I think you are downplaying your influence on its sales. The shoutouts on air and on twitter were likely a very large push. Maybe your variant cover wasn't what drove it, but the shoutout kicked it down the hill.
Which brings me to my next point. Your live stream view numbers have dropped off a little from the past, but are not reflective of your channel size. Does your audience just use your channel or social media presence as a heads up of new comics coming out then cut and run when they have that info? You audience seems to only engage with the short videos in any large numbers. The sales numbers for the comics seem larger than your typical livestream size. Would it be a good idea to set up an subscriber email list that solely emails fans to give them a run down on new comic releases for the week that are comicsgate related? Also have you polled your audience to figure out how the majority of them hear about new comic releases? That information would be helpful if you are trying to get people's eyes on a new campaign more effectively.
The audience has kind of gravitated to certain nodes for video types. A Lot of the periphery channels from yours see pitiful numbers and the audience seems to only want to see your channel for heads up on comic releases. WoldClassBS seems to catch the brunt of the Starwars views, Geeks+Gamers seems to catch a large number for movie related stuff. Then you have people like TUG and Yellow Flash who jumped ship to the anime community to see growth since their video view numbers dumped down to only 1.2k views per video before capitalizing off of the anime audience. Just wondering if your group had any plans to catch more audience or are the periphery channels like Jon Malin just dead in the water at this point?
I think all Comics related channels are seeing a decline in interest. Even the big MEGA channels like ComicsExplained and Comicstorian aren't pulling in numbers...relative to them, Zack and I who have 5% of their sub count still get similar views.
So there's that, to start. Talking about comic books in a new video will probably max out your views at 40-50K, if the topic is interesting enough.
My livestreams get 800-2000 live viewers and then 15K rewatches. That's substantial enough to promote a lot of new comics, and I'm guessing a lot of CG backers hear about campaigns from either me or Zack. People have done polls on this in the past on twitter. It seems like if we promote a project, it'll surpass $25K in preorders, which is great.
I've offered the same advice to smaller channels that I believe in myself: Comic fans are fleeing, for myriad reasons. But they still like comics. You just have to go find where they're hiding now. STAR WARS, MTG, GoT, D&D, movies, specifically the MCU and DCEU...all of those fan communities are potentially interested in what we're doing. Speaking to them brings them back.
My problem is that I just can't do everything all at once. I love talking STAR WARS, but it's hard to follow the Lucasfilm newscycle and still pour 12 hours a day into drawing and writing comics, and then still do livestreams to promote everyone. All of these things are engines that need to be kept running or they slow down.
I have a family that likes to see me now and then.
But I hope that some of the other personalities, like Malin, Cecil, etc, develop skills to be able to promote IGG campaigns at the level Zack and I can. A few are bound to emerge. We'll see.
@FROG You don't own the comic book the Vamprella title you just did the cover you didn't write or draw it , and you are charging $20.00 a pop for a book that is 20 pages also will be mass produced. Why are you doing this it's not a collector's item.
I also think it's a scam for his pay piggies too
1. This is a standard practice in the industry. Doing "retailer variants" is common, and customers WANT them. In this case, I'm both the artist AND the retailer.
2. If by "mass produced" you mean "print to demand", hell yeah. We've sold almost 1000 so far. Each copy is going to a customer. Not sitting in a warehouse or a comic shop. Once I take down that IGG, it's over. And I'll do a new cover.
3. I'm doing this to make money from my characters and to create a business relationship with the 5th largest publisher in mainstream comics.
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