Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.

[Sup3r]

Is that the option select RT fans still use? Nobody used the website. Like ever. Video wise it was a piece of shit, so much so it was a running gag to shit on them for being an internet media company with an atrocious website.

And it isn't like they've made any major strides towards being better, Gavin admitted to the RT app bricking his Apple TV. The only reason people ever use the RT site is to get spoilers a day or two early from the idiots who pay for first.

 

[Nod Flenders]

Is that the option select RT fans still use? Nobody used the website. Like ever. Video wise it was a piece of shit, so much so it was a running gag to shit on them for being an internet media company with an atrocious website.

RT fans, like the company itself, are completely unwilling to take the L.

 

[Random Internet Person]

And it isn't like they've made any major strides towards being better, Gavin admitted to the RT app bricking his Apple TV. The only reason people ever use the RT site is to get spoilers a day or two early from the idiots who pay for first.

Death Battle and RWBY. And shit on the podcasts. What a great use for the website.

 

[Sup3r]

Death Battle and RWBY. And shit on the podcasts. What a great use for the website.

And given how most of the good personalities have fucked off to greener pastures, and the opinions of the blobs left are so homogeneous that there's no point in watching them.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

This intrigued me a little, so I wanted to see if I could find a service that can check website traffic. There are some, but all they do is just give you an estimate of how many users visit the RT site.
Let's being with SimilarWeb

Spoiler: SimilarWeb

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Similarweb was the first site I came across, and as you can see, they are quite generous. 2.8 million visits last month, not bad at all, if only it weren't for the abysmal visit duration. Lmao, less than 5 minutes. I bet those visitors open the site, see how shitty it's running and promptly fuck off.
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Seems like most of their traffic comes from direct links I believe, unless I misunderstand what "direct" means. Anyway, seems like most people don't actively search for RT.View attachment 2868272
And for the small amount of visist they gain from their social media, over half of it comes from YouTube.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/roosterteeth.com/

Next, I used a website called Ubersuggest.

Spoiler: Ubersuggest

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This one could be a bit closer to reality compared to SimilarWeb. 2.8 million users, with their failing company and progressively bad content? Don't believe it one bit.
The fact that the home page only gets an estimated 40k visits is embarrasing. Also, Camp Camp is getting more page visits than fucking RWBY. Absolutely hillarious.

Ubersuggest

app.neilpatel.com

These numbers are all estimates, so they are not indicative of the actual amount of traffic the RT site gets, but it should give us some idea of the actual number. I wish RT would release this data, that way they can shut everyone up if they do indeed get 2.8 million visits per month, but I highly doubt they get anywhere near even 500k. Damn I wish I worked in RTs IT department just so I could leak this data lmao.

Not bad findings.

So, SimilarWeb says they use publicly available data to calculate their numbers. Stuff like Google Analytics (RT does have it installed on the website), various APIs and ISP information. A lot of that can be cross referenced across themselves to paint a picture of what sites point to RoosterTeeth, what sites get traffic coming from RoosterTeeth, how many requests for certain APIs are made, etc. I'm still not certain how accurate it is, but suffice to say it does paint a picture of how often the site is visited, and that picture isn't pretty. 2M sounds nice, but for comparison...

(BTW, Direct refers to users accessing the site by typing the full URL into the browser)

As for Ubersuggest, I can't really find how their calculating everything, but I'm going to assume it's the same as SimilarWeb and the number discrepancy between the 2.8M and 500k in visits is because Ubersuggest is calculating the traffic "organically". If I had to guess, their numbers are based off of treating identifiable visitors as a unique visitor rather than treating each visit session as a unique visitor (doesn't care if it's seen you already today, you left the site and came back so you're new traffic). Numbers still aren't great, and once again

 

[ChefKiss]

Oh god, this is so fucking sad. When Jacob is the one with seniority you know shit is beyond fucked.

And I thought the death of Cow Chop was sad but at least it never turned into this.

He's also the least fat fuck there, jesus christ

 

[DimitryPidarBlyat]

Not bad findings.

So, SimilarWeb says they use publicly available data to calculate their numbers. Stuff like Google Analytics (RT does have it installed on the website), various APIs and ISP information. A lot of that can be cross referenced across themselves to paint a picture of what sites point to RoosterTeeth, what sites get traffic coming from RoosterTeeth, how many requests for certain APIs are made, etc. I'm still not certain how accurate it is, but suffice to say it does paint a picture of how often the site is visited, and that picture isn't pretty. 2M sounds nice, but for comparison...
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(BTW, Direct refers to users accessing the site by typing the full URL into the browser)

As for Ubersuggest, I can't really find how their calculating everything, but I'm going to assume it's the same as SimilarWeb and the number discrepancy between the 2.8M and 500k in visits is because Ubersuggest is calculating the traffic "organically". If I had to guess, their numbers are based off of treating identifiable visitors as a unique visitor rather than treating each visit session as a unique visitor (doesn't care if it's seen you already today, you left the site and came back so you're new traffic). Numbers still aren't great, and once again

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Ah, so what I found doesn't really say much then, I did figure that these sites can't be that accurate because I got such different results. Another one I found said the RT site only gets around 132k visitors per month, very different from the other two.

There's no way to verify the accuracy of these sites I guess, since RT are the ones who hold the actual numbers. All we have are estimates, and even those don't look good. Really makes you wonder about the actual numbers.

PS: on the same website, KF gets about 76k monthly visitors apparently.

 

[Pig Boss]

But but but, the RT site is where the majority of the audience watches AH content.

It's probably less accurate than looking at site metrics but I just took a look at the comments per video since I'd assume the RT site would have the same, if not more, engagement than youtube. Comments on the last LP of Minecraft has 80 comments vs youtube's 328 (which is already a pretty pathetic number). So if the youtube version has 328 comments and 90,000 views then does the RT version have 80 comments to roughly 22,000 views?
Being honest, that still seems too high.

 

[pephickshigh]

This intrigued me a little, so I wanted to see if I could find a service that can check website traffic. There are some, but all they do is just give you an estimate of how many users visit the RT site.
Let's being with SimilarWeb

Spoiler: SimilarWeb

View attachment 2868238
Similarweb was the first site I came across, and as you can see, they are quite generous. 2.8 million visits last month, not bad at all, if only it weren't for the abysmal visit duration. Lmao, less than 5 minutes. I bet those visitors open the site, see how shitty it's running and promptly fuck off.
View attachment 2868259
Seems like most of their traffic comes from direct links I believe, unless I misunderstand what "direct" means. Anyway, seems like most people don't actively search for RT.View attachment 2868272
And for the small amount of visist they gain from their social media, over half of it comes from YouTube.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/roosterteeth.com/

Next, I used a website called Ubersuggest.

Spoiler: Ubersuggest

View attachment 2868284View attachment 2868285
This one could be a bit closer to reality compared to SimilarWeb. 2.8 million users, with their failing company and progressively bad content? Don't believe it one bit.
The fact that the home page only gets an estimated 40k visits is embarrasing. Also, Camp Camp is getting more page visits than fucking RWBY. Absolutely hillarious.

Ubersuggest

app.neilpatel.com

These numbers are all estimates, so they are not indicative of the actual amount of traffic the RT site gets, but it should give us some idea of the actual number. I wish RT would release this data, that way they can shut everyone up if they do indeed get 2.8 million visits per month, but I highly doubt they get anywhere near even 500k. Damn I wish I worked in RTs IT department just so I could leak this data lmao.

RT is a part of a publicly traded company so there has to be a way to get the actual numbers. I know that back in the day the WWF (pre WWE) used to lie about how many tickets they sold to live events to make them sound much grander than they were but once they became WWE and a publicly traded company they were by law no longer allowed to lie about those things and had to release the actual correct numbers. Another example is how the UFC cannot lie about PPV numbers as they are also a publicly traded company and would be punished by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Granted I'm sure the majority share holders of WarnerMedia have no idea who Rooster Teeth is so they'd have no reason to ask for web traffic numbers.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

RT is a part of a publicly traded company so there has to be a way to get the actual numbers. I know that back in the day the WWF (pre WWE) used to lie about how many tickets they sold to live events to make them sound much grander than they were but once they became WWE and a publicly traded company they were by law no longer allowed to lie about those things and had to release the actual correct numbers. Another example is how the UFC cannot lie about PPV numbers as they are also a publicly traded company and would be punished by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Granted I'm sure the majority share holders of WarnerMedia have no idea who Rooster Teeth is so they'd have no reason to ask for web traffic numbers.

Questions;
Are they required to tell shareholders/parent companies, or can anyone request that data?
Does that law apply to online viewer metrics?

Because if it's open to public inquiry and the law doesn't exclude online metrics, I do not mind hounding them with emails and inquiries through channels that don't make me look like an anonymous troll.

 

[Chilson]

RT is a part of a publicly traded company so there has to be a way to get the actual numbers. I know that back in the day the WWF (pre WWE) used to lie about how many tickets they sold to live events to make them sound much grander than they were but once they became WWE and a publicly traded company they were by law no longer allowed to lie about those things and had to release the actual correct numbers. Another example is how the UFC cannot lie about PPV numbers as they are also a publicly traded company and would be punished by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Granted I'm sure the majority share holders of WarnerMedia have no idea who Rooster Teeth is so they'd have no reason to ask for web traffic numbers.

Questions;
Are they required to tell shareholders/parent companies, or can anyone request that data?
Does that law apply to online viewer metrics?

Because if it's open to public inquiry and the law doesn't exclude online metrics, I do not mind hounding them with emails and inquiries through channels that don't make me look like an anonymous troll.

To answer both your questions.

1. RT is a subsidiary of a publicly traded company
2. public companies are only required to disclose financial information on firms that disclose the name and jurisdiction of incorporation of all significant subsidiaries, where significance is defined as any subsidiary whose assets are greater than 10% of consolidated assets or whose income is greater than 10% of consolidated income.

RT is most definitely not 10% of anything in the grand corporate web of their overlords and therefore their overlords are not under any obligation to disclose financial information.

 

[ZeWotah]

Yet another reddit cope thread after Critikal brought up roosterteeth on his podcast with Ray

r/roosterteeth - Ray on being asked about RT during his streams

331 votes and 74 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Yet another reddit cope thread after Critikal brought up roosterteeth on his podcast with Ray

r/roosterteeth - Ray on being asked about RT during his streams

331 votes and 74 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

I love all the "There were no hard feelings when he left" comments despite the fact that you can both see and hear how utterly disaffected Ray was becoming at the end of his tenure at AH. "He's still friends with [insert name here]!" How do you know that? Maybe the reason for less collabs isn't because "Ray doesn't want to hurt RT" and more because Ray and AH have been separated for so long that they've drifted apart as people.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

"He's still friends with [insert name here]!" How do you know that?

Admittedly, I haven't been watching more than just the occasional stream, but I do remember a couple of times he had old RT people come over. For the life of me I can't remember who all those people were besides Jon Risinger.

 

[Tom Honks]

Admittedly, I haven't been watching more than just the occasional stream, but I do remember a couple of times he had old RT people come over. For the life of me I can't remember who all those people were besides Jon Risinger.

As far as I know he has had collaborated with Jeremy and Matt and has raided Michael at least once that I know of

 

[Chilson]

Yet another reddit cope thread after Critikal brought up roosterteeth on his podcast with Ray

r/roosterteeth - Ray on being asked about RT during his streams

331 votes and 74 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

For those of you who didn't watch the video RT fans are inhaling copium over, Critikal made a light jab about how RT is doing poorly which then spirals into the other co=hosts passively shitting on RT as a whole and Ray reluctantly sort of admits RT is not doing well.

Its about 3-4 mins long and Ray clearly wanted it to be even shorter.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Its about 3-4 mins long and Ray clearly wanted it to be even shorter.

Almost like Ray has found success on his own and doesn't want to be tied to the sinking anchor that is RT. Wise move.

 

[AuxPersonality]

I wonder if there where early gaslighting from inside the cooperate body that puppets RT in purging some of the white cast and Jeremy ended up with a target over his head because he's white. If Ky is being openly racist outwards to the fan base I could see the potential for her to do it inwards at co-workers.

Jeremy could be the kind of guy who doesn't sling shit in public and all these panic attacks and his mood these past year/s could just be his own internal fight to justify hes worth the attention and money he earns from content (going solo on twitch) while RT gaslights to make him feel like a nothing white person who is only popular because RT made him.

Pretty classic work situation where management plays mind games with the bottom tier, happens in my job, happens in most peoples work places. RT is no different, the people you see in the content are not the ones who reap the financial benefit of the company doing well, even in the peak "gold" times I don't think the AH guys got a % of the company's profits, they where just wage slaves like the rest of us.

If you subscribe to that theory then people like Ray and Jeremy are threats to RT.

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

For those of you who didn't watch the video RT fans are inhaling copium over, Critikal made a light jab about how RT is doing poorly which then spirals into the other co=hosts passively shitting on RT as a whole and Ray reluctantly sort of admits RT is not doing well.

Its about 3-4 mins long and Ray clearly wanted it to be even shorter.

Kinda wild how inspite of leaving RT on a not great note, Ray does his best not to shit on the company. I don't doubt he had some good times there but anyone paying attention after his twitch account got yoinked could tell he was pissed and checked out completely.

Vs Ky, who is actively dumping on everything that was built by Ray and the other 5. Ungrateful little bitch.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

At the rate things are going, I'd be surprised if RT makes it to 2023.