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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Would be nice to see larger metrics. There's a lot more streamers in a genre than there are tv shows in a genre. There's also a lot more genres of streams than tv (every game is basically it's own genre).

Which is a kinda weird attempt to obfuscate metrics.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

As far as I can tell from googling marketing reports. Streaming consumption is basically doubling every year reaching a total of 8 billion minutes watched in quarter 4 of last year. Consersely, traditional television viewership is falling super rapidly for people under 34, fairly quickly for 35-50, and basically unchanged or even increasing in people older than that. For the 12-17 and 18-34 demographics, they spend more time using apps on their smartphone per day than watching traditional tv.

Which is a claim that largely relies on disingenuous arguments. The reality is that the biggest streams don't come close to a lot of network television. When just an average show is pulling in six times the viewership as your record-setting content, that's a pretty massive gulf.

And while people keep saying, "oh, well, streaming is growing!", when you're looking at YTers, VTubers, and the like, they're NEVER going to be as big as major sporting events, film, tv shows, etc, and how could they be? Seriously? Even right now, the biggest YT channels generally aren't "originals" but instead people and companies who were already big that moved into the space. For example, the tenth largest YT channel is the WWE, which itself is a fraction of the size it was 20 years ago when the wrestling business went to shit. Ultimately the real streaming growth is just established brands who succeeded on tv moving into a new format.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

It's a bit annoying that streaming statistics tend to be in total time viewed, whereas tv stats tended to be in average per person.

...but I was referring an apples-to-apples. More importantly, the reason that streaming has to rely on alternative metrics is because it can't compete on conventional metrics. The first-time viewers for a tv show make the biggest fucking streamer in the world's metrics look like a joke. Again, the largest viewership simultaneously watching a stream was only that 2.4m or whatever, which is the viewership that Supernatural was still pulling in during later seasons and, even when Supernatural's viewership dipped to the point they finally decided to end the show, it vastly outperformed almost everything on streaming.


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