The "Let's use YouTube views as ratings to see who really over" Thread

[julesocean]

First, we expose how BS Nielsen ratings are. It's extrapolated data, and I never heard of anyone that takes part in this, so it's gotta be wildly inaccurate.

Nielsen television ratings are gathered in one of two ways:

1. Viewer "diaries," in which a target audience self-records its viewing or listening habits. By targeting various demographics, the assembled statistical models provide a rendering of the audiences of any given show, network, and programming hour.
2. A more technologically sophisticated system uses Set Meters, which are small devices connected to televisions in selected homes. These devices gather the viewing habits of the home and transmit the information nightly to Nielsen through a "Home Unit" connected to a phone line. The technology-based home unit system is meant to allow market researchers to study television viewing habits on a minute to minute basis, seeing the exact moment viewers change channels or turn off their television set. In addition to set meters, individual viewer reporting devices, such as people meters, have allowed the company to separate household viewing information into various demographic groups.

Now we will incorporate the "casual viewer" logic of they only check youtube clips, and they only check clips of people they actually like, in programs that actually interest them. I, myself am doing this at the moment. We will also assume there is no funny business on WWE's side to boost views for certain people. Let's take a look at this weeks' numbers.

RAW

What we can see with our fukkin' eyes:

-Rousey is a huge draw
-Braun is a great draw
-Seth is a decent draw
-people are not messing with the B-Team and/or the tag division
-the Women's evolution is drawing more than Elias/Lashley
-people are very interested in the Lesnar/Heyman conflict
-Roman is a huge draw
-no one gives a fukk about Finn Balor
-no one gives a fukk about Bobby Roode

SD

What we can see with our fukkin' eyes:

-Paige draws as a GM, people like to stare at her pasty white skin
-still no one gives a fukk about tag teams, even in the main event
-Orton has revitalized his career by going heel
-Shinsuke still holding it down as a heel
-Styles starting to lose big stream / ppl don't care about Samoa Joe
-no one fukks with the Miz reality show
-Bryan is thus carrying this feud, interest wise
-Lana and Zelina almost outdrew Charlotte/Becky, but the latter was a tag match after-all, also means people are into the Almas/Rusev feud

I'll update weekly, as consistency will tell us even more. :_dallas:

 

[jackswstd]

Vince obviously paid people to watch Roman clips on YouTube just like he pays them to cheer, hold signs, and chant.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

U can't spot fake views really cause views from places like columbia or Paraguay are kinda normal since wwe is a global brand

Creatives just need to look at the youtube top comments to give fans what they want, they don't even need to invest in polls/ research etc. Other companies would kill for the mass of feedback wwe gets from their costumers...well but Vince gonna Vince...and Steph gonna Steph....I gonna keep ignoring wwe

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Does the WWE make internet shows or TV shows? Until they dont serve masters of TV, they wont look at this seriously

 

[Paper Boi]

using youtube views will tell you that mania should be headlined by rey mysterio vs. the great khali

 

[mrken12]

Vince obviously paid people to watch Roman clips on YouTube just like he pays them to cheer, hold signs, and chant.

Even the women don't cape for Roman this much. You might have a problem.

 

[R=G]

Vince obviously paid people to watch Roman clips on YouTube just like he pays them to cheer, hold signs, and chant.

So what's this all about..you actually Roman is the complete package and is being picked on? After 5 fukking Lesnar title matches and that hideous match with Taker at Mania?

 

[jackswstd]

Even the women don't cape for Roman this much. You might have a problem.

some of y'all spend thread upon thread crying about Roman yet I have the problem.

 

[Kinguno]

They decide what clips to post

Watching an interview clip dumb as hell

 

[OVER]

Last week I saw this video trending. It is currently sitting at 1.7 million views.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

YouTube will never count as a ratings replacement because it counts all views from every country that supports YouTube. So unless we see US only views it's a moot point.