LibriVox monthly statistics

[BengtW]

Impressive. Is this the highest listenership ever in a month? This book catalogued in November 2023. I wonder why the sudden interest? Must be that someone mentioned it on a Podcast, or some organization urged all their members to listen to it. Would love to know.

No, June 2021 was the highest:
https://i.ibb.co/5c0cx7J/ytdata.png
But we gained 8k subscribers which is the second highest ever in a month so it attracted a lot of new people.

[TriciaG]

The October stats are pretty meaningless, but here they are:

In October, LibriVox volunteers completed 32 projects, bringing us to 952 total projects for 2024.

We've got 55 works waiting to catalog. I guess November should be a stellar month for us!

Other stats:

Total number of projects 20499
Number of completed projects 19814
Number of completed non-English projects 2466
Total number of languages 101
Number of languages with a completed work 48
Number of completed solo projects 10500
Number of readers 14018
...who have completed something 13916

[redrun]

And, for the obsessive listeners among us, the "total listening time" stat:
Those 32 projects have a combined runtime of 7 days, 13:39:58, bringing us just over 13 years and 267 days.

[annise]

Does that mean it would take me nearly 14years, listening 24 hours a day, to listen to all our catalogue . But I have already listened to some Anne

[redrun]

Yep! That's only approximate, and it's only if you listened at regular "1x" speed. It also includes all the various readings of popular works, so the quick-listening and the scrupulous might make it through in less time than that. So long as they didn't sleep.

[BengtW]

YouTube statistics for September 2024:
Views: 687,292
View time: 340,834 hours
Likes: 13,633
Comments: 1,067
Total number of subscribers: 205,458

YouTube statistics for October 2024:
Views: 648,855
View time: 327,195 hours
Likes: 10,672
Comments: 909

Most listened to:
Invisible Helpers by C. W. Leadbeater read by Various 18,506 hours
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Bernal Díaz del CASTILLO 9,729 hours
1900 or The Last President by Ingersoll LOCKWOOD read by CJ Plogue 4,892 hours
The Secret Garden (version 2) by Frances Hodgson BURNETT read by Karen Savage 3,543 hours
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. RUPPELT 2,955 hours
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation) by Leo Tolstoy 2,930 hours
The History of London by Walter BESANT read by Ruth Golding 2,885 hours
Anne of the Island (version 2) by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 2,351 hours
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll LOCKWOOD read by Various 2,210 hours
Persuasion (version 4) by Jane AUSTEN read by Karen Savage 2,169 hours
Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne read by Roger Melin 1,820 hours
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay read by Various 1,604 hours
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf read by Cori Samuel 1,517 hours
Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings by Frank James Adkins 1,494 hours
Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY read by Karen Savage 1,462 hours
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE 1,372 hours
The Railway Children by E. NESBIT read by Karen Savage 1,324 hours
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne read by Phil Chenevert 1,308 hours
In the North Woods of Maine by Elmer Erwin Thomas read by KevinS 1,287 hours
The House of Mirth by Edith WHARTON read by Elizabeth Klett 1,244 hours
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 by ANONYMOUS 1,236 hours
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 by James B. Gillett read by Various 1,182 hours
Europe In The Middle Ages by Ierne Lifford PLUNKET read by Steven Seitel 1,163 hours
Short Science Fiction Collection 098 by Various read by Various 1,130 hours
Life on the Mississippi by Mark TWAIN read by John Greenman 1,073 hours
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich NIETZSCHE read by Jeffrey Church 1,071 hours

Traffic sources:
32.3% - YouTube homepage or subscription features
28.1% - YouTube search results
9.2% - Referred from a related video
8.0% - Referred from a link on another website
7.3% - Video was being played as part of a playlist
7.3% - Others
6.6% - Link from other YouTube video
1.1% - YouTube channel page
0.0% - Referred from an email or notification from YouTube

Listeners location:
United States 57.0%
United Kingdom 9.1%
Canada 4.9%
Australia 2.8%
Spain 2.7%
Mexico 1.8%
Netherlands 1.2%
Ireland 1.0%
France 1.0%
Germany 1.0%
New Zealand 0.8%
South Africa 0.7%
India 0.5%
Brazil 0.4%
Sweden 0.3%

Listeners device:
Mobile 65.5%
Desktop 14.7%
Tablet 10.7%
Tv 9.0%

Listeners gender:
Female: 39.1%
Male: 60.8%
Genderuserspecified: 0.0%

Listeners age:
13-17 years 1.5%
18-24 years 10.3%
25-34 years 16.5%
35-44 years 18.7%
45-54 years 16.9%
55-64 years 17.1%
65- years 19.0%

Total number of subscribers: 211,732

[TriciaG]

In November, LibriVox volunteers completed 133 projects, bringing us to 1085 total projects for 2024.

Not that it's a problem, but we're about 130 projects behind 2023. I think the IA outage didn't do us any favors, but we were already 100 behind 2023 at the end of September. So it's not just the outage.

Other stats:

Total number of projects 20586
Number of completed projects 19947
Number of completed non-English projects 2491
Total number of languages 101
Number of languages with a completed work 48
Number of completed solo projects 10569
Number of readers 14036
...who have completed something 13948

Looks like we'll hit 20,000 completed projects in December!

[redrun]

And, those 133 projects have together have approximately this much runtime:
35 days, 16:36:30

So, our hypothetical obsessive listener could now listen, uninterrupted, for approximately:
13 years, 302 days, 19:55:17