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Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-05 04:21:35
January 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#61
You guys should give us an option to choose what ads we want to see and support and which we want to avoid. Some are very obnoxious and that's why I keep my adblock on.
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
tWR
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada138 Posts
January 05 2012 04:00 GMT
#62
This is amazing, it really goes to show you that if you really work hard at marketing yourself and getting out there with your gaming.

I swear Destiny said that he makes enough by streaming, it must really be an effective means for those that give it a generous go.

The big thing is marketing yourself and being able to get out into the community.
Scrandom
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada2819 Posts
January 05 2012 04:01 GMT
#63
I use adblock on almost every single stream because you've got people who just spam ads, I saw one on new years that just had a black message saying "spamming ads until all of you leave" and it was up for hours, some streamer called pooksie
MVega
Profile Joined November 2010
763 Posts
January 05 2012 04:02 GMT
#64
On January 05 2012 12:09 sAsImre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2012 11:41 EntropyFails wrote:
On January 05 2012 11:32 floor exercise wrote:
Is the intent to lead us to believe based on this that everyone who has left Twitch for own3d have been lured away with the promise of a higher CPM when they have a lower fill rate than Twitch?

I've read it's the opposite and that your fill rate is actually worse as of late


The intent is to educate people so they can make informed choices and have informed discussions.

As for our fill rate, that is a confidential number and is super region/time specific. Whatever you read is not backed up by any facts and even if it were, it was only true for the minute sampling of time that the facts were taken from.

We are always working hard to improve our fill rate. It helps both ourselves and our partners.


So FXOBoSs or you is lying. Great thing that you can do your own advertisment on this website and that people takes it for truth while it's nothing more than propaganda.


No, neither one of them has to be lying. More than likely one of them just has limited/bad data that doesn't allow them to reach an accurate conclusion.
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Verator
Profile Joined June 2010
United States283 Posts
January 05 2012 04:12 GMT
#65
On January 05 2012 13:02 MVega wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2012 12:09 sAsImre wrote:
On January 05 2012 11:41 EntropyFails wrote:
On January 05 2012 11:32 floor exercise wrote:
Is the intent to lead us to believe based on this that everyone who has left Twitch for own3d have been lured away with the promise of a higher CPM when they have a lower fill rate than Twitch?

I've read it's the opposite and that your fill rate is actually worse as of late


The intent is to educate people so they can make informed choices and have informed discussions.

As for our fill rate, that is a confidential number and is super region/time specific. Whatever you read is not backed up by any facts and even if it were, it was only true for the minute sampling of time that the facts were taken from.

We are always working hard to improve our fill rate. It helps both ourselves and our partners.


So FXOBoSs or you is lying. Great thing that you can do your own advertisment on this website and that people takes it for truth while it's nothing more than propaganda.


No, neither one of them has to be lying. More than likely one of them just has limited/bad data that doesn't allow them to reach an accurate conclusion.



Or, since the fxo streams are at bad times for the west typically, and own3d is more popular in the east, own3d will be more likely to hit with people that are in the same timezones as the streams.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. -- Bertrand Russell
EntropyFails
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
81 Posts
January 05 2012 04:39 GMT
#66
We have the exact same incentives as our streamers to get our fill rates as high as possible. Our ultimate goal is that there is no difference between eCPM and CPM. That can happen if we can manage to get fill rates of 100%. But this form of advertising is very new and it isn't like we can just offer discounts like TV can to ensure 100% fill rate. There has to be enough video commercial content out there and enough advertisers spending money on that, which there currently is not. We are working very hard to land enough ad content to support as high of a fill rate as possible. We are partnered with large ad networks to facilitate this. Several people's full time job is to secure this ad content.

As far as FXOBoss, he hasn't streamed on our site in many months so he has absolutely no information to compare own3d's fill rate with our current fill rate for his content. We would welcome him back to try streaming with us as a partner if he is dissatisfied with his current fill situation and is able to stream with us. I personally believe that he would get more viewers and more revenue by streaming with us.
FishStix
Profile Joined April 2010
United States425 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-05 05:09:56
January 05 2012 05:07 GMT
#67
On January 05 2012 09:53 ch33psh33p wrote:
Finally transparency. It always seemed a little ridiculous that this was so covered up.

It was never intentionally 'covered up' -- this is not some big secret, or unique to TwitchTV and Own3D. Kevin is just imparting some knowledge about the world of video advertising as a whole

On January 05 2012 10:06 vileIllusion wrote:
<3 kevin and ben @ twitch :D


<3 :D

On January 05 2012 10:12 sAsImre wrote:
I think that FXOBoSs would beg to disagree that you want to provide the best for streamers.. and he shouldn't be the only one. Amazing too that you use a 50% fill rate as exemple while it was apparently at 15% for FXO.


Ad-fill fluctuates greatly... the supposed 15% fill rate was truly an anomaly and didn't last. Unfortunately for FXO, since they peaced out we've had pretty exceptional fill in most regions
I do stuff in eSports
Urielnam
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Israel54 Posts
January 05 2012 05:46 GMT
#68
Twich is always my favorite broadcasting service as audience, they other ones are just lagging sooooo bad.

<3 Twitch.TV!
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment
Popcorn1
Profile Joined August 2010
United States92 Posts
January 05 2012 05:48 GMT
#69
Twitch.TV FTW!!!!!!! <3
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Innovation
Profile Joined February 2010
United States284 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-05 05:57:24
January 05 2012 05:55 GMT
#70
Calculation for eCPM is easily obtained by calculating the revenue vs the viewership.


This is somewhat misleading and technically false. Viewership has no relation to ad impressions and it would be impossible to calculate a true eCPM from total viewership numbers. This type of calculation brings other factors into the calculation that has nothing to do with fill rate, and leaves out factors that are very important to obtaining a true eCPM.

When I stated my facts it was based on calculations made by our own monitoring system we use for our own advertising purposes (FXOpen spends over 5 million a year in online advertising).

Our fill rate at twitch was much lower than own3d. But as I have previously stated I am not really satisfied with either parties at the moment.


I won't question your experience, however, fill rate has little to do with what either twitch.tv or Own3d is doing assuming they both have inventory on networks or exchanges. Nearly all inventory on the web (potention ad impressions) are available via an exchange/dsp system where ads are bid upon in real time depending on the context of the site and the specific attributes of the user that is loading the page. inventory levels and fill rates are fluid in that they shift all the time depending on seasonality and demand etc...if you are currently experiencing better revenue in the recent months it's probably due to the fact that inventory is seasonally low which means fill rates will be higher compared to say April through August which generally suffers from high inventory and lower fill rates. This may be the simple answer for what you were experiencing. In addition, you can positively influence your revenue much more by simply following best practices for online streaming than you ever will be able to by switching back and forth based upon a simplistic look at Viewership VS Revenue.

Twitch has done good by clarifying all this to people. The only problem now is that people are going to start constantly calculating what their fill rate is, what their ecpm is. And its a pretty simple calculation.


Twitch has done a good job by clarifying this to people but I disagree with your next statement. It is in fact extremely beneficial for people to understand, calculate, and trend this information because it will allow them to figure out how they can improve their performance and revenue by the actions they take running/promoting their stream. Understanding and trending how revenue/eCPM/fill rate is affected by your actions is the best way to improve revenue.

My recommendations to choosing a streaming partner are simply this. Find the partner that is seeking to create the best product and is most open/responsive to it's partners/audience needs and has the best rev share deal. I honestly don't have a clue who that is from a streaming perspective. But if you aren't getting the amount of revenue you were hoping for look inwardly first to improve the stream because that's going to be a better investment then service hoping.

good luck and keep up the awesome work promoting eSports, I'm a huge fan!
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SadSatyr
Profile Joined April 2010
United States77 Posts
January 05 2012 06:05 GMT
#71
This was a really great read, thanks for clearing this up!
SgtPepper
Profile Joined November 2010
United States568 Posts
January 05 2012 06:34 GMT
#72
dat knowledge.

Always be a twitch.tv supporter
"After I reconquer Ba Sing Se, I'm going to reconquer my tea shop! And I'm going to play Pai Sho every day."
PHILtheTANK
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1834 Posts
January 05 2012 06:44 GMT
#73
Really cool post here, nice to see some of this laid out.

When it comes to the Twitch vs Own3d thing, for me I support twitch. I constantly see Twitch sponsoring SC2 teams/events/people and you gotta support your sponsors. Plus Own3d works like shit when I watch from my cell, but Twitch works nicely most of the time.
Jieun <3
Tomazi
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United Kingdom158 Posts
January 05 2012 06:54 GMT
#74
I'm still confused about eCPM and CPM - this suggests to me that CPM is more important than eCPM. Who cares how many opportunities you have, when you can show them the actual number?
Aspiring to be MKP's butler
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15743 Posts
January 05 2012 06:57 GMT
#75
I wish I had a choice to watch someone streaming in twitch or own3d. A lot of Korean streamers use own3d exclusively. I totally support twitch 100% though. There's really no effective way for me to eliminate own3d :/
Agnosthar
Profile Joined August 2010
631 Posts
January 05 2012 07:00 GMT
#76
Thankyou very much for writing such an informative explanation of how streaming revenue is analysed and calculated. I'd also like to hear thoughts on advertisement blockers, whether you have any estimates viewing opportunities lost on average and if companies like Twitch.tv have any solutions to, or methods of placating the issue.
MetalFace
Profile Joined September 2010
United States75 Posts
January 05 2012 07:17 GMT
#77
As a viewer, I've always been very happy with the service of TwitchTV. And while this information doesn't particularly affect me, as I don't stream, I do watch many streams and find it very interesting how the revenue model works. Thanks for the insight, and keep up the good work!
Tumor
Profile Joined July 2010
Austria192 Posts
January 05 2012 07:17 GMT
#78
Thx for this Kevin, i enjoy your service, but it makes me a little bit sad to see some Players Click on the ad button and nothing happens to me. i removed adblockers. so there are no ads for my Country(austria) when it just blinks black for a second or is there an issue?
Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6267 Posts
January 05 2012 07:27 GMT
#79
Great and very informative post!

This should help some ppl estimate how much do streamers make!
RaKooNs
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom397 Posts
January 05 2012 08:13 GMT
#80
What my question is why did destiny move to owned.tv if you have the same or equal eCPM as them?
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