>>89351103WAIT what?? They have never shown an hours watched graph before for EN! We can be confident that Cover has more accurate hours watched numbers than us, especially if they are willing to put it on an official report to investors.
Take a look at May 2023, the fifth column, Cover is reporting a little over 6 million hours watched and a little under 200 total streams. Isn't 6 million rather high for a pre-Advent, grim era EN? Usual tables anon comes to our rescue, having calculated hours watched by multiplying hours streamed by the visible average CCV
>>50530857On our end, we have the correct number of streams: 160 public streams and 19 members streams, which lines up to be a little under 200. If we have the same number of streams, the only difference must be that our calculation for average CCV is wrong. But by how much?
I am overestimating our watched hours more because I multiplied Gura's peak CCV by hours streamed per VOD, since she had sub 5 streams in May. That leaves us with around 3.1 million hours watched on our end, which is barely over HALF of what Cover is reporting.
Cover must be including watched hours for members streams because they are counting them in the # of streams, but it is impossible for 19 members only streams to account for a difference of 50%. Let's be very optimistic and assume members streams have half of the viewership of public ones, given that they make up just about 10% of the total number of streams, we can add approximately 5% to the total number of hours watched on our end. That still only accounts for 150k hours, nowhere near the 3 million or so missing hours watched!
That means we only saw about 50% of the numbers Cover did.
Let's compare to today's numbers because we all know they partially unculled after November 2023 but fudged it up again a few months later.
On their graph, the last column, September 2024 is a little under 11 million watched hours. vstats reported their calculation for hours watched of September 2024 here:
https://x.com/Holo_Data/status/1841026011783446805 with approximately 8 million watched hours over 355 public streams.
This is much better than it was in the past, but accounting for members only streams, we're looking at about only 75% of what Cover is reporting.
In conclusion, based on the differences between the numbers we see and the numbers Cover is reporting, we can estimate that the cull during the pre-November 2023 time period was around 50% and the cull nowadays is around 25%.
