Number Fans:
Here are a few more stats for our resident statisticians to mull over. We used Google Analytics to track visits and other non-personal data during the last 2+ years of TV_Vote.
According to the Big G, over 427,799 Unique Visitors came to our site between May 2006 and August 2008. In the first full week of tracking - May 13-20 2006 we had 15,890 visits. In the first full month of Google stats - May 9-31 2006 - we had 52,783 visits.
In the final full week of TV_Vote - August 3-9 2008 - we had 66,566 visits and in the final full month - July 1-31 2008 we had 251,787 visits.
If you click on TV_Vote Xtras on the TV_Vote site menu, I've provided an Excel spreadsheet with some details, including a list of 190 visitor countries and another of 5000 cities.
If anybody has stats they'd like to contribute, feel free to post here or send me a spread and I'll make it available on the TV_Vote site.
:o)>
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
TV_Vote: The Aftermath
Hi, TV_Voters!
The voting is over and the final totals are posted at http://richlabonte.net/tvvote for all of you and future television and web poll historians.
It was a fine battle and well fought by all! The debate goes on as to whether it was a "good day to die", but the poll ended on a high note as I hoped. Our last week was the most active in the history of the poll - the highest number of recorded visits to our site was 11,123 on August 6th, one week before the final day of voting, with 3,792 visitors.
68,528 visits from August 6th to August 12th (the last full day of voting), with 10,476 "absolutely unique" visitors, 219,881 page views and 10.43% new (first-time) visitors.
Most of our visitors came in directly by the end of the poll, but fan forums and sites sent 12,456 visits (out of 68,528) from 271 different sources in the final week, with the CBS boards sending us 29% of those (thank you, Jericho and Moonlight fans.)
Those 68,528 visits came from 93 countries/territories, with the majority (71%) from the US, followed by Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, France, Poland, Spain, Russia and The Netherlands.
Not bad for a little fan site without corporate sponsors (or a budget, for that matter.)
To paraphrase Raycheetah, here's what I learned from this experience:
Fan Power is a real energy. We proved it and tapped it without help from the television industry or corporate powers that be. Maybe the industry should try doing the same instead of relying on the statistic factories and dubious methods of corporate pollsters who are fighting for their own survival amidst an ever-widening array of entertainment delivery systems.
Internet polls are not scientific, but they can produce a relatively accurate measurement if you get millions of people to vote, demonstrated by the presence of two classic westerns in our Top 5.
TV fans are more passionate about TV dramas than sitcoms or talk or game shows. Look at our results for proof. Even classic comedies like I Love Lucy or hugely popular recent shows like Seinfeld barely scored. Johnny Carson got 100 votes.
Dramas create lasting longtime loyalties with viewers. Out of our Top 5 shows, two left the airwaves over thirty years ago and of the three that produced new episodes in the 21st Century, only one is still on the air and is based on a popular series from thirty years ago.
The infamous 18-34 age demographic touted by corporate pollsters does not apply to television fan loyalty. The number 10 show in our poll, Combat!, has not aired on national television since 1967 and still had enough fans to score 244,131 votes. Although some of those Combat! fans might be DVD buyers, it's probably safe to say that most Combat! fans are over 34 years old.
Modern campaigns to defeat network cancellation misjudgments and bring back popular television series in some form are real and growing. Firefly remains the best recent example of success in this regard - and the Firefly-Whedon fanbase is a mighty and fearful force indeed - but Jericho and Moonlight fanbases show how the trend is escalating. Jericho shot up our list in an impressively short time and by the end of the poll, Moonlight had more individual voters coming in daily than any other single show in the poll's history. Scores of shows in our poll inspired similar large scale fan response when they were cancelled: Blood Ties, Farscape, Angel, Roswell, Babylon 5 and older shows like Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Dark Shadows. These fans don't forget.
Ultimately, the television audience should have a greater voice in network programming decisions - and TV fans will actively campaign for that voice.
Direct contact between television networks and fans is advisable and the networks should be looking for new ways to communicate with their viewers because the battle for the airwaves has just begun.
Fan Power!
:o)>FLAtRich
The voting is over and the final totals are posted at http://richlabonte.net/tvvote for all of you and future television and web poll historians.
It was a fine battle and well fought by all! The debate goes on as to whether it was a "good day to die", but the poll ended on a high note as I hoped. Our last week was the most active in the history of the poll - the highest number of recorded visits to our site was 11,123 on August 6th, one week before the final day of voting, with 3,792 visitors.
68,528 visits from August 6th to August 12th (the last full day of voting), with 10,476 "absolutely unique" visitors, 219,881 page views and 10.43% new (first-time) visitors.
Most of our visitors came in directly by the end of the poll, but fan forums and sites sent 12,456 visits (out of 68,528) from 271 different sources in the final week, with the CBS boards sending us 29% of those (thank you, Jericho and Moonlight fans.)
Those 68,528 visits came from 93 countries/territories, with the majority (71%) from the US, followed by Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, France, Poland, Spain, Russia and The Netherlands.
Not bad for a little fan site without corporate sponsors (or a budget, for that matter.)
To paraphrase Raycheetah, here's what I learned from this experience:
Fan Power is a real energy. We proved it and tapped it without help from the television industry or corporate powers that be. Maybe the industry should try doing the same instead of relying on the statistic factories and dubious methods of corporate pollsters who are fighting for their own survival amidst an ever-widening array of entertainment delivery systems.
Internet polls are not scientific, but they can produce a relatively accurate measurement if you get millions of people to vote, demonstrated by the presence of two classic westerns in our Top 5.
TV fans are more passionate about TV dramas than sitcoms or talk or game shows. Look at our results for proof. Even classic comedies like I Love Lucy or hugely popular recent shows like Seinfeld barely scored. Johnny Carson got 100 votes.
Dramas create lasting longtime loyalties with viewers. Out of our Top 5 shows, two left the airwaves over thirty years ago and of the three that produced new episodes in the 21st Century, only one is still on the air and is based on a popular series from thirty years ago.
The infamous 18-34 age demographic touted by corporate pollsters does not apply to television fan loyalty. The number 10 show in our poll, Combat!, has not aired on national television since 1967 and still had enough fans to score 244,131 votes. Although some of those Combat! fans might be DVD buyers, it's probably safe to say that most Combat! fans are over 34 years old.
Modern campaigns to defeat network cancellation misjudgments and bring back popular television series in some form are real and growing. Firefly remains the best recent example of success in this regard - and the Firefly-Whedon fanbase is a mighty and fearful force indeed - but Jericho and Moonlight fanbases show how the trend is escalating. Jericho shot up our list in an impressively short time and by the end of the poll, Moonlight had more individual voters coming in daily than any other single show in the poll's history. Scores of shows in our poll inspired similar large scale fan response when they were cancelled: Blood Ties, Farscape, Angel, Roswell, Babylon 5 and older shows like Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Dark Shadows. These fans don't forget.
Ultimately, the television audience should have a greater voice in network programming decisions - and TV fans will actively campaign for that voice.
Direct contact between television networks and fans is advisable and the networks should be looking for new ways to communicate with their viewers because the battle for the airwaves has just begun.
Fan Power!
:o)>FLAtRich
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