Captivate downloads: where to find your stats

Captivate downloads are under Analytics in the left navigation of your Captivate dashboard. Start with Summary for show-level totals, then use Listener Behaviour, Performance Comparison, or Episode Overview when you need a narrower answer. For one release, open Episodes and select its analytics icon.

These reports describe delivery and activity Captivate can observe. Keep them separate from completion, retention, and follower data held by individual listening apps.

How to see Captivate downloads

1. Sign in to Captivate and confirm that you have opened the intended podcast.
2. Select Analytics in the left navigation.
3. Open Summary for the show's download overview and averages.
4. Choose the tab that matches your question, then set the relevant date range or episodes.
5. Record the view, range, episode scope, and date checked with the result.

Captivate's official analytics overview documents this route. Its Summary dashboard includes downloads today, yesterday, over rolling 7-day, 28-day, and 90-day periods, and all-time downloads. It also includes daily, weekly, 28-day, and 90-day averages.

Do not compare two numbers until their windows match. A rolling period answers a different question from an episode's lifetime total. Our Captivate analytics guide shows how to preserve the filters and release context behind a recurring report.

Choose the Captivate view that fits the question

Captivate divides the full analytics dashboard into several views. Use each one for a specific job:

• Summary: show-level download totals, averages, trending episodes, and month-to-month results
• Listener Behaviour: daily download trends, listening apps or devices, and locations for the selected period
• Performance Comparison: selected episodes placed beside one another
• Episode Overview: downloads by episode within the chosen period
• Promotional Link Analytics: visits and clicks for Captivate promotion links

A high show-wide total cannot tell you which release performed well. Move to Episode Overview or Performance Comparison when the decision concerns a title, guest, format, or publishing change.

Compare episodes at the same age. An older release has had more time to collect downloads, so placing its lifetime total beside a recent episode creates an unfair comparison. How to track podcast analytics provides a simple reporting record for the source, definition, window, and release notes.

See Captivate downloads for one episode

Captivate's individual episode analytics guide gives the current route: open Episodes in the left navigation and select the analytics icon for the episode you want to inspect.

The episode report includes three main tabs:

• Summary: the episode's download overview and rolling 12-month view
• Listener Behaviour: daily trends, apps or devices, and locations for that episode
• Web Player Analytics: playback activity observed through Captivate's own embedded player

Web Player Analytics can include minutes played, minutes replayed, consumption, and listener coverage. Those fields apply to Captivate's web player on a Captivate Site or a self-hosted site. They are not a universal completion report for listening in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or every other app.

Use how to measure podcast downloads when you need to explain why media delivery and confirmed listening are different events.

If Captivate downloads look missing or stale

Work through these checks before changing your feed:

1. Confirm the show. Accounts with more than one podcast make a correct dashboard look wrong when the wrong show is selected.
2. Reset the reporting window. Make sure the activity falls inside the current date range.
3. Check the reporting level. Use the episode icon for one release rather than relying on a show-wide chart.
4. Check the update time. Captivate's analytics FAQ says analytics refresh every 15 minutes and displays the latest update time in the upper-right corner.
5. Confirm the metric owner. Retention in Spotify or Apple Podcasts belongs in that platform's creator dashboard, not in a general host download total.

If another analytics service started recently, compare only the period both systems observed. A new prefix cannot recreate requests that happened before it entered the media path. Keep Captivate as the historical host record and label each source rather than forcing unlike totals to match.

Our podcast analytics guide explains how host delivery, prefix analytics, and listening-app engagement fit together without becoming one invented audience number.

FAQ

Where do I find Captivate downloads?

Open Analytics in the left navigation, then start with Summary for show-level downloads.

How do I see downloads for one Captivate episode?

Open Episodes and select the analytics icon for the episode you want to review.

How often does Captivate update analytics?

Captivate says the dashboard refreshes every 15 minutes and shows the latest update time.

Want a separate delivery view for a supported Captivate show? Start with Podder Analytics.