Well, hello again! This is the Daughter of Godcast, Episode 076, Do It Again. So much beauty and fun to share in 10 minutes. We’re dusting off a scene each week, making a flurry of creative choices, and if we can keep the podcast under 10 minutes, there’s just enough time for smoothies and the occasional hot bath. This season of Daughter of Godcast, the Crowd Creation I’m offering less homespun visionary rambling, but since we’re still making this movie, I’m still making me. There’s constant clarity coming from feedback because we’re learning as we go.

We’ve demonstrated that Feedback makes the movie better. We’re finding out whether a scene is working and if not, how to tweak. New horizons too, where a scene could go, wants to go.

We are also learning how to get feedback in the first place. Episode 075 we looked at Smart Money and gave a bit more backstory than we usually do. Feedback was plentiful and inspiring. Can we know why?

The answer is probably as simple as, there were gorgeous Trilliums in the thumbnail for the video and the third shot had an intriguing pull focus from Trillium flowers to 20 dollar bills. Several people wrote that they dug the change of focus.

Reading and pondering your experiences is way more fun than analyzing the data across all social media platforms, the play rate and impressions and all that. But this data might give a sense of whether the scene is capturing the cognition of acquaintances and perfect strangers. I’d love to have feedback from other continents, especially where English is not the native tongue, and I’m expecting these new collaborators to show up easily and organically. Is analyzing the data helpful or a geeky distraction. The only way for me to really know is to check in with how I feel.

Right now, I feel like fast forwarding the numbers and skipping the question of whether analysis feels like a party or not.

As of Monday February 5, 2018… Here are the numbers, quickly.

Facebook 123 people reached, 34 minutes, 96 views. I’m making assumptions about what these numbers mean, here goes. 96 views / 123 people reached = 78% of the people reached played video, which could be comparable to VImeo’s playrate. Since Smart Money is 26 seconds long, then 34 minutes / 26 seconds = 78 plays, or about 81% of the 96 viewers watched the scene right to the end. Executive summary – 80% of people of Facebook friends played the video and watched to the end. The opening thumbnail of Trillium flowers probably started the ball rolling, and my guess is the third shot, pull focus from flower to money, was intriguing enough to hold their attention.

Vimeo has an engagement graph that shows how long people watch. Of 16 plays, 100% of the people watched to the end, with 47 impressions. In contrast to Facebook’s play rate of 78%, Vimeo’s play rate was only 34%. There’s still a lot of variables that I don’t understand, and loading the video directly to Facebook cuts off Vimeo’s data. I know you all love numbers and math, maybe someone who actually knows what it all means will get in touch.

I’ve been unsocial on Ello for the last 74 episodes of Daughter of Godcast episodes, just posting, posting, posting. I’ve got 42 followers supposedly, but I can only see 14 or so for some unknown reason. Last week I started doing outreach on Ello, exploring other artists, liking their work and following a few. Afterwards, views on Ello for Smart Money dropped from my usual 100 to 30! Is there a correlation between me getting inspired by other artists and the community getting less interested in my posts? Is there such a thing as coincidence? Not in this vibr