Introduction to 'What Media Your Citizens Are Viewing' report
Media table explained
Explanation of media types and data collected for each type
How to filter data
Donut chart explained
Introduction to 'What Media Your Citizens Are Viewing' Report
This report is located on the Reports tab in MediaManager and includes a media table with viewing data for live events, encoder streams, and on demand media (Figure 1). Additionally, this report includes a donut chart with an overview of total media stream views. This report is helpful because it allows you to determine which media types are most popular by analyzing the number of views.
Figure 1
Media Table
The Media table has viewing data for live events, encoder streams, and on demand media separated out into individual tabs (Figure 2). Each item in the media table displays the number of total views, which is the total of all of the individual pages (URLs) found in the Pages table for the event, archive or encoder (see Filtering Data by Page Category or Title for a description of the Pages table). The media table sums up all the different publish points, video pages, events, etc from the Pages table.
Figure 2
Media types and viewing data
The following table explains what each media type is and how views for that media type are calculated.
Media Type/Tab
Media type description
How views are calculated
Live Events
Live events are streaming events that citizens view live. The media title of the live event is the event name.
Viewing data is only collected when the event is viewed live. All pages (URLs) used to access an event are counted in its views, including publishing points. For example, when a citizen watches a live stream at home that would count as 1 view for a live event.
Note: We recommend selecting one day for your time period to get the most accurate count of live views. See Selecting a Custom Date Range.
Encoder Streams
Encoder streams are when an encoder is used to stream an event. The media title of the encoder stream is the encoder name.
Important: The encoder will only appear in this report if you use the publishing points (previously known as camera publishing points) feature to stream what's playing on the encoder.
Views are how many times events were streamed using a particular encoder. For example, when a government employee uses a particular encoder to stream an event it will count as 1 view.
On Demand Media
On demand media are archive videos. They are considered 'on demand' because they are not viewed live. The media title of the on demand media is the archive video name.
All pages (URLs) used to access an archive are counted in its views, including publishing points.If a citizen watches an archive video of a town hall meeting it counts as 1 view for that particular archive video.
How to filter data
On each tab you can filter by clicking either the text or the arrows next to the text (Figure 3).
Figure 3
You can filter by:
Title: Type the name of the event/encoder/archive video you are looking for into the text field. Results will update dynamically. Note: The text field only searches the tab you are currently on and the selected date range.
Media title: Filtered in alphabetical order
Type: Filtered in alphabetical order
Total views: Filtered by highest number of views
Archive folders: Only available on the On Demand Media Tab. Uses a dropdown menu that lets you select a specific archive folder.
Donut Chart
This section also displays a static pie chart of total media stream views. It is divided by external views, which is the number of views from users outside your government network, and internal views, which is the number of views from users inside your government network (Figure 4). The total combined number of internal and external views is displayed at the top of the chart.
Figure 4
Notes:
This data may not be available if you're on a version of MediaManager older than MediaManager 4.2.
If you don't have an encoder with Performance Accelerator, all views will be counted as external views.
