@benjaminbellamy @dwev @aslakr @dwev@mstdn.dk @js @Castopod I don't care about download metrics. IMHO they are irrelevant and the Emporer's new clothes. I read this paragraph from an old NPR document discussing RAD.
Downloads do not equal listens and there is no data about Listen Time, % Completed or Value Paid. The ONLY reason we still persist with this old legacy metric is it's the only metric hosts can offer podcasters. First-party data is with the apps.
https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2018/12/11/675250553/remote-audio-data-is-here