12-24-2018, 09:13 PM | #1641 | |
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Try and survive solely on YouTube clips that fewer than 150,000 people watch. I dare ya. The idea of the YouTube clips, besides generating a tiny bit of ad revenue, would be to drive people towards the product -- not away from it. What the fuck did he do for the brand?!? You can say it is good and that you love it, and that's your shitty taste, but what growth have they actually fucking shown? They've lost ratings, TV deals and their YouTube videos don't seem to be able to make up for it, statistically. It's not like they're doing 1 million on YouTube and people just don't have the channel. |
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12-24-2018, 09:16 PM | #1642 |
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"Folks, we've got 200,000 YouTube views on this video of Sami Callihan doing a shit in the woods!"
*100,000 more people stop watching TNA* "We're a success! This is exactly what we wanted!" |
12-24-2018, 09:55 PM | #1643 | |
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As for their You Tube they just went over 2 million subscribers this year and over 50,000 Twitter followers. Compared to other companies they are way ahead in subscribers and views. This company also has TV deals in countries across the world. I don't think you understand the wrestling landscape like you think you do. |
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12-25-2018, 11:23 PM | #1644 | |
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The gap between New Japan World subscribers and TNA viewers is getting narrower and narrower. TNA still has some international deals, which is something they are probably praying to their Canadian owl god every day in thanks for. How lucrative are those deals? Probably not very. Will they be renewed? Possibly, but I know they got dropped hard over here years ago. And those international deals don't mean squat if you don't get domestic television, which seems to be the crawl they are heading towards. 50,000 Twitter followers. Jesus Christ. Cody Rhodes has 800,000. Do you consider Cody Rhodes to be 16x bigger than TNA on his own? The Being the Elite videos consistently get more YouTube hits than TNA, by the way. Like, 50% more on average. But sure, keep touting YouTube and Twitter off as markers for the company's growth as they lose television and viewers. "Ratings don't matter" is a bullshit cop-out used by WWE to justify why there is less interest in their product, and it's nice to see TNA fans doing the same when they cannot retain 10% of their initial audience. Don't let that be lost on you either -- TNA used to get 1.2 ratings. It used to have about 2 million people who were interested in it. Actually interested in it, not just wrestling fans passing through who hit a subscribe button and then never watch another video. TNA is losing ground whereas promotions like ROH and New Japan, very slowly mind you, are gaining it. It's not like it's even happening to everyone. It's fucking TNA. |
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12-25-2018, 11:29 PM | #1645 |
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MLW do about half as many YouTube views as TNA, by the way. Consider how young that promotion is compared to TNA. Also consider that they might only have 41,000 subscribers, but their videos actually get more traffic than that.
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12-25-2018, 11:31 PM | #1646 |
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Jim Cornette's podcasts on YouTube get 10% of what TNA's videos on YouTube get. To talk about what they are doing as an achievement is just...mind boggling.
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12-28-2018, 03:39 PM | #1647 |
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Although I will admit I'm somewhat BIAS for personal reasons (doing the match the Xplosion match should air in a couple of weeks ) I honestly don't think this was a BAD year for Impact. They have obviously restructured the company, smaller venues filled up for tv as opposed to huge areas with a small number of fans, they're looking to build new/ their own stars (Fallah, Rascals, Scarlet, Santana/ Ortiz and Su Yung) and using alot of "indie darlings" (Cage, Sami Callihan, Willie Mack, Johnny Impact/ Taya) to build a larger fanbase as opposed to the old trope they had been burdened with for years (OMG what's "recently released WWE Superstar" doing in the Impact Zone!!!!).
This is a very interesting time in pro wrestling, ROH is about to go through a major restructuring, TNA has been rebuilding with the (assumed) plan to expand again soon, all this talk of "All Elite Wrestling" and even big supposed changed to Lucha Underground next year. |
12-28-2018, 06:07 PM | #1648 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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12-31-2018, 12:25 PM | #1649 |
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01-03-2019, 01:57 PM | #1650 |
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So the match finally aired on Xplosion. I'm looking for a link to the Dec 29th episode to upload the match on here but can't find one. Help out one of your own and check out the match and if anyone finds a link to the match, please hit up your ol' buddy Titan and let me know
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01-03-2019, 02:21 PM | #1651 |
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Couldnt find anything either but I'll download the GWN later and check it out. Xplosion is free on it I believe. Are you billed as Titan for the match?
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01-03-2019, 02:55 PM | #1652 |
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Yea, we're in the first match, Pillars of Destiny vs 1% ers. I think you gotta sign up and put your credit card on it but it doesn't charge you for 30 days so you can cancel before
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01-03-2019, 03:18 PM | #1653 |
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I just had to sign up and there was a back button on the credit card info page. Match was good and I like the tag team. Don said on commentary that if he had anything to do with it you'd be back so that sounds good. Impact could use some more tag teams.
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01-03-2019, 04:01 PM | #1654 | |
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01-04-2019, 12:33 AM | #1655 |
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Found it, enjoy guys! |
01-04-2019, 04:06 AM | #1656 |
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Damn, this is wild. Between The Rascalz and oVe, and now Paul Titan, I feel like I "know" 7 people on Impact.
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01-05-2019, 08:14 PM | #1657 |
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01-06-2019, 02:32 PM | #1658 |
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01-06-2019, 02:35 PM | #1659 |
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01-06-2019, 07:41 PM | #1660 |
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Went with the throwback look for the ring set up.
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01-06-2019, 08:17 PM | #1661 |
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Prob will watch some of this... The last PPV was good
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01-06-2019, 08:20 PM | #1662 |
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Ultimate X match starting things off. Pretty good so far.
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01-06-2019, 08:24 PM | #1663 |
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Rich Swann won. Finish could have been better.
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01-06-2019, 08:32 PM | #1664 |
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Allie & Su Yung vs Kiera Hogan & Jordyn Grace is up now.
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01-06-2019, 08:47 PM | #1665 |
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01-06-2019, 08:48 PM | #1666 |
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Eddie vs Moose falls count anywhere off to a fast start.
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01-06-2019, 08:57 PM | #1667 |
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01-06-2019, 09:03 PM | #1668 |
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01-06-2019, 09:05 PM | #1669 |
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01-06-2019, 09:05 PM | #1670 |
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Good match, Sami Callihan vs Willie Mack is up next.
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01-06-2019, 09:07 PM | #1671 |
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DO YOU WANT TO TASTE THE TUNA????
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01-06-2019, 09:17 PM | #1672 |
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Last few Impact PPVs have had a really good atmosphere...
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01-06-2019, 09:18 PM | #1673 |
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Good match, Willie kicked out at 1 alot until Sami put him away. |
01-06-2019, 09:23 PM | #1674 |
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Monster's Ball time. Eli Drake vs Abyss
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01-06-2019, 09:32 PM | #1675 |
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NWA letting their champ lose to the Bat Guy.
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01-06-2019, 09:33 PM | #1676 |
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Abyss trying to murder Eli Drake via piece of wood with giant nails coming out of it
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01-06-2019, 09:40 PM | #1677 |
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Monsters Ball was good. Didn't think Eli would take the tacs. Alot of headshots tonight.
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01-06-2019, 09:41 PM | #1678 |
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LAX vs Lucha Bros up now. Probably be best match of the night.
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01-06-2019, 09:49 PM | #1679 |
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Feel like this is the first cool / non-shitty "tope suicida" I have seen...
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01-06-2019, 09:50 PM | #1680 |
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This match is sweet...
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