Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales

Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by criddell on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:41PM (#18591569)

How did you generate the random example? If you do it again, I'd be shocked if you got a 100k/day example.

I would guess there's a very, very long tail of channels that have a very small number of videos and essentially no views.

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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by Dayshine on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:56AM (#18598249)

That channel is ranked around 20,000... It's in the long tail.

I picked an example of someone who does it full time.

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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by criddell on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:17AM (#18599562)

With hundreds of millions of channels, it's pretty darned close to the head.

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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by Dayshine on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:56AM (#18617229)

Sure... but what's the value of a channel with no views in this example?

It won't be monetised, so you can't really compare it to TV?

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