Assessing Avg LG15 Viewership

[milowent]

The Test video and Bree's decision to go to Jonas (while Daniel stays behind) are fairly huge developments to the LG15 plotline. So, how many people are still watching?

Surely, many people on YT still don't realize who jonas is. Jonas only has 6337 subscribers compared to Gemma (13,864), Daniel (17,505), and Bree (69,311). That's a problem because Jonas has posted the last two videos: Tough Cookie and Your Decision.

The 4 Jonas post-canonization vids:
Tough Cookie (posted 17 hours ago) [12.12]: 9,211 views (+7248 on revver)
Your Decision [12.09]: 76,042 views (+12,708 on revver)
The AntiCribs [12.05]: 70,646 views (+11,562 on revver)
Trust Issues [11.29]: 61,208 views (+13,615 on revver)

All of Daniel's videos since I'm Hiding Out (Oct 20) (221K views) have less than 100K views, except for Homeless (Dec 1) (105K views)

And Bree's last video - Warwalking (Dec 4 - 9 days old now)has only 78K views [plus 14,394 on revvver]. That's really low. Her ones before that have fairly decent views historically speaking, though the peaks are not as high:

Bree's Vids Since Leaving Her House
Ransacked (Nov 27): 272,300 [+15,721 revver]
Thanksgiving (Nov 24): 193,135 [+17,232 revver]
Date With P. Monkey (Nov 23): 179,713 [+ 15,742 revver]
Survival Skills (Nov. 20): 322,778 [+11,290 revver]
Fleeing The Watcher (Nov. 17): 157,379 [+22,155 revver]
Man In The Suit (Nov 16): 265,870
Exploring The Motel (Nov 14): 237,927
Motel Pool (Nov 12): 162,378
On The Run (Nov 8): 286,444
Where Are My Parents (Nov 3): 323,604
Still At Daniels (Nov 3): 133,769
Life's Not Fair (Nov 2) (the last video of bree in her room): 204,517

So, it would seem to me that LG15's regular viewership is no more than 90,000. Bree, herself, has a higher viewership which includes casual fans and many curiousity views from people who don't regularly watch.

Agree? Disagree? don't care?

[Jennifer]

I would say Bree has a viewership of only 80,000-100,000 allowing for multiple watches and reloads, loads but didn't watch, or partial loads you can probably divide her "views" by two or three to get her audience.

[curiousgeorge]

Interesting Milo. Regarding any statistical type data:

How do you factor in, if at all, that these vids are not like a TV show in that they are constanly available for viewing. I don't know if I am phrasing this correctly, but I think the gist is there. I don't know if this is a big factor in all of this, but I think it is something to consider. It certainly is different than a standard "Nielsen" ratings survey, which is in itself pretty sophisticated.

The other factor is the repeat viewings. I suspect the "clue hounds" who do not dl the vids may account for a large number of repeat viewings. Another factor is the somewhat suspect YT counting system, oft discussed.

I guess my point is that the numbers are a little hard to interpret for me, but I do think that we might be able to pick up large-scale trends. It is a new game and watching all this unfold is kinda fun!

Interesting....


ETA: I would love to see the numbers that Telegraph Ave. is using in their marketing efforts. Not saying they are misleading, just uhm Curious .

[Terryfic]

I would say the loyal viewership* of LG is much lower than 90,000, maybe closer to 20,000 if even that. I think most of the other views are simply curiosity clicks (plus you have to account for repeated and accidental views, i.e. just going to Bree’s profile on YT automatically starts playing a video now and that inflates the view count), or people following the story very casually. I don't think these numbers are that bad. I just think the audience size for people interested in IMS is a lot smaller than originally projected. The fact that most other IMS get much smaller numbers seems to point to this.

*by loyal viewership I mean those that actually seek out the videos. To compare it to TV, those viewers that would follow the show after a time slot change.

Edit: CG, excellent point about how these numbers cannot be directly compared to TV ratings as they are measuring very different things. An IMS never has to compete against anything else airing at the same time. If people had to choose between LG and say American Idol, well I’m not sure they would get many views at all.* It seems like TV is moving more in this direction with TiVo and OnDemand programming, I suppose when that is fully rolled out and is commonplace we will finally have some comparable numbers.

*Not that I like American Idol it just seems to be an unstoppable ratings juggernaut, it even has Lost on the run to 10pm next year.

[Jennifer]

Yes agreed, loyal viewership much lower.

Website owners often like to inflate their status by quoting hits excluding uniques or "views" or membership.

Take this site. One could say it had 600 members but the active partcipation is probably closer to 50 members. Also the number of read to post hits here is a telling statistic. People are reloading just to see the latest comments and this applies to You Tube vids too. They will come back to see the latest comments and then hit "view all comments" Without even watching the vid again, this adds another "view".