Moving your podcast to PodOps? Great news!
You can import your existing podcast episodes from another host and keep your stats! PodOps allows you to seamlessly add your views, plays, and download counts from your previous hosting provider to your imported episodes. This way, you’ll have a complete picture of your podcast’s performance in one place.
Importing Podcast Stats: What to Expect
When you import your podcast to PodOps, you can bring over the total views, plays, and download counts for each episode from your previous host. This ensures you don’t lose track of your podcast’s performance history.
Here’s a heads-up:
While we allow you to add views, plays, and download totals, we can’t capture specific details like download date (if not provided by your host), listening app, or listener location
Since these numbers are manually entered, PodOps cannot certify them as IAB (V2) compliant. You’ll see a note about this in your PodOps Analytics footer
Overall, importing views, plays, and download counts gives you a better picture of your podcast’s historical performance within PodOps.
How to Add Stats to Imported Episodes
After importing your podcast (it can take a few minutes if you have a TON of episodes), visit your Profile in the upper right corner. Expand the Subscriptions dropdown and select Current Plans:
Here you will find the option to Add Stats. Imported podcasts are on a 30 day free plan by default. Use the upgrade button from this screen to select a paid plan and prevent any content from expiring.
Note: The Add Stats is only visible if you have imported your podcast from another host.
How to Manually Add Stats
Click Update Stats to open the pop-up
Select an episode from the list of imported podcast episodes
Populate the required fields and Save!
Repeat for each episode
Understand the Stats
Before you enter data, be sure you understand what you are entering. Your former hosting service may not provide all of these data points. This is why we only require downloads and a date. The minimum amount of data to update your Analytics Graph.
Views: The total number of episode page (web page) visits
Plays: The total number of episode plays
Downloads: The total number of episode downloads
Date: The original episode publish date (If your former host allows you to migrate this data with your feed, we will populate the date for you)
How to Import Stats in Bulk
If you prefer to import all of your podcast data at once, we have a tool for that! Click the Import Stats button to open the import pop up. In Step 1, you will find a Download Template that contains your podcast data. Download this file to enter any View, Play, and Download information you have. If your former host allowed you to migrate your episode publish date, this will also be included. If it’s not visible, enter dates as DD/MM/YYYY.
In the Excel Template, do not edit the Header Row, ID Numbers or Episode Titles. Enter any data you have, and skip what you don’t.
Once you’ve updated the Excel Template, return to the pop up in your account, and under Step 2, select the file and click Import. After a few moments, you’ll see your data.
If you need to edit or delete any uploaded or manually entered data points, you can use the Action buttons to do so. It’s that easy to bring your data to PodOps!
