>>79238622>the difference is significant enough to matter even when factoring the discrepanciesAnon, there are two problems with your general point
Problem 1:
>you operate under the assumption that youtube ads makes for ANY significant proportion of these girls revenueIt doesn't. Even if Aki whole audience was entirely from regular videos (no shorts), entirely western, with a CPM around 7USD per 1000 views, her channel revenue for ads in 30 days would be around 18k USD.
(Notice that this number, 18k USD, is the absolute best case scenario for Aki's 2M or so VOD Views maxing every stat in this hypothesis: best audience, best type of videos, rounded up)
Any of the Holo girls can move ten times that in bday merch alone. Aki herself, here is her number from 2022 (
>>19823177)
>Aki Rosenthal Birthday Celebration 2022>Birthday Merch Complete Set Limited Edition 1247 $134.00 $167,098.00Her limited merch alone, in 2022, would match or beat the most optimistic estimate of her VOD Views revenue for the year and that's one merch run.
Problem 2:
>You operate from the assumption her VOD Views improved in a significant enough fashion for it's revenue to offset the losses in "direct revenue" (donations, merch)I'm not the anon keeping track on her donation numbers but, from what that anon have posted, she took a big hit and I'm not seeing any improvement in her VOD Views big enough to offset that.
All in all: ad revenue is such a small part of these girls revenue that it would be unconscionable to believe they would make any deliberate strategic move to get a higher ad revenue at the expense of direct sales revenue.
There is a much simpler explanation that doesn't involve any of that
>Aki likes to play those games, with those people and her revenue in Hololive is big enough for her to eat the pay cut to do what she prefersIt's a much simpler explanation
