The Lifetime totals report provides the total accumulated listening sessions for all content under an account for all time.
Accessing the lifetime totals
To open the Lifetime totals report, go to the "Account" page of the publisher dashboard, and use the "Lifetime totals" button in the top panel.
It can also be reached directly from the analytics portal by switching to it on the navigation menu.
Report contents
💡 This report contains accumulated totals only and cannot be filtered or segmented to a time period as for normal analytics reports.
Panel / Account totals
The default panel, shows the key counters for the entire account and the "Top 20" episodes and channels.
Note: The "CSV Download" functionality for these two tables are also limited to 20 items.
Panel / Channel totals
Displays a list of channels and their aggregated lifetime sessions.
The "CSV Download" functionality for this table is limited to 500 items.
Panel / Episode totals
Displays a list of episodes and their lifetime sessions.
The "CSV Download" functionality for this table is limited to 500 items.
How "Lifetime sessions" are update
The counters displayed in this report for "Lifetime sessions" are updated continually by our platform as valid listening sessions are tracked by our analytics backend.
Only valid sessions (minimum 1 minute listening and other analytics rules applied) will increment this counter.
When is the data updated?
These counters are not updated in real-time. They are incremented by our analytics processing backend, which may occassionally lag may behind real-time.
The value of these counters may also exceed what is visible in the analytics dashboard as analytics reports are frequently cache for up to an hour. Analytics reports will eventually catch up to the session counter value displayed.
Is this the same as the "Listen" label on web pages
Publishers can see the number of "Listens" for each object when logged into our platform as admins. This is the same as the "Lifetime sessions" counter displayed in the Access totals report.
This provides an easy way to find out the total session count for a specific episode, stream or channel.
Notice for older content
For content published prior to 1 September 2021, this counter have been incremented by our old analytics platform. We have adjusted the counter values older than this date to be more in line with the new analytics measurements, but this is only an approximate adjustment. Unfortunately there is no way to be more accurate, but this should help establish a fair baseline when comparing older and newer content on their lifestime session counter.