>>107161218The corpo vtuber economy is consolidating after its booming years. Low entry barriers make it less viable to join a corpo aside from few very specific situations and the hololive model that has been adopted by most agencies therefore does not work anymore (free model upon joining, company keeps IP etc.). Additionally to that there is no real economic incentive anymore to start a new corp either considering you would have to invest a lot in marketing measures to get your name out and find some worthy talents that are willing to compromise as well
>I predict more graduations and more corpos closing down, Hololive will be the last one standing in the west, but at some point it will go under too.Honestly, now that Brave is consolidationg its branches as well, there aren't all that many corpos left worth mentioning (not including some micro corpos that exist in the deep underground). Hololive, Holostars, Niji EN, Phase, whatever will be left of Brave, First Stage Productions are the ones that come to my mind if we are just looking at the English speaking oriented ones with sizeable reach. All other names have folded, have announced they will fold or are just so small that they simply do not appear on any map. I don't think corpos will disappear altogether though. There will be niche situations that will make them worth considering in individual cases, but longterm I see the future somewhere between full indie and indies organized in associate groups with a supporting management team in the background.
