>>16476497>>16477881Doing "good as a company" is extremely vague and can't be answered like that
more and more tech companies are in the red for years in hope of huge profits in the future
small vtubing corpos are more a rich hobbyist thing than an actual business model right now as the costs are insanely higher than any revenue they get
I assume the CEO doesn't give themselves any salary in most cases but they have to pay the whole staff, even with low wages or assuming they don't hire anyone but get contractors, that's still a huge sum of money every month for a few managers, scouts, a few to run the number and do the paperwork and all
Then they pay the model some pretty expensive, advertisement, work out deals, coves, video production, clipping/highlights
It seems most mods are unpaid for now
Each company works differently
Tsunderia was the first real small corpo of relevance and they had to test the waters a lot and didn't spend as much as many, models were pretty low cost and it showed, they took in a pre existing indie (turned out the best of the gen), clearly cut down on management as slugma was like the only actually doing heavylifting running the numbers herself supporting every talent and being their therapist at once
Companies like Phase Connect and CyberLive seem to have a much bigger initial investment and are a bet on future benefits and growth, gotta be early in just in case it get bigger later
Cyberlive isn't as professional as PRISM or Phase Connect, but with 15-20% cut only, providing 3D model to their talent fast and allowing their talent to leave with model without even buying it out, they're almost too good to be true.
The growth is good, Lumi hard carried CyberLive early game despite a bunch of pretty annoying drama from their inexperience, and now Emma pulling numbers for them on YouTube.
In term of revenue Lumi is still carrying hard, Twitch is impossible to beat for money you make much, muuuch more from the same size fof fanbase because of how well they gamified sub gift and bits. For regular donations youtube 30% cut over streamlabs 0% cut is a bit annoying too.
Lumi being partner means much preferential cut on stuff like subs now. With the amount of subs Lumi is getting she's likely earning more than all the rest of cyberlive combined for now.
They're not really big on merch and merch is never that profitable unless you're big
In term of public image they had a rough start but I think it's getting better, Lumi once again is working pretty hard for networking and things like song Cover can be a great advertisement to a more casual audience.
tl;dr cyberlive is like other small corpos not profitable yet but their more hand free approach and being such a good deal for vtubers is definitely something that can be praised and is giving interesting results, they're not yet solidified but on a good path
also yeah cool managerlarp I know but I'm pretty confident on a few parts, no need to take my words for it of course
