Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Athcast
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The result was delete and prevent recreation. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:08, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Apparently about as non-notable a website as it's possible to get ("the world's first rockumentary podcast series"). This has been created and speedied three times so far, so bringing it over to get a consensus to delete, so it can be salted and/or G4'd in future. (Or, of course, a consensus that it is in fact notable and we can stop deleting it.) – iridescent 18:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. —Cliff smith talk 19:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
hit with strong salt non notable and keeps being recreated. Sticky Parkin 19:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Athcast is not a website. Athcast is a podcasting series that has produced hundreds of episodes filled with live music from Athens, Georgia. Athcast was the first podcasting series to combine live music performances, band interviews, fan interviews, and photos from the concert and make them available for .m4b download. This is a notable media brand.
Athcast is one of the few independent brands that has its own "room" on the iTunes Music Store. Most of these rooms are given to large corporations such as BBC, etc. Apple created the room for Athcast Podcasts -- and that is notable as evidenced by the Athens Music room on the iTunes Music Store.
Athcast also has a website. And as stated above, Athcast.com is probably as non-notable as it can get -- the site itself is merely a portal for the live concert recordings.
The traffic that Athcast the podcasting series generates, however, is certainly notable. Below is a breakdown of athcast stats. In July, Athcast podcasts generated 63,237 unique visitors.
Month Uniques visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Jan 2008 46720 188478 497441 535706 151.61 GB
Feb 2008 49556 202138 531714 562217 136.66 GB
Mar 2008 53710 220708 583040 610686 110.04 GB
Apr 2008 54986 233723 614011 643451 112.07 GB
May 2008 56863 238545 622381 655708 103.48 GB
Jun 2008 58621 234100 628685 655862 119.83 GB
Jul 2008 63237 241713 764427 831326 148.02 GB
Aug 2008 32624 86944 294524 321864 63.70 GB
Sep 2008 0 0 0 0 0
Oct 2008 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 2008 0 0 0 0 0
Dec 2008 0 0 0 0 0
Total 416317 1646349 4536223 4816820 945.41 GB —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brinkwar (talk • contribs) 19:06, 11 August 2008 (UTC) — Brinkwar (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
- Or for someone who doesn't want to wade through the statistics, a somewhat more pertinent one may be "Athcast.com has a traffic rank of: 8,398,343" – iridescent 19:16, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete and salt. I wouldn't see too much into the number of unique visitors. Those figures usually include spiders, and a server usually cannot tell the difference. Per Iridescent, these figures seem pretty low for a podcast which you claim is notable. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 20:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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