PixelBeat - release summary

Almost 2 weeks after the release of PixelBeat it's time to take a look at all the statistical data and feedback that I have received.

First, let's look at some numbers. At the moment, it has 7500 views on youtube, making it the 3rd most viewed movie on my channel. On May 14th, it was viewed 3153 times (afterspray had 4619 views on its release, and Zero had mare 217 views). It was downloaded 342 times and it was viewed 519 times on own3d.tv

Apart from ESReality (1820 views), the movie was spread to various websites, like rakaka.se (1485 views), cyberfight.ru (415 views), reddit (224 views) and many, many others.

The audience was mainly european with Sweden on top (1963 views), followed by Russia (842 views) and from the other side of the ocean - USA (580 views). Nearly all of the viewers were male. Only a handful of 3.4% of all of the views were made by female users. Keep in mind that these stats don't include views from unregistered users.

I made some cool comment clouds using tagxedo:




From YouTube:



and ESReality:


The comments were mostly positive, with little to none constructive criticism that I could use. Most of the negative comments apply only to a 8bit/pixel themed movie. Some didn't like the music, others didn't like the theme in general. Many pointed out that I shouldn't use a maximum detail in-game graphical setting and use something that makes the game sort of pixelated, and yeah I have to agree with them, I actually had that in mind before working on the movie but dropped the idea later on because it would take a lot of more time to incorporate it properly. Oh well, not much I can do about it now.. pixelbeat2 maybe?

The Afterspray - summary

On 26th of August 2010, exactly a year ago, I released my last movie - The Afterspray. So far it's my most successful one. Let me give you guys some numbers. Over the past year it accumulated over 32000 views on youtube.com and over 18000 views on own3d.tv, that equals over 50000 views in total and counting.

The number of downloads isn't as big but considering that not everyone is collecting quake movies and, sadly, people tend to watch only the stream, which is totally not the same thing as watching it from your hdd, but almost 2000 downloads, which makes 5 downloads per day on average, is enough to make me happy. :)

The movie was posted on various sites in many languages and most of the comments were positive. There also was a little bit of constructive criticism and I'll use it while editing my current project, which, by the way, will be very different from afterspray, which I made thinking about making something that the community will like, this around time it'll be about using an original idea/theme for the movie that I thought it would be cool to work on.

Anyway, if you haven't seen The Afterspray yet, or you watched it a long time ago, it's a nice opportunity to watch it again :)

afterspray - summary

Five days after releasing the movie, now that things calmed down, I'd like to sum everything up.

As I previously posted, the release exceeded my expectations by far. Which was a nice surprise =) Also, the majority of the comments were positive. At ESR the rating reached 8.3 with 175 votes (you can rate it from 0 to 10). On youtube it received 126 'likes' and only 3 'dislikes', also it was favourited 89 times. With all this said, I think it's safe to say that the video was received rather well.

Time for some stats, at the moment the video has 1034 downloads, over 10.000 views on YouTube and over 4.000 views on own3d.tv. 14.000 views is really a lot in such a short period of time and it's not all because I'm not counting views from different streams uploaded by other people.

It wouldn't get so much attention if it wouldn't be spread by people all over the world. It was posted on a lot of sites, initially I wanted to post links to all of them here but I realized it would take a lot of work :)

A nice thing is that my movie got to the featured movie page on own3d.tv (notice the most common typo that ppl do in my nickname)
Really nice to see something like that, although I'm not sure if it really increases the number of views significantly.


My movie also got some honours on YouTube, they're constantly changing and I'll probably make a post later when they'll improve (if they will :) ) Apart from that my profile got an award too "#85 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Poland". It will surely also change. We'll if it can get any higher. Also, if my memory works fine, a few days ago the profile award said something like #17 -most viewed (Today) - Poland, pretty cool. :)

I hope my future project will match the success of afterspray. We'll see about that. :)