malahay
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Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I scraped data between 11/6/14 - 12/6/14 as mentioned in the article, the sub train event from qt was fairly recently so outside of my date range.
The subscribers do appear in the chat, I just sat 5 minutes in trick2g's chat and took a screenshot for you: http://imgur.com/MpOJ4CD
Now we can even get more data such as how frequently they subbed. This information wasn't there in november/december. I've also mentioned in the FAQ that there were cases where the chat would freeze or another problem would occur and I would miss some subs. These are lower bounds but I highly doubt it's also as high as you are thinking. The sub train event is an outlier not part of the norm.
Comment · 11 years ago
Hello,
* I've set an ad-block rate of 76% for viewers of a stream.
* that's a very good point, and it is not account. It was assumed that everyone gets to see an ad at the same time.
* This was estimated fairly well I think, I used the Riot Games API to figure out when a streamer's game has started. Almost every streamer run a 3 minute ad right before the game starts. So I've found how many viewers there were at that moment and then calculated the ad revenue.
Hope that made it clearer :)
Comment · 11 years ago
after spending a decent amount of time watching these streamers and participating in the league of legends community, it seems that actually a fair amount of viewers turn off ad-block while watching their favorite streamer. I do it for example, if it means that Pobelter http://www.twitch.tv/pobelter is gonna earn a bit more money.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah, good point. I'll fix it once I get out of class :)
Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah that's a very good point, I couldn't find any reliable source on twitch's website. I had to dig in many /r/twitch comments to find the cpm and hoped that they were telling the truth.
In any case, I am pretty sure that my numbers are really a lower bound for how much money the streamers make. Most streamers receive more donations then subscribers, and donations don't have a fixed cost.
Comment · 11 years ago
not in any way I could think of. It's usually only shown in the video and sometimes not even then. The chat does write when someone subscribes though, that's how I managed to scrape the subscriptions.
Comment · 11 years ago
Hi Dan, nope the recurrence is not accounted, I didn't have any way of capturing it :)
I wrote a short blog post enumerating the set of practices that I believe are durable and necessary while building an agentic AI product. Hope it's useful for you too