>>1889928I can't exactly make the call for what other people are interested in, but I can agree that max. live is the far more focused upon number for large events. Especially for things like concerts, sports games, even things like the state union, the number of people appearing at the event is focused upon a lot more.
Beyond a few very popular streamers, vods are very inconsequential on Twitch compared to YouTube. You have to highlight vods greater than 2 months old and there's next to no way to search through unless you use a 3rd party. Not only that, but when someone is looking for something to watch on Twitch, people are looking for someone who's live and, partly because of the search, you rarely get someone looking through vods unless they already know the specific streamer. Which is also why they sort by live viewers. Twitch also incentivizes monetizing through donations, live ads, and subs. It's only when you start building a brand that you might even consider monetizing through a t-shirt, mugs, or other stuff, and most streamers still don't bother with that.
Youtube isn't foremost a live streaming site. Vod views make up a huge amount of views on videos of live streamers, not to mention the main function of the site being video hosting. I believe in the context of the thread discussed, it was about whether YouTube would promote your video through the algorithm or not, to which unique viewers, alongside views/unique viewer, is quite important and max. live is less important. The other thing is that Cover and Ichikara are brands now, not just a collection of live streamers. They make a majority of their money selling goods, tickets, sponsors etc. over superchat or ads. Max. live is much less important to measuring how many people are wiling to buy a person's goods, over how much reach, or how large of an audience they have, vod viewers being included in that audience.
Now, when it's time for a concert like Bloom, Fes2, NijiFes, max. live has a much stronger argument for being the more important stat.
