I have your answer…….
Go to this page and scroll down to #3090 and you will find Holdem Radio’s stats from October. (unfortunately Shoutcast does not update often)
http://www.shoutcast.com/ttsl.html
Hold’em Radio Total Listening Hours: 5,548.75
They seem to be padding by about 60 extra listeners per hour. At the time of this post they show 93 Listeners with 28 unique.
60 listeners X 24 Hours a day = 1440 Extra Listening Hours per day X 30 days = 43,200 total listening hours. That is a 778% increase for this behavior, I think that is substantial.
If you click this link to listen to Hold’em Radio anytime close to the time I post this, you will hear a garbled mess that is not listenable:
http://holdemradio.com/live.asx
Then go to this page: http://70.87.85.162:8002/index.html
And they show 97 people listening to this garbled mess? If you are considering advertising there and they offered you a package with 10,000 impressions, how many do you really think you would get? Some would be fake streams and some would be scrambled audio.
I am by no means telling you what to do….just offering a way for you to see the info for yourself if you are considering advertising with this company.