe Vaughn too. I do not have an account on Bitgravity but have contacted them about an API but have not heard back yet.

[cseeman]

It might be significant to mention which stats are important.
I look for Peak Views, Total Unique Views, Average viewing minutes.
I also look at how my live shows are being discovered. That can be referred links as well as embeds as well as what was discovered on Facebook or Twitter.