Surprising discovery

[jetpack_monkey]

When I post vids, I usually only offer streaming. I have occasionally posted a file link because someone requested it of me, but the streaming has always been the important part. This year after Vividcon, anoel hounded me after my vid posts went up about when a file download link would be available, so I put one up for all three new vids.

I'm pretty invested in my viewing statistics and I was disappointed to find that the streaming Vimeo embeds weren't getting that many views. However, on a whim, I checked my Apache logs and found that the download numbers for all three vids were far above and beyond what the streaming view statistics were (sometimes by a factor of 10).

So, I ask you, Internet -- do you prefer downloading your vids? Why? Should I go back and provide downloads for all of my vids?

Comments

[fizzyblogic]

Unless it's Festivids or I'm in one of my rare times when I've saved up a bunch of tabs and can switch to audio-visual processing mode (my brain really doesn't cope well with switching from text processing to video processing, and I have to be able to concentrate in a particular way to watch vids since I have to process things so fast), I don't watch vids that don't provide download links. I almost exclusively watch vids that I've downloaded, and then decide whether or not to keep. And then add the ones I'm keeping to my enormous folders of vids I re-watch a lot.

[jetpack_monkey]

I'll have my new vidding site up soon and that will have downloads for all of my vids.