IVE's recent era confirms is impossible to do well in youtube without using ads

From one of the strongest 4th gen groups in youtube views to barely scratch 20M views after weeks, kakao and starship didn't used ads this era? or despite the ads the numbers are this low? Even if IVE couldn't catch the attention of kpop fans and general public this time numbers are absurdly low, groups like loona, dreamcatcher and gfriend used to pull numbers like this or better 2 or 3 years ago, I watched with my own eyes how Baddie did 7M in 7 hours but after that only 3M were added, youtube has become a ridiculous platform.

Has youtube rigged their own platform to point the only viable way to do well is to buy ads directly from them?

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JYP didn't used ads for jihyo and onces could barely do 15M views after a month, misamo was doing barely better doing like 20M after 2 weeks without ads but when japanese onces bought ads the music video gained 50M of views in like 3 weeks. Even armys with the biggest and most organized fandom in the world can barely scratch 100M views for the most popular members like jimin and jungkook unless the song go mega popular, v who is the 3rd most popular didn't got close.

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All this meanwhile Mr Beast stupid ass videos get 70M in 24 hours each time, what a damn joke. Seems like the only group who can pull big numbers anymore is blackpink thanks to the SEA streaming farms, i guess youtube will lose its meaning for kpop fans in some time.

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Oh the salt don’t be mad bp is more popular in SEA

All of us have seen blinks paying for entire cyber cafes with hundreds of machines looping blackpink videos, thats just damn hard facts they will do big numbers without them because of their great video production and their videos are watched by kpop fans in general and outside of kpop but stop denying reality friend.

Quote from DoReMii

Mate I’m IN reality, you seem to be up your own ass.

Every Kpop fandom mass streams, mind you PV, SD mv still rack up more daily views this year then anny other Kpop comeback besides jisoo Flower Take the L.

not everyone got sea streaming farms friend, stop crying, thats not even the point of the thread but a side note but nobody can't mention blackpink without you being a cry baby.

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Now that I think about it: how did it happen so quickly? Not that long ago it was all about Youtube and now it's all about Spotify. Spotify has been around for a while, so it's not the new thing everyone is trying. Why did nobody care about Spotify in 2021, but they do now?

i noticed twice started doing better on spotify than on youtube in late 2021 with doughnut, moonlight sunrise, talk that talk and pop all have bigger number on spotify. and newjeans can easily have 3 or 4 times more streams on spotify than on youtube, meanwhile on youtube music is the same way more streams.

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maybe spotify expanding? more access to countries? becoming the better easy access platform? subscription was probablyh cheaper back then?

And youtube is basically unusable without premium or an ad blocker now, with all the changes of policies most of the time kpop fandoms didn't even knew what the streaming rules were.