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Post by vinceneilgiraldo on Jul 16, 2024 6:46:30 GMT 1
I have no idea how any of this works. But I saw the guy from Eight Ball bragging on Sludge about his band having a hundred thousand views on their latest single.
He admits there's no money in it, but he gets bragging rights.
But here's what feels suspicious to me. The video has 108,000 views in three weeks. Yet there are only 6 comments (likely themselves or their friends), and the channel it's posted from has only 356 subscribers.
And it's not like it's a great song or video.
Videos from the past year on their channel have views ranging from 9 to 114; yet this one surpasses 100K in less than a month?
So how did it reach so many people, and why did none of them feel inclined to comment?
More power to them, but it seems strange to me.
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Post by IMS (VP of Shennanigans) on Jul 16, 2024 7:54:11 GMT 1
I have no idea how any of this works. But I saw the guy from Eight Ball bragging on Sludge about his band having a hundred thousand views on their latest single. He admits there's no money in it, but he gets bragging rights. But here's what feels suspicious to me. The video has 108,000 views in three weeks. Yet there are only 6 comments (likely themselves or their friends), and the channel it's posted from has only 356 subscribers. And it's not like it's a great song or video. Videos from the past year on their channel have views ranging from 9 to 114; yet this one surpasses 100K in less than a month? So how did it reach so many people, and why did none of them feel inclined to comment? More power to them, but it seems strange to me.
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Post by Jason Flom on Jul 16, 2024 15:14:12 GMT 1
Put up a post on sludge
175k people look at post
100k click link, watch 3 seconds, realize it sucks, and click the back button.
What’s so hard to understand?
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Post by Bahana on Jul 16, 2024 15:15:20 GMT 1
The lyric video was likely paid for as well. They can't monetize until they have at least 1k subscribers.
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Post by shocker on Jul 16, 2024 15:29:10 GMT 1
I can’t speak for “Eightball” as I don’t know the situation with that particular band/song, but I have a buddy who’s band got over half a million streams for a single tune. They’ve put out a few records but have never toured and only play once or twice a year in the St. Louis area. Most of their tunes get a few hundred streams at most, but this one particular song got added as the first song on what turned out to be a pretty popular horror/halloween compilation. Maybe Eightball found similar luck. Or, maybe they just paid for it like other folks have mentioned.
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Post by lofton23rdst on Jul 16, 2024 21:43:30 GMT 1
Put up a post on sludge 175k people look at post 100k click link, watch 3 seconds, realize it sucks, and click the back button. What’s so hard to understand? A few hundred people use Sludge. I’ve had videos posted on the board and even by Stevie on the main page several times. View count has gone up by about 500. |
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Post by Ron Burgunfeces on Jul 17, 2024 0:28:34 GMT 1
115,000 views and 6 comments. Gives a view to comment ratio of 0.000052.
You do the math on if it's legit engagement.
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Post by therealgws on Jul 17, 2024 0:43:26 GMT 1
For comparison sake, 1050 views, 6 comments, posted here and on Sludge by myself and my fan...(No I only look like I'm having a stroke, I'm fine...)
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Post by Ron Burgunfeces on Jul 17, 2024 0:47:49 GMT 1
The video has 108,000 views in three weeks. 115,000 now! 7,000more in under 1 day later! Rock fans are really gravitating to this groovy new stock photo lyric video! |
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Post by DemonFilth2001 (VP Recruiting) on Jul 17, 2024 1:13:01 GMT 1
The video has 108,000 views in three weeks. 115,000 now! 7,000more in under 1 day later! Rock fans are really gravitating to this groovy new stock photo lyric video! Bet Sleek is freaking out! |
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Post by IMS (VP of Shennanigans) on Jul 17, 2024 1:19:54 GMT 1
Put up a post on sludge 175k people look at post 100k click link, watch 3 seconds, realize it sucks, and click the back button. What’s so hard to understand?
This gem of a video posted on MS with much, much more promotion is up to 12k views in 4 years. A MS news story got the AP video in it to 2.9k views in 4 years. You really think a post on MS gets that many eyeballs? How come his other videos have double digit or less views? None of those fans wanted to check out his band's other "great" tunes or "great" live performances? The end is nigh!
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Post by IMS (VP of Shennanigans) on Jul 17, 2024 1:30:11 GMT 1
Blah, Blah, Blah posted here and on Sludge by myself and my fan... Blah, Blah, Blah  *ech* |
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Post by heenansnuka on Jul 17, 2024 7:11:40 GMT 1
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Post by vinceneilgiraldo on Jul 17, 2024 19:34:50 GMT 1
The video has 108,000 views in three weeks. 115,000 now! 7,000more in under 1 day later! Rock fans are really gravitating to this groovy new stock photo lyric video! You've got him squirming, as he's now posting gibberish about "musical journeys," "Nashville producers," "nothing longer than 3:30," etc. As if it's still 1985 and any of this shit is going to end up on FM radio or MTV. Are we to assume 8 Ball would like to take us on a "musical journey" but their "Nashville producer" won't let them because he doesn't want to hurt their foothold in the marketplace? Unless of course clicks are more expensive if the song is longer? Geez, if I had a dollar for every time one of these bozos mentions "Nashville," or "producer." Though to Carlos' credit, he at least hired Max Norman. In general, I don't have a problem with these guys paying to live out their rock and roll fantasies in middle age. I just call bullshit when part of their fantasy is the delusion that they are actually "making it," when it's so obvious shenanigans are going on. |
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