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Thursday, November 29, 2007

LG15 VIEWS PER MONTH

This data only covers views on the main Lonelygirl15 account on YouTube for the past year.



Since immo mentioned there were also views on Revver here they are (note that the data range is slightly different because of the data available).

17 comments:

  1. Not really an accurate picture as they revver was the default player for a substantial period. Tubemogul allows for more than on service. Why not do a chart that depcts both YT and revver?
    -immo1

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  2. I think that this honestly may be a product, as weird as it sounds, of having so many videos. When there were days between videos, I would watch them over and over. Now I only have time to watch each once before the next is out -- which is wonderful! but may lead to these numbers.

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  3. Thats a good idea to add in the Revver views. As I recall they were always relatively small compared to youtube (in the order of 20,000views/video.)

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  4. A number of factors can affect the results such as the number of videos posted on the alternate accounts. Still my guess is that the general trend is still accurate. I also suspect that now LG15 is releasing more videoes on the main account the views/month will begin to increase shortly.

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  5. Wow -- that's some interesting data. What does that last big spike on the youtube views correspond to, video-wise?

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  6. I suspect that is the season 1 series finale.

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  7. Parsing the data ... some clarification is needed.

    The first data point shows almost 5.4 million views for January 2007.

    Does that mean there were 5.4 million views during January 2007? or does that mean that videos posted in January 2007 now have a cumulative number of views of 5.4 million?

    If it is the latter, then we should always expect more recent months (in general) to have lower numbers, and for these to rise slowly as time goes on (and viewers watch past videos).

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  8. Further to my previous comment... check the data again in one month and compare to this snapshot to see whether numbers for past months continue to increase or are static.

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  9. I would think that the chart would show all the views for all the videos on that account for that month as a date point. From watching the views, a LG15 video receives the majority of its views in the first month after its release.

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  10. this is kind of a sad graph.

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  11. modelmotion, I would think otherwise. It depends on how the data is stored. Does it make sense that YouTube would store views in buckets by the time of the viewing? I don't think so. I think YouTube probably just stores the number of views per video. That means the only tie to date is the date the video was released. And that means the numbers for older months are continuing to increase over time.

    It is true that highest rate of views for a video generally occur in the days soon after a video is released. But not necessarily the majority of views for each video... they continue to rise slowly.

    If my interpretation of the data is correct, then the fall of the graph as shown is a bit deceptive - classic case of the data being a different basis than most viewers would assume. It's good data, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it is being interpreted correctly.

    What would be better would be a plot of cumulative views across all Lonelygirl15 videos each month - the total 'view count' number on the channel. The Creators may have that data if we ask for it.

    For starters, we should defintely take the same snapshot 1 month from now and compare to this one.

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  12. I think the data is created by Tubemogul. It only begins to "log an account" is after someone on the service has begun to track it.

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  13. I think the data is created by Tubemogul. It only begins to "log an account" is after someone on the service has begun to track it.

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  14. I think the data is created by Tubemogul. It only begins to "log an account" is after someone on the service has begun to track it.

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  15. Maybe we can ask Tubemogul about the data?

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  16. i think mm's interpretation is correct. tubemogul notes when they started keeping data on a channel, and it doesn't appear to lump in all old views into the first month of the data. its very believable that jan 2007 had 5.4 million youtube views.

    the last spike on the youtube graph does corresponde to the season one finale (+ the season one recap vid which itself got over a million views). also, at that same time revver was ditched (as you can see on the revver graph).

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