EPT50 millions foreign GSL viewers in 2011 - Page 2
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
On July 26 2011 11:56 Jonas  wrote:Someone explain to me why this isn't on Television in the US? I mean, really. This is way more views than some current television stations get Because Starcraft doesn't fit into TV's 1 hour blocks and in order to attract the general audience, you have to dumb it down, which the typical SC2 fan wouldn't enjoy. | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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Applecakes
Australia319 Posts
◈ Number of watching foreign GSL (cumulative) Rank USA 1 Canada 2 Sweden 3 Australia 4 UK 5 Germany 6 Norway 7 Denmark 8 France 9 Dutch 10 Finland 11 Singapore 12 New Zealand 13 Austria 14 Brazil 15 Switzerland 16 Belgium 17 Poland 18 Ireland 19 Japan 20 | ||
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MicroTastiC
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ZidaneTribal
United States2800 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On July 26 2011 12:02 ZidaneTribal wrote: wow japan is top 20 o.o, not china? those aren't including china | ||
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Taf the Ghost
United States11751 Posts
If we assume 180 "air days" through the Super Tournament (since there's days with double blocks, and I don't feel like counting them all up), that's roughly 300k views per day. Either way, that's a whole lot more than I was expecting. Why don't they air any commercials during the downtime for the English stream? That's better than most of the cable channels get here it the States, lol. | ||
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Taf the Ghost
United States11751 Posts
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mnck
Denmark1518 Posts
I agree that 50 million viewers is misleading because it's not unique viewers, so hard to get an image of how many actually watch GSL. Would be cool to see numbers fir highest and average simultaneous viewers. | ||
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SLTR.Maverick
Canada142 Posts
I know MLG Columbus got almost half that in 3 days but I still think its quite impressive considering MLG is a foreign tournament that should be getting those foreign views. | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
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NoobSkills
United States1595 Posts
On July 26 2011 11:45 CursedFeanor wrote: 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) I thought GSL had more viewers. (24) I thought GSL had about this number of viewers. (17) 513 total votes Your vote: Does GSL gets more or less viewers than you expected? (Vote): I thought GSL had less 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? That is why I would really like to know. How many people actually subscribe per event. Then we could work out how much money is working towards improving the stream quality and how much is going into their pockets. I personally wouldn't mind paying $5 per season even if almost all of it went into their pockets, but with advertising they probably make enough cash to pay for the stream to US as is. I just wish they wouldn't just attempt to capitalize so much off of foreign viewers, because when their contract is up with Blizzard, someone cheaper will come around. | ||
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dartoo
India2889 Posts
I'm really interested in a country wise break up. | ||
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MonkSEA
Australia1227 Posts
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lunchforthesky
United Kingdom967 Posts
On July 26 2011 12:05 SLTR.Maverick wrote: Woah, that's surprising. I'm glad they got so many foreign views. I wonder how many Korean views they had? I know MLG Columbus got almost half that in 3 days but I still think its quite impressive considering MLG is a foreign tournament that should be getting those foreign views. Well the MLG stream was filled with people refreshing for lag and tabbing between streams. I watch all weekend and probably contributing 100 views alone if not more. | ||
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Mioraka
Canada1353 Posts
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lunchforthesky
United Kingdom967 Posts
On July 26 2011 12:06 NoobSkills wrote: That is why I would really like to know. How many people actually subscribe per event. Then we could work out how much money is working towards improving the stream quality and how much is going into their pockets. I personally wouldn't mind paying $5 per season even if almost all of it went into their pockets, but with advertising they probably make enough cash to pay for the stream to US as is. I just wish they wouldn't just attempt to capitalize so much off of foreign viewers, because when their contract is up with Blizzard, someone cheaper will come around. GSL is cheap already. It costs about the price of a movie and you get a months entertainment. | ||
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GeorgeForeman
United States1746 Posts
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
On July 26 2011 11:56 lunchforthesky wrote: 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. 1) They said it was Vods + Live 2) Series = 1 vod. So it counts you only once 3) I don't know if watching twice counts as 2 views, but I doubt that has much of a difference on the results. I actually just tried to try some form of pseudo scientific test, but even that failed because every time I refresh, it has went up by like 4-5 views  I'm pretty certain its a bloated stat though. Most people only release the best stat they have, and they figured that was it. It is kinda like when a product says it can DO THIS UP TO (number here)% or something. I just automatically divide by half and subtract my favorite number. | ||
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