Gamer Superstar - Chapter 199

Chapter 199: 199 – Stream End
For a stream that started with 34,000 people, seeing that number grow to over 50,000 made everyone on the production team very happy.

Normally, the first stream of someone who was already famous in another niche of streams would start with a lot of views from curious people, but this would quickly diminish as these people realized that watching streams is very different from just watching the videos of exactly what they were interested in.

But luckily, my stream went the other way!

Because of my interactions with the audience, the songs I was singing, and the recent drama I was involved in with Dark Pistol, the audience in the stream room kept growing.

To the point that in just 50 minutes of streaming, the audience was only going up with no sign of slowing down.

When I sang Boyfriend, the chat interactions became the most active, with dozens of emojis popping up on the screen non-stop!

And when I sang Too Sweet, it was the opposite, as the chat, which was extremely lively, went completely silent, possibly because the audience was just enjoying the song and its lyrics.

Since this was my first time singing this in public, I was very excited to see how they would react to this song, and to see the chat stop without any reaction was more reaction than I could ask for.

When the song finally ended, the messages that had stopped appearing in the chat came back in full force, with people commenting non-stop to say how they felt about this song.

[Woooah, this song is awesome!!!]

[Damn, I thought I’d never find a song to top Boyfriend on my palylist, but it looks like I found this!]

[I’ll take my whiskey neeaatt]

[I still prefer Boyfriend, but this song is awesome!]

[…]

There were so many comments that my eyes couldn’t keep up with how fast it was going.

So after a few seconds I just gave up and went back to interacting with the crowd while drinking some non-alcoholic whikey.

It tasted very similar to the original, which would be a good alternative for someone who couldn’t get drunk but still wanted to drink with friends.

Combining this song with this Whikey, I noticed the big smile on the face of the Jack Daniels representative who was standing next to Selena, obviously very pleased with the song I had sung.

And I could understand their side, because they wanted to partner with me because I had a song that quoted Jack Daniels in one line of the song, now I had released a song that clearly talked about whiskey several times in the chorus of the song!

Even if I didn’t mention their brand name in the song, since they had sponsored me for this concert, their brand would already be slightly merged with my image.

Not to mention the fact that it wouldn’t be impossible to extend this sponsorship beyond this show hehe.

But I had to put that thought aside as I focused back on the show and singing my songs.

The audience had grown to 56k viewers, the size of a gigantic stadium full of people listening to me, which gave me even more motivation to keep singing and dedicate myself to the quality of it.

The show wasn’t very long, only two hours in total, but the experience of singing like that was really nice.

To be honest, it wasn’t as much fun as singing in person in front of 200 people, because reading the reaction from a text or with emoticons wasn’t even close to hearing people singing my songs with me.

But just imagining that huge number of people watching me in their homes and watching me relax and enjoy the time was a different feeling.

“Thank you so much for your company tonight guys, I hope that when I do another show like this, you’ll be here to support me again.” I smiled into the camera as we ended the stream.

With the indication that the stream was over, I relaxed a lot and sat down in the nearest chair.

Two hours of concert was very tiring, and even more tiring when you had dozens of people with serious expressions around you and several light cannons pointed at your face.

When the lights finally went out, I felt like my face could finally relax.

“That show was amazing Noah…” Selena said with a smile as she handed me a bottle of ice water.

“Thanks…” I thanked her as I took the bottle of water from her hand and drank it all in one go.

Even though I had quenched my thirst by drinking the non-alcoholic Jack Daniels, it was still nothing compared to quenching my thirst with water.

“The Jack Daniels representative was extremely pleased with the show, so much so that as soon as the show was over, the first thing she did was call her supervisor to praise us.” Selena said with a satisfied smile on her face.

She looked in the direction of the woman who was talking on the phone with a smile on her face mixed with a serious expression.

“Hehe, I’m glad they liked it, I think this is an indication that if we do other shows like this in the future, the sponsorship amount will be higher, right?” I asked after finishing the whole bottle of water.

“Exactly.” Selena smiled. “Considering the success this show may have caused, it’s very likely that the next sponsorships will be much higher, since the first show was such a success, after that the only factor that will determine how much you’ll get is how frequent these shows will be, since doing a show like this every week could decrease public interest and possibly decrease revenue.”

I nodded, unlike the vlogs I post twice a week on my channel and get millions of views, this is because the content of each vlog is different, so the audience is interested in each video.

As for the shows, my songs wouldn’t change much from one week to the next, which would make the show very repetitive if it was done too often.

So the ideal would really be to do it less often than face-to-face concerts.

“How often do you think that would be ideal?” I asked.

“From what AJP has analyzed with other artists, doing shows like this once a month is the maximum frequency before it starts to damage the other sides of the artist’s career, but the ideal is once every two months.” She explained, surprising me.

“Why so long?” I asked.

“Because if the frequency is too high, people might see your show on the Internet and lose the desire to come and see you in person. And since most of a singer’s income comes from in-person concerts, it wouldn’t be the best choice to do something that could negatively affect that side.” She explained with a serious look on her face, which made me nod back at her.

That really made sense.

Even if 70% of the people didn’t miss the in-person shows, the 30% I would miss could be a huge loss for me, so it was better just not to do it that often.

I picked up my laptop and started reading the comments from the show on MeTube, and I had a huge smile on my face.

[That was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to, seeing BlackVelvet give themselves so much on stage and interact with the audience like that made me want to go see a gig in person even more!]

[When will Too Sweet be available on Spokify?! I want that song now!]

[Thanks for the show BlackVelvet, both my dad and I watched the show from start to finish, although he didn’t much like it when you sang ‘Boyfriend’ lmao!]

When the stream ended, I could see the total number of views, which was an incredible 751,000 views!!!

With a measurement of 40,000 online viewers on the stream at all times, the total amount of viewers on the stream was a huge number, something I imagined would happen, but not that big.

After all, it was understandable that the public wouldn’t watch the entire two hours of the stream non-stop.

There were a lot of people who actually watched the whole thing, but a lot of people only watched for a few minutes before leaving the stream to do other things.

So the attrition rate for the stream was very high.

To be able to maintain an average of 40,000 viewers was a great accomplishment, and when I looked at the revenue I was getting from that stream, I had a big smile on my face.

For the 750,000 views the stream got, I got a whopping $9,000!

This was all from views, people who saw ads during the stream, people who paid to join the channel, and people who donated any amount.

Streaming was extremely lucrative, even though my audience wasn’t focused on streaming.

If I was a real streamer with an audience that was really used to it, I’d probably get double or triple that amount.

But I was already happy with that, having more money was never too much hehe.