twitch-analytics
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streamer earnings estimates
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0 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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Objections
Ad revenue CPM of $2 per 1000 viewers is too high
From 2 comments
Very interesting but this part concerns me: "Advertisement money was estimated by assuming that Twitch pays $2 per 1000 ad viewers every 30 seconds." That sounds like an…
ianlevesque on HNYup, all streamers earn a lot more money from subscribers than ads. You can see that in their streams. They pay more attention to subs and most hardly ever run ads. The estimated…
MysticFear on HN
Donations are not tracked, so estimates are far off
From 3 comments
It's been mentioned before, but I feel a lot streamers (big or small) make more money off donations which isn't tracked at all. From time to time, a streamer will accidentally…
SG- on HNThis cannot be emphasized enough. Without taking donations into account the predicted revenue is going to be so far off from the truth that it's pretty much useless.
bramgg on HNIs the fact that subscriptions are recurring accounted for? If you get 1k subscriptions a month at 2.50 each, on month 2 you make 5k, no 2500 (assuming no drop off) Also, I would…
DanBlake on HN
Ad-block and ad-view assumptions are questionable
From 2 comments
"We considered that only 24% of the viewers get to see the ads put up by the streamer according to a poll." I don't know, I feel like that number just seems way too high.
heyheyhey on HNI feel like there is a large room for error here: * how many people who are watching a stream have some sort of adblock enabled? * ads on twitch are not deterministic: some…
chacham15 on HN
Subscriber counts appear wrong
From 1 comment
The subscriber count seems way off -- and subs don't appear in chat so I'm unsure how you're scraping from there. I know that imaqtpie has had single days where he got 700+ subs…
mmanfrin on HN
Monthly label missing and three decimals misleading
From 3 comments
Are you the original author? If so, maybe change "Money Earned" to something that mentions monthly? There appears to be no mention of monthly anywhere in the area of your graphs,…
markcerqueira on HNYour use of 3 decimal places is confusing. $ 914.132 Looks like either nine hundred or nine hundred thousand.
giarc on HNthe 3 decimal places made that number look very misleading...
brickmort on HN
Requests
Track donations in the estimates
From 2 comments
It's been mentioned before, but I feel a lot streamers (big or small) make more money off donations which isn't tracked at all. From time to time, a streamer will accidentally…
SG- on HNThis cannot be emphasized enough. Without taking donations into account the predicted revenue is going to be so far off from the truth that it's pretty much useless.
bramgg on HN
Show breakdown by game and for multi-game streamers
From 1 comment
I would be interested in seeing how this varies across different games and also for some of the larger general twitch streamers who play multiple games. There is a lot of money…
kmnc on HN
Questions
Whether recurring subscriptions are counted
From 2 comments
Is the fact that subscriptions are recurring accounted for? If you get 1k subscriptions a month at 2.50 each, on month 2 you make 5k, no 2500 (assuming no drop off) Also, I would…
DanBlake on HNHi Dan, nope the recurrence is not accounted, I didn't have any way of capturing it :)
malahay on HN