Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Steve Augustino asks, Gary, since the chapters of the Completionist Club are dispersed and maintain their own records, I wonder if you have an estimate of the total number of Completionist Club members? It cannot exceed the number of downloads of your least-listened-to episode, but other than that, is there any helpful information for sizing the club?

The honest answer is that I don’t know, and there is no way to know. Podcast stats are very imperfect, and I have no idea who listened to every episode because IP addresses change frequently, and you listen on a mobile device.

Based on feedback, and the vast majority of listeners do not give any feedback, I’d say that there are several hundred members of the completionist club, and maybe over a thousand. At the end of the day, that is just a guess. Absent perfect reporting, there is no way to know. The good news is that if you are a podcast listener, your privacy is more secure listening to podcasts than it is browsing the web.