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A look at Youtube trailer views for E3 2016
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Gwent is an ad in front of other videos and it's nowhere near these numbers.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, it's really strange how little of an impact this Gears 4 trailer seems to have had.
Sure, but I mean Horizon was already known about. Recore was already known about (Edit - seems this one might be artificially inflated via ads). The Last Guardian and Battlefield 1 and Detroit were already known about. Gears' number of views is just oddly low.
And yet God of War or Horizon for example smash that notion.
Well, that actually happens very often. In fact, the official upload (in the xbox official youtube chanel) has way less views than the one in OP. I think OP picked the trailers with more views regardless of official chanels or not.
In regards to that, there is something I just found it. Alongside the official upload of the gameplay demo of God of War in the PlayStation chanel (the one in the OP, with almost 8 million views), there is another upload from the GameNewsOfficial chanel on Youtube, that managed to reach 2.8 million views too! Here:
https://youtu.be/SljB_5WWOho
Which means that when aggregated we have almost 11 million views for the God of War E3 demo just with these two videos.
Ding, ding. I think we finally found our E3 winner
Insane number of views. I think it would be interesting to amalgamate all of the viewing figures together, but that would take ages for 30+ games, and at what point do we stop - maybe the top 3 view numbers per game? And then keeping it updated is a pain as well.
Yeah, the OP is really useful and I find these statistics incredibly interesting, but without keeping it updated its usefulness is limited.
I'm not fan of the old Kratos (he'd served his purpose but I don't want any more games with him), but this new character is very far removed from standard Kratos and exactly what I'd hoped for. Just that moment where he reaches out to touch his son and show a moment of affection before he hesitates and doesn't is probably better characterisation than anything he had in GoW 2 or 3.
I liked it, but it was so brief and I wanted more. The game has been in development for over 3 years and is supposed to be launching in ~9 months, so goddamn I wish they'd have something of actual substance to show by now!
Ghost Recon Wildlands has definitely been an ad, as has Watch Dogs 2 and Mafia 3 (I've seen them all). The two Ubi games have been much more regular from what I've seen though. And apparently Recore has been running as an ad as well, which would make sense from the number of likes vs. views.
papertoonz
Member
holy shit at GoW getting so high on views man it looks like it's going to pass battlefield 1 any time soon
Wow, everyday you learn something on GAF. Had no idea the ads counted as views, and you guys brought to my attention the views/like & dislike proportion and it is really weird.
Even a trailer like Halo Wars 2 which has over 4M views only has 25K likes with a bunch of trailers which have less than 2M having double the likes of that
Even a trailer like Halo Wars 2 which has over 4M views only has 25K likes with a bunch of trailers which have less than 2M having double the likes of that
No one mentioning Eagle Flight is right at the bottom? Thought it was a weird choice of game for Ubisoft(?) to have on stage. With the cost of a VR set-up renaming pretty high at the moment, it's a bit much to assume multiple friends will have the same type of headset for multiplayer games at this point. At the same time I'm guessing it would have to be online as I can't imagine the set up situation being the LAN/local way they seemed to be implying. Given how much PC power you'd need for each headset.
Triggerhappytel
Member
That must be bolstered by ads then, surely? Later when I'm back in the office I was going to drop all these numbers in a spreadsheet and try to get an average on number of Likes vs. number of views. I find this stuff fascinating - this is why I have a job where I work with statistics!
Yeah, totally feels like it was inflated by ads, not in the way Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs 2 got, but sure ads helped to get to almost 4.5M
Technology era and peoples hope the second game will be better like assassins creed!
Wow God of War is climbing up to nearly 9 million in a week. That's pretty damn impressive . If it continues to stun at each showing and releases with some great reviews and an ad campaign like UC4's it could be a huge showing, maybe blowing out even UC4 itself.
DarkLordMalik
Member
God of War 3 opened to more than 1.1 million in debut month NPD which is higher than Uncharted 4 <1 million on PS4. The series has potential to do well in USA atleast.
Bitch Pudding
Member
God of War is less than 150.000 views behind Battlefield 1, gap was more than 1 million in OP. Brace yourself BF, Kratos is coming.
Michael Armbrust
Member
Here's an auto updating list of views I do every year: http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=3859
Doesn't have 3rd party but should save people a lot of time fetching views.
Doesn't have 3rd party but should save people a lot of time fetching views.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Okay so which of these videos got pushed as ads?
Jawbreaker
Member
OP is slacking.
Sony haven't cared about GT in years, each game has seen a massive drop in quality and promotion. This GT Sport crap will be the first game that sells less than a Forza game - book it!
lol at gif
GT will still sell more, probably not by that much though. Racing genre is on the outs all around.
ThatStupidLion
Member
man FFXV! those numbers seem awful for what FF once was
FFXV interest reached a fever pitch in 2014. Then they started fucking up by releasing a demo to mixed reception (and tied down to some shit game probably didn't help either). After that they've just been releasing awkward-looking media at best. And frankly the game just took too long to come out after it was originally re-revealed in 2013, people have moved on to getting hyped for FF7 I think haha.
Squeenix's plan for making FFXV sell is just THROW MONEY AT IT based on their Uncovered show. Not sure how well that plan is going to turn out.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Seems alright for a terrible trailer.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
God of War looks like it might hit 10 million at this rate.
Jawbreaker
Member
I'm curious why the Horizon: Zero Dawn trailer with 6.5m views has so many dislikes. The ratio of likes to dislikes on the gameplay demo is completely at odds with it.
I might be wrong but I think that story trailer is being shown as an ad heavily (which contributes to views) and thus there is a lot of people who don't care about the game being forced to watch the trailer and thus clicking through and disliking. I could be completely wrong though.
The ones in which there is a disproportion on views and likes compared to others with similar numbers.
For example: the Watch Dogs 2 trailer has 44k likes compared to 186k and 301k likes from God of War and Battlefield 1. Yet it is almost at 8 million views, almost the same as these other two. So Watch Dogs is clearly inflated with ad views.
I think the biggest example is Ghost Recon: Wildlands though: almost 3.8 million views, but just 3k likes. We can assume the absolute majority of these views were from ads.
How exactly do you dislike an ad?
Maybe clicking the ad doesn't take them straight to the trailer, but they could go directly to the video after seeing what they found to be an annoying ad and dislike it. Or just click the ad and get taken to the website, click the trailer embed there and dislike? It's probably a stretch but that's what I see being most likely. There's not really another explanation for that insane amount of dislikes (in comparison to other popular trailers).
Edit: Actually disregard that, I think it's just bots largely, in the comments there is a huge amount of spam.
That seems plausible but I've never heard of people going out of their way to dislike an ad so who knows.
Looking at the comments (where there is heaps of spam) it's probably bots. So disregard that stretch of a theory lol.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Xbox presense on YouTube is terrible compared to Sony in general. Nearly 5 million subscribers compared to just over 1.5 .
And that's ignoring the sonyplayStation/PlayStation EU + PS Jap channels which have over a million subs between them.
It's not the only reason, but it's a pretty obvious one.
I'm sorry but this is actually a very poor metric of anything. I would want to know how much money each of them spent on youtube advertising for each trailer.
I had just read an article on how amazing the Xbox One S trailer was doing on youtube and then I watched a youtube video and was basically forced to watch the Xbox One S trailer beforehand. LOL. And yes those views count as an actual video view.
I had just read an article on how amazing the Xbox One S trailer was doing on youtube and then I watched a youtube video and was basically forced to watch the Xbox One S trailer beforehand. LOL. And yes those views count as an actual video view.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
Updated a bunch of these numbers on behalf of the OP. (or because I was doing it anyway)
Stereogatari
Banned
Crash Bandicoot doubters can eat that.
Wow, God of War should surpasses Battlefield 1 today already
This may be a legit way to measure an aspect of enthusiams for the games that are lower down on the list.
But for the big boys that are up at the top, this is a reflection of efficacy in marketing teams.
The mechanisms for driving a huge number of views on YouTube videos are known and coordinated between YouTube and the companies that publish these games.
This also doesn't cover rips, Facebook views (which are becoming a big deal in their own way), native twitter views.
As far as YouTube, you're much better off looking at the Like/Dislike ratio, number of comments, or other factors which indicate actual engagement instead of ad served etc.
But for the big boys that are up at the top, this is a reflection of efficacy in marketing teams.
The mechanisms for driving a huge number of views on YouTube videos are known and coordinated between YouTube and the companies that publish these games.
This also doesn't cover rips, Facebook views (which are becoming a big deal in their own way), native twitter views.
As far as YouTube, you're much better off looking at the Like/Dislike ratio, number of comments, or other factors which indicate actual engagement instead of ad served etc.
I knew God of War was popular but that's insane. Good to see Zelda and Spider-Man so high too.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
God of war is such a long gameplay video too that's massively impressive
sems4arsenal
Member
Won't be even close.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Beards sell.
Storm Kyleis
Member
God of War is probably first if you count the PlayStation EU version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRhzFqA1f7o
Zelda: Breath of the Wild is also nearing one million on Nintendo Japan alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPidZXIuzs
Zelda: Breath of the Wild is also nearing one million on Nintendo Japan alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPidZXIuzs
There is also this upload of the God of War gameplay demo on GameNewsOfficial, with almost 3.4 million views:
https://youtu.be/SljB_5WWOho
So yeah, God of War is by far the first. When counted together it is at 11.5 million views.
I love it that the naysayers are still in denial about the remakes saying that they're not "new".
They can eat crow for all I care.
You are a holy man James
In the game of Youtube views you either win or die
Ploid 3.0
Member
I was hoping this was updated, wow Battlefield One.
This is all crazy. E3 seems like such a good place or time to reveal or start advertising your games (especially before E3 like WD2).
Ploid 3.0
Member
They changed the game. I was kind of burned out on GOW, but this new game has a lot of freshness to it that I don't know what will happen, and that got my attention.
JuanLatino
Member
I we combine all God of War Trailers (or atleast the most viewed ones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_GCPaKywg (8.345.367)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXGq_AKsp9s (595.679)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZWoryTWSU (487.235)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fCtP6keKQk (134.502)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_wIEHCYz_U (347.291)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljB_5WWOho (3.381.431)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zVY3VGKF4 (1.036.399)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq10gi-biL8 (720.588)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYov4JWz6F4 (449.231)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlW175pnJjI (328.270)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbg6bOgeY4 (324.986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGPTg4zPc8 (229.387)
We get 16.380.366 Views together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_GCPaKywg (8.345.367)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXGq_AKsp9s (595.679)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZWoryTWSU (487.235)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fCtP6keKQk (134.502)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_wIEHCYz_U (347.291)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljB_5WWOho (3.381.431)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zVY3VGKF4 (1.036.399)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq10gi-biL8 (720.588)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYov4JWz6F4 (449.231)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlW175pnJjI (328.270)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbg6bOgeY4 (324.986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGPTg4zPc8 (229.387)
We get 16.380.366 Views together