How do you measure your live veiwers?

[Dahalabit]

I am considering broadcasting live ones a month and wanted to know how I can measure my viewership. anyway these companies will give out numbers?

[techzentv]

which company in particular? Ustream and Justin.TV have an API that will give you viewer counts. I think most of them have something similar.

[andrewzarian]

Ustream gives you real time metrics. Have yet to find a service that offers a better measuring tool. I dont know much about Justin.tv's API. Techzentv have you used it yet?

[techzentv]

I have not had a chance to actually use the API for Justin.tv. I am going to build another on-air light that works based on the stream status with the intention of it looking at Justin.tv. So I will be looking at the API in the next few weeks.

[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.