037 - 2020 Survey Results

Jen and Alvaro chat about the survey and the future of the show!

04 Aug 2020

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Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2!

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Here are some of the survey results:

1. In your day to day life you are a:
   • Top results:
     1. Software Engineer
     2. Hardware Engineer
     3. Security Engineer
     4. Firmware Engineer
   • Other interesting ones:
     1. Carpenter
     2. Doctor
     3. Students/educators
   • Most people do listen a lot. Some several per day and some multiple per week 60%
2. Who else are you listening to:
   
   • Top ones:
     1. The Amp Hour
     2. Embedded.fm
     3. Darknet Diaries
     4. HackADay Podcast
     5. SecurityNow!
     6. Macrofab Engineering Podcast
   • This week in xxxx, cpp cast , Risky Business , On the Metal
3. Listening while:
   
   • 60% during zoning out: commute/chores
   • 20% during desk work or exercise
4. Listening via:
   
   • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
5. Podcast apps used
   • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
6. When do you listen to new shows?
   • ⅕ only when interested, otherwise pretty quickly listen to new show.
7. How to find us?
   • Social media 44 or 30%
   • Amp hour/embedded total of 25%
   • Suggested by web or other means  like other pods 63%
   • In person 2 people
8. What have been your favorite episode types?
   • Guest episodes 3:2 guests to just cohost
   • Just Jen and Alvaro
   • Conferences 1:3 confs to guests
9. Fave episodes
   • Jeri 26
   • Conferences
   • Dmitri  2
   • Ghidra 18
10. Frequency
    • 51% Too Infrequent
    • 42% Just right
    • You want more but not at the expense of content.
11. You like the interviews for
    • Casual conversions with good questions to help understand new concepts and tools.
12. After listening to an episode
    • You learned some new stuff and  are ready to try out a new project. All around 95% of the audience fell into these categories.
13. Parts you like overall:
    • Knowledgeable guests and hosts (whew…)
    • Ok but could find more topics.
14. Show notes and website:
    • You use the show notes!! 80+% use them in some capacity.
    • Hardly anyone used the website but only for show notes (31%)
15. Things to change
    • We have a bimodal audience for beginner versus depth. It’s great but challenging.
    • We can tag better to help meet your needs.
    • Alter music gain.
    • Giggling will probably continue. Sorry.
16. Things to keep
    • You like us! Yay!
17. Topics:
    • Soooo many topics and people.
18. You want: stickers and tees

The intro song is Happiest Robot and the outro is Digital Zen , both by TeknoAxe .

We’ve been using Zencastr to record the show.

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Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )