I have always heard that YG groups are dominant in YouTube and I think that used to be the case till 2023, after that Youtube changed it algorithm to favour shorts creators (The top 50 YT subscribed channel have atleast 5 channels which only upload shorts). This algorithm change hurt music videos the most, Kpop being so reliant on YT for reaching new audience through their glamourous music videos and dominating it with 100's of millions of views with fans mass streaming them made it seem like kpop was on an upward trajectory but after that algorithm change kpop industry got hit the most. Also YouTube has cut down on bot views meaning one can only watch a video max of 5 times (as far as I remember reading about this 2-3 months ago, I don't remember where I reading it) so I think kpop fans should slow down on this mass streaming because it's not adding any views and you are wasting time. One another thing to add don't comment "emoji" is also a very dumb thing, emoji does not freeze views, YT has just changed the algorithm to favour shorts to compete with TikTok and in the wakeup of short attention span of people. Now coming back to the topic YG groups were dominant force on YouTube as they YG had the main kpop market SEA on lock with people mass streaming the videos but now that mass streaming is filtered as not views by youtube and does not add to streams YG has resorted to insane amounts of ad views. Just as SM created this best vocalists in kpop superiority for their fans to brag about, HYBE with best performers in kpop to brag about, YG stans had most amount of YT views superiority that they used to brag about and this was also the selling point of YG groups. Now that Youtube has favoured short content over long form content YG has to rely on insane amount of ADS to maintain because this was large part of YG fans culture, being dominant on YouTube. I understand doing it for Music videos, Babymonster Hot sauce has insane amount of ads, but for dance practice video you cannot tell me this isn't their way still maintaining this facade of YG groups are dominant on YouTube. Izna label and TBL groups also uses a lot of ads, TBL also hides likes on their channel like you cannot be more obvious. I think all the kpop labels need to stop buying ads because in all honesty ads don't bring in much fans but a good song or a good album with your traditional promotion tactics, like performing anywhere for fans for free during album promotion, even 1 free show in 2-3 countries just like how popstars used to do it will bear better results and increase fan engagement than this tradition of buying insane amount of ads to maintain this facade. Facade why? Because this not bearing results in ticket sales, Stacy and Babymonster ticket sales were on sale as low as 40 usd because they were not selling out. While one tour that just got announced has queue of over 100k on ticketmaster, that group could literally sell out stadiums in all venues and it's their 1st tour. All this is because of great marketing by their team and not pumping money in ads but actual traditional marketing, I am not going to name the group because than it would seem like I am trying to drag other groups and uplift that group which is not the intention of my post. I just made this post because whenever I see a kpop music video fans are in the comments talking about let's stream, do not comment emojis, here to stream after sleeping like it's some kind of job (crazy thing is it's counting as bot views and not registering lol) Also there are certain group of people dragging some groups for ads (izna comments are filled with such drags), some (itzy) for low views while YG is maintaining it's facade and it's their fans dragging group for views while YG is running insane amount of ads. submitted by /u/tooshydooshy [link] [comments]
