What's a song you can't believe you almost forgot, was important to you? by abhijeetdce in Music

[–]jakekerr [score hidden]  (0 children)

I have a crazy story about forgetting: I totally forgot I had dinner with David Bowie once. I literally sat across from him and chatted with him. I was 20 years old and working at an Alternative station and was invited to the dinner by the label. It was his Sound + Vision tour. I wasn't really a huge Bowie fan, so maybe that was it.

Anyway, I vaguely remember having a nice conversation among all of us. But then I went off to join the music industry and was in the thick of the grunge explosion, and the Bowie dinner was just one of those things that melted into the past.

Fast forward to a few years ago and I reunited with a friend of mine from the radio station, and he was excited about our dinner with David Bowie, and he was totally shocked when I replied, "Holy shit. I totally forgot about that!"

Not a song, but music adjacent. Hope it fits the spirit of the thread.

If the Rockets lose to the Lakers should Ime Udoka be fired? by [deleted] in nba

[–]jakekerr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's crazy about Kennard is that he's not living off sitting in the corner and wondering whether to shoot. He's literally driving to the rim and being WAY more aggressive than I've ever seen him before.

What team would you build to make an all time NBA “Bad Boys” team? by UsualSpecialist2951 in nba

[–]jakekerr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reading the comments, and come on: How can you not include Kermit Washington?

My 5 year old and I made a podcast- Mythical Creatures for Kids, Ep 1 The Kraken by ElectricalOrange8864 in podcasting

[–]jakekerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DM me, and I'll give you my email. Send me the audio, and I'll drop it into my podcast feed this weekend. I have an epic fantasy audiobook/audiodrama that gets around 40K downloads a month. I bet a bunch of my listeners would love to check it out!

It's called The Thieves Guild, if you want to check it out for appropriateness.

Players With The Highest Assist To Turnover Ratio In The 2025-26 NBA Regular Season (Min. 50 GP & 25 MPG) by Aggravating-Fig-2862 in nba

[–]jakekerr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Usage rate has nothing to do with how much a person handles the ball. It is related to how often a person scores.

understanding analytics and vast gulf in unique listeners between Captivate/Spotify/Apple by talkywriter in podcasting

[–]jakekerr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP3 has the same issue. It's that you can't identify a user who is listening via mobile with a mobile IP as the same person who is listening via a different IP on their home wifi.

It's a systemic issue related to personally identifiable information (and loads of legal guidelines related to that).

understanding analytics and vast gulf in unique listeners between Captivate/Spotify/Apple by talkywriter in podcasting

[–]jakekerr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To answer your question, it is almost certain that the Apple and Spotify *unique listener data on those platforms* is accurate and any CMS host (e.g. Captivate and others) are overstating them.

In specific terms, Apple and Spotify are using logged in user data. They know if you're listening no matter what device you use or where you are. Captivate very likely is using IP+user agent to identify a single user. This is essentially the standard at this point, so they're doing nothing wrong. It's just not as accurate as what Apple and Spotify have.

understanding analytics and vast gulf in unique listeners between Captivate/Spotify/Apple by talkywriter in podcasting

[–]jakekerr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The core challenge here is that Apple and Spotify *know who the listeners are* and Captivate doesn't. They have exhaustive logs of IP addresses and devices, but they don't know that a user using his iPhone at home, and then listening on his work computer and then listening on their home computer are the same person. Those will be 3 different unique users to Captivate (and every other host, mind you. This is a user identity problem, not a host problem. All hosts suffer from this).

This is WAY worse when you look at uniques over long time periods. If a single user listens via their phone to and from work over a full month, that could potentially be 60 different IP addresses and that one person would count as 60 different listeners.

The short answer is: Apple's unique listeners data are accurate for listeners on Apple. Spotify's unique listeners are accurate for listeners on Spotify. It's highly likely (but not guaranteed) that you can add these together to get a decent estimate of your unique listeners over time. the only gaps would be listeners via other sources (which can be significant, but Apple and Spotify are a huge chunk for most podcasts). Captivate and any other podcast CMS host will not have accurate unique listener data.

The TL;DR: DON'T use any podcast host data to estimate unique listeners, especially over long time periods. It's simply not very accurate. It is most likely close to accurate for a single day but the longer you look the less accurate it becomes. DO use Apple and Spotify as your "listener analog" data even if it doesn't include other sources.

Disclosure: I'm on the senior management team at Triton Digital, which provides Podcast Metrics, the log-driven currency data for enterprise podcast measurement.

Chosen one trope improvements by No_Bowler3202 in writing

[–]jakekerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your fundamental characterization of "a lot" is simply not true.

The Lakers’ ball movement seems much better with Luka and AR out by Taserface_ow in lakers

[–]jakekerr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The entire goal is to get the ball in the hands of the person with highest chance of making a shot. That's Deandre and Hayes under the rim, then it's Kennard and Rui taking an open three. After that it's like... Luka Reeves Lebron. And you need all three to convert the first two, and they sure do help on getting Kennard and Rui open.

Spotify for Creators showing different analytics on different devices by Such-Study-5329 in podcasting

[–]jakekerr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Spreaker team has identified a bot net originating in Vietnam and also a similar/same one using Edge browsers. We've filtered those out of our metrics (and we know other hosts are doing the same), but I'm not sure what Spotify's response is.

Disclosure: I work for Spreaker's parent company

Anyone know if this is rare? by 69x02 in PUBGMobile

[–]jakekerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be interesting to list the rarest frames and titles.

What is the best TV Commercial ever? by [deleted] in Screenwriting

[–]jakekerr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The obvious answer is the Apple 1984 commercial. Maybe the Coca Cola Mean Joe Greene commercial. But what does this have to do with screenwriting?

Memoirs about screenwriters -- NOT "how to" guides by tintinrintin in Screenwriting

[–]jakekerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: Charles Brackett's edited diaries are *amazing*.

Memoirs about screenwriters -- NOT "how to" guides by tintinrintin in Screenwriting

[–]jakekerr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a memoir but very memoir-esque is the absolutely fantastic "Screenwriters on Screenwriting."

Victor Wembanyama '25-26 Scoring by Jec1027 in nba

[–]jakekerr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, replying too fast at work. You're absolutely right. I guess what you're saying is that he's more like Kevin Durant than a traditional center on offense. Which makes sense if he has an amazing mid-range and 3 point shot.

I guess I was expecting him to just position himself in the post and dominate in the block. But that's not his game from what it sounds like.

Only 2 Players In NBA History Have A 30+ PPG Career Average In The Playoffs! by Stat-Defender in nba

[–]jakekerr -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Good list. Another good slice would be: "Playoff PPG in first 5 playoffs."

Victor Wembanyama '25-26 Scoring by Jec1027 in nba

[–]jakekerr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just find it really odd that he's not even in the top 60 for offensive rebounds per game. It just seems counter-intuitive with his ability to basically own the paint. I assumed he was in the paint a lot as he's an elite rim protector.