Podcast Growth: audience and monetisation

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I'm learning "Podcast Growth: audience and monetisation" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Know your numbers".

What the lesson teaches:
- Downloads (or downloads per episode) is the number your hosting provider counts when a file is requested. It has traditionally been the key reach number, but a download is not a person: one person can download several times, and a file can be downloaded and never played.
- Apple Podcasts Connect Analytics focuses instead on listening and viewing from unique devices. Apple's definitions: Followers are the total number of people following your show; Listeners are the total number of people who listened to or watched your show; Engaged Listeners are people who listened or watched at least 20 minutes or 40% of an episode; Plays are the number of times people pressed play on an episode.
- Apple shows data for the last 60 days by default, and no data appears until at least five unique listeners have played your show.
- Apple says it does not support third-party podcast analytics. For downloads and similar numbers, look at your hosting provider.
- Numbers from different tools will not match, because each counts in its own way. Do not add them together or compare a download figure with a listener figure.
- A trend (this month against last month, or episode 10 against episode 9) is more useful than one number on its own.
- A goal metric is the single number you choose to improve for one period, such as "episodes finished per new listener" or "new followers per month".

The exercise I'm working on:
Build your one-page numbers table with the source of each figure and choose one goal metric for the next 30 days.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Know your numbers" from the course "Podcast Growth: audience and monetisation".

Here's what the lesson says:
Imagine you bake cookies and put them on a table. Counting how many cookies left the table is one thing. Counting how many different kids took cookies is another. And knowing which kids came back the next day is the best thing to know. Podcast numbers work the same way: there is more than one way to count, and each one tells you something different.

The activity:
Build your one-page numbers table with the source of each figure and choose one goal metric for the next 30 days.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.