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GomTV has apparently released some numbers about its viewership according to this source. Over 50 millions viewers in the first half of 2011 is indeed an impressive feat! It would be interesting to know how many unique viewers there are too...
Poll: Does GSL gets more or less viewers than you expected?I thought GSL had less viewers. (472) 92% I thought GSL had more viewers. (24) 5% I thought GSL had about this number of viewers. (17) 3% 513 total votes Your vote: Does GSL gets more or less viewers than you expected? (Vote): I thought GSL had less viewers.
(Vote): I thought GSL had about this number of viewers.
(Vote): I thought GSL had more viewers.
Considering we've heard recently that the sc2 scene in korea is not doing too well, this seems surprising to me personally. What do you think?
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Well this is only foreign viewership. So we still don't really know how well it's recieved in Korea. And this is during crazy hours for the US.
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That's obviously not unique viewers, I hate non unique viewer views, it is so misleading. Like last MLG event had literally 50X the amount of viewers than unique views because people kept switching between red & blue & halo reach & BLOPS streams.
I love hearing numbers though and I'm glad GOMTV is popular, go esports!
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Oh dip, that's quite a few. I guess it shouldn't be too overly surprising. MLG had 24 million viewers over the course of three days (though it did include games like Halo and COD). Unique viewing numbers are certainly more important however.
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Are you sure this isnt viewS and not viewERS
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I believe it is views, not viewers. A significant difference that the article doesn't point out.
Edit, Oh cool I'm going to post first! Reread the article just to make sure i'm right... okay cool! Post..
5 posts beat me.
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Wow, GSL is bigger than I thought! Gomtv has great production value though, and amazing players so they deserve it!
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It's in views. True.
Also true is that the numbers would be so much higher if aired at primetime in NA rather than anti-primetime. Literally. Anti-primetime exactly, lol.
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On July 26 2011 11:48 Absent Minded wrote:
Are you sure this isnt viewS and not viewERS
Well on complexitygamer, they do refer to "viewers", but I agree that "views" is much more likely. Possible translation mistake I suppose.
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Wow. That's actually amazing. Mind boggling even. To think that 50 million people tuned in to watch starcraft at its highest production and play level is amazing.
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if this is not unique viewers, which it probably isn't, then i'm confused. so I am confused.
what constitutes 1 viewer? if it's equivalent to 1 non-unique view, then that's not really surprising, still has a lot of room to grow, shame tastosis won't be at MLG to plug GSL since a bunch of husky fans will probably be watching
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This is mind blowing, even if these aren't 50 million 'unique' views.
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it's not unique views but that number is still impressive to me
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It is pretty high considering that is pretty anti-prime time for the States and not that good as well for Europe.
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On July 26 2011 11:53 Deshkar wrote:
It is pretty high considering that is pretty anti-prime time for the States and not that good as well for Europe.
also USA representing at #1 spot for foreign viewership!
have to watch GSL starting at 1:30 to 5:30 AM depending on time zone and daylight savings time
although, I'm guessing part of that 50M viewers comes from VOD views
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To put this in context, Husky has 72 million views. Of course that is since June 2009 and you don't pay to watch Husky. Where as the majority of those views will be paying subscribers.
There's so much more you need to know though. For example, how many unique views, is this just on the live stream, or just the vods or both? When I watch a seven game series does this count me seven times or just once? If I watch the same vod twice does that count as 2 views or 1?
Really hard to read much into such an open ended stat.
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1/5th of that being from china alone is pretty impressive. Even though china is a large country, I didn't expect that many people to be into starcraft 2.
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It's about right in line of what I was expecting. The article says it includes 3 code S tournaments, the world championship, and the Supertournament for a total of 5 GSLs. 40 million from GOMtv.net and 12 million from China, so about 8 million views on average per season. Pretty impressive stuff considering all the barriers to watching the GSL (inconvenient broadcast time, no restreams, not uploaded onto youtube, need to pay for HD stream and VODs, need to install GOMplayer).
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