LibriVox monthly statistics

[TriciaG]

No, there isn't. It's just fun is all. Some people have a small, personal celebration when their car odometer hits milestones or a palindrome; we can have our little joys, too.

[TriciaG]

As near as I can figure, our 19000th cataloged project was https://librivox.org/my-life-in-christ-part-2-by-saint-john-of-kronstadt/

[msfry]

No, there isn't. It's just fun is all. Some people have a small, personal celebration when their car odometer hits milestones or a palindrome; we can have our little joys, too.

Ah! I had a party when my car was paid off. And when I retired. And when I turned 70. I guess there were some little joys in between and those are fun. In fact, I mentally celebrate little milestones every time I complete anything. And I love celebrating everyone's Libriversary.

[rredmond]

And I love celebrating everyone's Libriversary.

And I think I'm going to love celebrating just finding out about the Coffee Break Collections from your signature Michele! Nice!!

[TriciaG]

Oops! Here it's 9 PM Eastern Time, and we haven't updated the stats!

In February, LibriVox volunteers completed 103 projects (and 4 already for March), bringing us to 233 total projects for 2024.

Other stats:

Total number of projects 19755
Number of completed projects 19103
Number of completed non-English projects 2365
Total number of languages 100
Number of languages with a completed work 47
Number of completed solo projects 10117
Number of readers 13675
...who have completed something 13546

[BengtW]

YouTube statistics for January 2024:
Views: 645,353
View time: 385,229 hours
Likes: 10,727
Comments: 899
Total number of subscribers: 174,517

YouTube statistics for February 2024:
Views: 600,410
View time: 352,409 hours
Likes: 9,471
Comments: 754

Most listened to:
The History of London by Walter BESANT read by Ruth Golding 6,511 hours
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE 3,755 hours
Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne read by Roger Melin 3,535 hours
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy 3,454 hours
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. RUPPELT 3,349 hours
Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET read by Steven Seitel 2,721 hours
The Secret Garden (version 2) by Frances Hodgson BURNETT read by Karen Savage 2,685 hours
Anne of the Island (version 2) by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 2,380 hours
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay read by Various 2,247 hours
Short Science Fiction Collection 022 by VARIOUS read by Various 2,243 hours
In the North Woods of Maine by Elmer Erwin Thomas read by KevinS 2,070 hours
The Log of a Cowboy by Andy ADAMS read by Richard Kilmer 2,069 hours
Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs read by Mark Nelson 2,007 hours
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Bernal Díaz del CASTILLO 1,978 hours
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1,976 hours
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I by Edward GIBBON 1,904 hours
Persuasion (version 4) by Jane AUSTEN read by Karen Savage 1,881 hours
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE 1,844 hours
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 by James B. Gillett read by Various 1,790 hours
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 1,705 hours
The Kybalion by The Three INITIATES read by Algy Pug 1,605 hours
Life on the Mississippi by Mark TWAIN read by John Greenman 1,557 hours
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 by Lavinia Honeyman PORTER 1,538 hours
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich NIETZSCHE read by Jeffrey Church 1,427 hours
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DEFOE 1,379 hours
The Story of the Outlaw by Emerson Hough read by Various 1,361 hours
The Book Of Jasher by ANONYMOUS read by CJ Plogue 1,360 hours
The Oregon Trail by Francis PARKMAN, JR. read by R. S. Steinberg 1,339 hours

Traffic sources:
32.0% - YouTube homepage or subscription features
27.3% - YouTube search results
14.1% - Referred from a related video
7.1% - Others
6.5% - Link from other YouTube video
6.1% - Referred from a link on another website
5.9% - Video was being played as part of a playlist
1.0% - YouTube channel page
0.1% - Referred from an email or notification from YouTube
0.0% - Referred from Shorts sound pivot pages

Listeners location:
United States 61.6%
United Kingdom 9.7%
Canada 5.4%
Australia 2.7%
Spain 1.3%
Ireland 1.2%
Mexico 1.1%
New Zealand 0.9%
Germany 0.8%
Netherlands 0.7%
France 0.7%
South Africa 0.7%
India 0.7%
Sweden 0.5%
Italy 0.3%

Listeners device:
Mobile 62.5%
Desktop 14.9%
Tablet 11.8%
Tv 10.7%

Listeners gender:
Female: 39.8%
Male: 60.2%
Genderuserspecified: 0.0%

Listeners age:
13-17 years 1.5%
18-24 years 12.0%
25-34 years 14.4%
35-44 years 15.6%
45-54 years 15.6%
55-64 years 18.1%
65- years 22.9%

Total number of subscribers: 178,571

[TedL]

Regarding YouTube Stats for February:

Its really interesting to me that some of the most popular books on the YouTube channel are nonfiction books that were not recently published.

'History of London', 'Away in the Wilderness', 'Europe in the Middle Ages', 'In the North Woods of Main'. I did not find any of these titles among the 200 books in the Internet Archive LibriVox collection that are currently most popular there.

Any ideas on why they got so popular on YouTube?

[flavo5000]

I think there are some people that just stream them to listen to every night to go to sleep and leave them going all night kind of like a sound machine. Same with that Report on Unidentified Flying Objects book.

[TriciaG]

In March, LibriVox volunteers completed 120 projects, bringing us to 349 total projects for 2024.

Other stats:

Total number of projects 19875
Number of completed projects 19219
Number of completed non-English projects 2375
Total number of languages 101
Number of languages with a completed work 47
Number of completed solo projects 10187
Number of readers 13720
...who have completed something 13603

The new language is Palatine German, but it's debated whether that's really a new language that warrants its own language code, or just a dialect.

[HannaPonomarenko]

The new language is Palatine German, but it's debated whether that's really a new language that warrants its own language code, or just a dialect.

How interesting! Could you please share the link where debates occur?

[TriciaG]

In this case, it's in the admin-only area.

[BengtW]

YouTube statistics for February 2024:
Views: 600,410
View time: 352,409 hours
Likes: 9,471
Comments: 754
Total number of subscribers: 178,571

YouTube statistics for March 2024:
Views: 592,501
View time: 354,846 hours
Likes: 9,479
Comments: 791

Most listened to:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE 4,508 hours
The History of London by Walter BESANT read by Ruth Golding 4,318 hours
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy 3,678 hours
Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne read by Roger Melin 3,671 hours
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. RUPPELT 3,543 hours
The Secret Garden (version 2) by Frances Hodgson BURNETT read by Karen Savage 2,929 hours
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Bernal Díaz del CASTILLO 2,820 hours
Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET read by Steven Seitel 2,481 hours
Anne of the Island (version 2) by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 2,196 hours
Persuasion (version 4) by Jane AUSTEN read by Karen Savage 2,179 hours
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay read by Various 2,067 hours
Life on the Mississippi by Mark TWAIN read by John Greenman 1,974 hours
In the North Woods of Maine by Elmer Erwin Thomas read by KevinS 1,968 hours
Short Science Fiction Collection 022 by VARIOUS read by Various 1,881 hours
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 1,822 hours
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 by Lavinia Honeyman PORTER 1,806 hours
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1,759 hours
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) by Jane AUSTEN read by Karen Savage 1,694 hours
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 by ANONYMOUS 1,672 hours
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich 1,596 hours
The Kybalion by The Three INITIATES read by Algy Pug 1,574 hours
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 by James B. Gillett read by Various 1,571 hours
The Book Of Jasher by ANONYMOUS read by CJ Plogue 1,488 hours
The Railway Children by E. NESBIT read by Karen Savage 1,469 hours
The People of the Abyss by Jack LONDON read by Peter Yearsley 1,453 hours
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DEFOE 1,447 hours
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne read by Phil Chenevert 1,368 hours
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I by Edward GIBBON 1,343 hours

Traffic sources:
32.9% - YouTube homepage or subscription features
27.1% - YouTube search results
13.4% - Referred from a related video
7.3% - Others
6.1% - Video was being played as part of a playlist
6.1% - Link from other YouTube video
5.9% - Referred from a link on another website
1.0% - YouTube channel page
0.1% - Referred from an email or notification from YouTube
0.0% - Product_Page

Listeners location:
United States 60.8%
United Kingdom 9.5%
Canada 5.3%
Australia 2.7%
Spain 1.4%
Mexico 1.3%
Ireland 1.0%
France 0.9%
Germany 0.8%
Netherlands 0.8%
New Zealand 0.7%
South Africa 0.7%
India 0.6%
Sweden 0.4%
Brazil 0.3%

Listeners device:
Mobile 63.5%
Desktop 13.5%
Tablet 12.1%
Tv 10.8%

Listeners gender:
Female: 39.0%
Male: 61.0%
Genderuserspecified: 0.0%

Listeners age:
13-17 years 1.3%
18-24 years 10.5%
25-34 years 14.2%
35-44 years 15.9%
45-54 years 15.8%
55-64 years 18.8%
65- years 23.5%

Total number of subscribers: 182,397