Post by cjf on Jun 3, 2018 0:20:05 GMT
The recent jump in subscribers to the Jackie Evancho youtube channel was due to a new youtube feature for Official Artist Channels which merged the subscriber lists from JackieEvanchoVevo and JackieEvanchoTopic into the JackieEvancho channel. There is now only one subscriber list replacing the three separate ones.
support.google.com/youtube/answer/7336634?hl=en
“If you're an artist on YouTube and you have an Official Artist Channel, we will be merging subscribers from your related Topic Channel and Partner-provided channel (as relevant) onto your channel.”
Partner-provided channel = JackieEvanchoVevo.
The channel merge stats can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/jackie-evancho/UCCUOIPyrBN1uW8B_-p1VisQ?period=2018-05-01
5-3-2018
JackieEvancho: 88,185 subscribers
JackieEvanchoVevo: 122,949 subscribers
JackieEvancho:
5-3: 88,185 total subscribers
5-4: +25,341
5-5: +84,297
5-6: 197,823 total subscribers
88K(JE) + 123K(JEVEVO) = 211K so only about 13K (211-198) were apparently subscribed to both channels or about 11 percent of the Vevo subscribers.
That there was not more overlap between the subscriber lists was surprising so I took a look at other Official Artist Channel merges. These other channels show the same two day merge process and the same low overlap.
Taylor Swift showed at most a 7.6% overlap. Katy Perry 10%. Beyonce 22%.
In these cases the artist channel had a much lower subscription total and all the official videos were on the Vevo channel with a much higher subscription total. Jackie’s channel is different in that early on the official videos were on Vevo but then they switched to putting official videos on the JackieEvancho channel.
Given that these other artists show the same two day update process and the same low channel overlap I don’t see any reason to doubt that all of Jackie’s subscribers are legit.
If they are not all legit then someone figured out how to hack the two day merge process but that seems rather far fetched given all the data.
Here are details on the other artist channels:
TaylorSwift channel merge can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/taylorswiftvevo/UCANLZYMidaCbLQFWXBC95Jg?period=2018-04-01
4-17-2018
TaylorSwift: 2,174,162 subscribers
TaylorSwiftVevo: 28,447,936 subscribers
So the number of TaylorSwift subscribers was only 7.6 percent of the number of TaylorSwiftVevo subscribers.
TaylorSwift:
4-17: 2,174,162 total subscribers
4-18: + 275,952
4-19: +27,229,612
4-20: 29,679,816 total subscribers
Here is a view of the TaylorSwift channel from about a year ago before the channel merge process started showing the type of videos on this channel. It had lots of videos from awards shows, interviews, etc. The official videos were all on the Vevo channel.
web.archive.org/web/20170119224550/https://www.youtube.com/user/taylorswift/videos
KatyPerry
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/katy-perry/UCYvmuw-JtVrTZQ-7Y4kd63Q?period=2018-04-01
4-3-2018
KatyPerry: 2,860,280 subscribers
KatyPerryVevo: 26,948,296 subscribers
So the number of KatyPerry subscribers was only 10 percent of the number of KatyPerryVevo subscribers.
KatyPerry:
4-3: 2,860,280 total subscribers
4-4: +5,205,396
4-5: +20,798,778
4-6: 28,864,454 total subscribers
Beyonce
Two day merge from 3.5M to 15.9M can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/beyonc%C3%A9/UCuHzBCaKmtaLcRAOoazhCPA?period=2018-04-01
support.google.com/youtube/answer/7336634?hl=en
“If you're an artist on YouTube and you have an Official Artist Channel, we will be merging subscribers from your related Topic Channel and Partner-provided channel (as relevant) onto your channel.”
Partner-provided channel = JackieEvanchoVevo.
The channel merge stats can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/jackie-evancho/UCCUOIPyrBN1uW8B_-p1VisQ?period=2018-05-01
5-3-2018
JackieEvancho: 88,185 subscribers
JackieEvanchoVevo: 122,949 subscribers
JackieEvancho:
5-3: 88,185 total subscribers
5-4: +25,341
5-5: +84,297
5-6: 197,823 total subscribers
88K(JE) + 123K(JEVEVO) = 211K so only about 13K (211-198) were apparently subscribed to both channels or about 11 percent of the Vevo subscribers.
That there was not more overlap between the subscriber lists was surprising so I took a look at other Official Artist Channel merges. These other channels show the same two day merge process and the same low overlap.
Taylor Swift showed at most a 7.6% overlap. Katy Perry 10%. Beyonce 22%.
In these cases the artist channel had a much lower subscription total and all the official videos were on the Vevo channel with a much higher subscription total. Jackie’s channel is different in that early on the official videos were on Vevo but then they switched to putting official videos on the JackieEvancho channel.
Given that these other artists show the same two day update process and the same low channel overlap I don’t see any reason to doubt that all of Jackie’s subscribers are legit.
If they are not all legit then someone figured out how to hack the two day merge process but that seems rather far fetched given all the data.
Here are details on the other artist channels:
TaylorSwift channel merge can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/taylorswiftvevo/UCANLZYMidaCbLQFWXBC95Jg?period=2018-04-01
4-17-2018
TaylorSwift: 2,174,162 subscribers
TaylorSwiftVevo: 28,447,936 subscribers
So the number of TaylorSwift subscribers was only 7.6 percent of the number of TaylorSwiftVevo subscribers.
TaylorSwift:
4-17: 2,174,162 total subscribers
4-18: + 275,952
4-19: +27,229,612
4-20: 29,679,816 total subscribers
Here is a view of the TaylorSwift channel from about a year ago before the channel merge process started showing the type of videos on this channel. It had lots of videos from awards shows, interviews, etc. The official videos were all on the Vevo channel.
web.archive.org/web/20170119224550/https://www.youtube.com/user/taylorswift/videos
KatyPerry
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/katy-perry/UCYvmuw-JtVrTZQ-7Y4kd63Q?period=2018-04-01
4-3-2018
KatyPerry: 2,860,280 subscribers
KatyPerryVevo: 26,948,296 subscribers
So the number of KatyPerry subscribers was only 10 percent of the number of KatyPerryVevo subscribers.
KatyPerry:
4-3: 2,860,280 total subscribers
4-4: +5,205,396
4-5: +20,798,778
4-6: 28,864,454 total subscribers
Beyonce
Two day merge from 3.5M to 15.9M can be seen here:
www.kedoo.com/youtube/en/channel/beyonc%C3%A9/UCuHzBCaKmtaLcRAOoazhCPA?period=2018-04-01