Comparing PPM Streaming Data to Actual Server Stream Metrics

Mark Ramsey, in a recent article on Hear 2.0, posed an interesting exercise for broadcasters - calculate the difference between your stream's cume in PPM to the records that your CDN provides for total unique connections for the same period.

He asked for responses to these case studies. So - in an effort to make this easy to do, here's a link to a spreadsheet where you can enter the info for your stream and compare the results with others:


Stream PPM vs Server Log Comparison - Online Spreadsheets - EditGrid