Matt, Trevor, and Bridget chat (at length) about podcasts, podcast recording, and podcast recording software. Oh, and the highlights of 2016 if they get around to it. (Don’t miss the supercut of all 2016’s cold opens, which was edited by Joe, even though Matt takes credit for it!)

What were some of your favorite episodes?

• Bridget: So many great ones! Kicked off the year with Andrew Clay Shafer and Kelsey Hightower, and we kept going at that pace!
• Trevor: Soon-to-be-finished Singapore PowerShell Summit Episode
• Matt: Personal Brand episode, Who Owns Your Availability (Bridget says “omg, left pad, we need to have this episode NOW”), CareerOps

Let’s talk numbers

Website

• 16K visitors to the website
• 46% of traffic comes from search
• 16% comes from referrals, mostly Twitter (Twitter is 6% of all traffic)
• 1% of our traffic comes from the hugo site itself (our site generator)

Episodes

• 232,200 listens in 2016 (204,001 listens in 2015)
• Most listened-to episode in 2016 was Application Configuration with Adam Jacob and Tim Gross
• Most watched YouTube video in 2016 was Bridget’s Fireside Chat with Bryan Cantrill

Website updates

• Didn’t change much, but we list episode numbers now (maybe we’ll add dates sometime)

Other improvements

• Matt did a session with Daniel J. Lewis of the Audacity to Podcast (we were a featured podcast eval in Podcasters Society) and we got a whole bunch of ideas on how to improve the show - some of which we have already started to implement). You can check out our outstanding issues on GitHub
• Welcome to Joe as our main audio editor!

What happened with you in 2016?

Matt

• Didn’t travel much - only spoke once twice - once at Pink16, and once at a Cloudbees conference in Chicago
• Only went to one devopsdays - Chicago. I’m failing!
• Hey, I got married

Bridget

• 28 talks. Give or take. A few of those were at devopsdays - I made it to London, Toronto, New York, Detroit, Havana, Philadelphia, Madison, Sydney - and of course ran Minneapolis.
• Counting North America Joe and I hit 5 continents this year. And I was going to travel less. Instead, all the airline status. Rethinking next year. Maybe get into webinars?
• Devopsdays: growing! New core team! New cities!

Trevor

• I spoke 3 times this year, but got to attend so many more conferences than before
• I was literally on the other side of the planet to my usual place of existence for the first time.
• I moved to LA
• I work for Chef now!

Check Outs

Bridget

• Systems We Love - videos at https://twitter.com/SystemsWeLove/status/809117528374972416

Trevor:

• [Westworld](http://www.startrek.com/article/klingon-mug-and-collector-lapel-pins-ready-to-beam-up Klingon Blood Wine Mug)

Matt:

• There’s this thing called Minecraft I “discovered” via my kids.
• Also reminder about code.org and everyone is talking about Hour of Code
• It’s been super retro time for Matt as he re-read a bunch of the Dragonlance books, and discovered a bunch he hadn’t read, including The Soulforge.

Community & Event Stuff

If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf

Open CFPs

• lots of DevOpsDays
• Velocity San Jose until Jan 10th
• ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017
• Monitorama - May 22-24 - until Feb 1

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