WyattSheepMask Posted March 6, 2025 Posted March 6, 2025 3 hours ago, SaitoRyo said: WWE have started a separate WCW Vault YouTube channel here. Fuckin’ yeah! ECW Vault can’t be far behind Quote
Dr. Alan Grant Posted March 6, 2025 Posted March 6, 2025 Hallelujah, I can continue my Nitro marathon if they plan on uploading all episodes in order. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 14 hours ago, 2Xtreme_lives said: The fact that all this is now going on youtube. I'd love to know the value and revenue they get from this content on youtube rather than the 9.99 people were paying and only watching old content etc I think we'd be quite surprised how much wwe gather from youtube over network Lister partly answered this in the old Network thread. I guess the issue is that we don't know what the revenue was from the old Network. I'd be very surprised if YouTube came anywhere close to it but you have to take into account that they're already making massive money off Peacock and Netflix compared to the Network alone and also they don't have the costs involved. So the archive becomes very much a minor part of it all that they can stick on any platform that doesn't cost them money. On 1/1/2025 at 5:38 PM, JNLister said: It's very hard to estimate as there's no fixed revenue-per-view rate. It depends on the length of the videos (longer = more ads shown), the type of video (people want to advertise to specific audiences, eg financial advice videos get more ad money) and the location of the audience (some wrestling stuff gets millions of views in India which earns hardly any ad revenue). The best guess seems to be, based on views so far, that WWE's annual revenue from the channel will be in the single millions rather than in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions.) Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 12 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said: ECW Vault can’t be far behind ECW seems far more "Netflix" than the rest of the wrestling. Looking forward to the thumbnails already - New Jack covered in blood, Balls on fire, Kimona's tits. Quote
abucalves Posted March 7, 2025 Posted March 7, 2025 This tweet was saying that an ECW channel seemed to be created the same day as the WCW channel, so guess it is coming at some point Quote
Merzbow Posted March 7, 2025 Posted March 7, 2025 Watching an old Thunder and it's funny how inconsistent they are with changing songs, Raven and Jericho are given the WWF treatment but Bret Hart is left with that truly awful WCW theme. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 16 hours ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Weight of numbers will make the difference for them where, no disrespect to WCPW they are not going to have the same reach as WWE. 16 hours ago, Merzbow said: True, but before the "Adpocalypse" they were doing surprisingly well. Either way, if it was still pre-2017 levels WWE would be making much more from these channels. At their height, WhatCulture was the second biggest wrestling channel on YouTube, second only to WWE. Most of that would be from their reviews and reaction videos rather than the actual WCPW shows, but it's hard to overstate quite how big WhatCulture actually was in the wrestling space for a while. That said, there was a report 5 years ago that estimated WWE were making $13 million annually from their main YouTube channel, and that's before the Vault. Considering it's basically money for old rope, I'm sure they're doing just fine. Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 6 minutes ago, BomberPat said: At their height, WhatCulture was the second biggest wrestling channel on YouTube, second only to WWE. Most of that would be from their reviews and reaction videos rather than the actual WCPW shows, but it's hard to overstate quite how big WhatCulture actually was in the wrestling space for a while. That said, there was a report 5 years ago that estimated WWE were making $13 million annually from their main YouTube channel, and that's before the Vault. Considering it's basically money for old rope, I'm sure they're doing just fine. Thank you Patrick. WhatCulture is something that basically passed me by, though some might say all culture had passed me by. I had no idea they were that big. It's not something that comes up in my YouTube algorithm, and considering the amount of other wrestling that does you would think it would. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 2 hours ago, Merzbow said: Watching an old Thunder and it's funny how inconsistent they are with changing songs, Raven and Jericho are given the WWF treatment but Bret Hart is left with that truly awful WCW theme. That's a copyright thing. Raven and Jericho's themes at the time were fairly obvious rip offs of Come As You Are by Nirvana and Evenflow by Pearl Jam. Bret's theme was just Bret's theme. Quote
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 3 hours ago, air_raid said: New Jack covered in blood They’ve just announced him for the new WWE2K game. So wouldn’t be surprised if he was a featured thumbnailer. Can’t remember if he is DLC down the line, but could see an ECW drop on Netflix or YouTube around that time. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 Who am I to doubt El Dandy? Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 Bret: How about Hypnosis? Gene: PSYCHOSIS! That bit still gets me every time. On 3/6/2025 at 5:15 PM, SaitoRyo said: WWE have started a separate WCW Vault YouTube channel here. Now we’re fucking talking! 8 hours ago, air_raid said: Balls on fire, Kimona's tits. Basically sums up every ECW fan’s experience the night she “danced atop the ECW arena”. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 7, 2025 Paid Members Posted March 7, 2025 27 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said: Basically sums up every ECW fan’s experience the night she “danced atop the ECW arena”. It’s the most carny thing I’ve heard about the business, I think. I can’t even remember what happened to put them in the “rain stops play” scenario, just that notion of Paul E squalking ”They’re getting restless! Kris, go out and strip. That oughta hold those SOBs.” Quote
wordsfromlee Posted March 7, 2025 Posted March 7, 2025 9 minutes ago, air_raid said: It’s the most carny thing I’ve heard about the business, I think. I can’t even remember what happened to put them in the “rain stops play” scenario, just that notion of Paul E squalking ”They’re getting restless! Kris, go out and strip. That oughta hold those SOBs.” I think it was done to fill time while they fixed the ring after the infamous clip of it collapsing when all those fans got in the ring after a Gangstas vs Public Enemy match. Quote
Chili Posted March 7, 2025 Posted March 7, 2025 *The ring broke. *Heyman convinced Kimona to dance on the pretence it wouldn't make air. *Heyman subsequently monetised and distributed it and teased it to push home video releases for years after with Kimona naturally never saw a penny of. *Awful prick! Quote
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