Mark Wright was never going to become a regular player it was almost certainly going to be a documentary and Crawley would get a cut,I had a look at the Sidesman game on YouTube and couldn't believe how big the crowd was so I'm sure this is purely a money making exercise.
I had never heard of the sidemen before but a quick check revealed that they have 138 million you tube subscribers. I presume young people around the world are interested in what they do. This appears to bring massive publicity to the club. What opportunities that offers I have no idea.
With 138 million followers - could you imagine how much could be raised in one iFollow game even if 1% of there followers decided to watch a game - not saying that it will happen but with the way going at the moment it could be financially massive for the club. We have never had so much worldwide publicity since we were narrowly beaten by Manchester United - it’s going to be interesting to see how this goes. As WAGMI have always said that they are looking outside the box to raise the profile and finances of the club.
Some possible maths: numbers plucked from the air and I don't know if Crawley v Accrington is even on ifollow
Sidemen have 130 million subscribers on youtube. Let's say that 50,000 of them log in to ifollow for Crawley v Accrington. Ifollow costs £10 a pop. Let's say that Crawley receive 20p of that. 20p x 50,000 = £10,000 additional income. Several players who might have made the bench but didn't due to one youtube substitute split £2,000 of that and the club get an extra £8k for the game.
I've no idea if I'm close, but the potential is for more than 50,000 extra ifollow subscribers and that Crawley receive more than 20p per log-in.
Transfer this idea to next season? when the club may have its own streaming service so are not relying on crumbs from ifollow and there is potential, though obviously the entire cost of the streaming service falls on the club. Or maybe not: maybe they can offer sufficient inducement to a third-party streaming service to supply it.
I can see some potential, but it would need to be carefully managed to sell it to some of us dinosaurs.
Some possible maths: numbers plucked from the air and I don't know if Crawley v Accrington is even on ifollow
Sidemen have 130 million subscribers on youtube. Let's say that 50,000 of them log in to ifollow for Crawley v Accrington. Ifollow costs £10 a pop. Let's say that Crawley receive 20p of that. 20p x 50,000 = £10,000 additional income. Several players who might have made the bench but didn't due to one youtube substitute split £2,000 of that and the club get an extra £8k for the game.
I've no idea if I'm close, but the potential is for more than 50,000 extra ifollow subscribers and that Crawley receive more than 20p per log-in.
Transfer this idea to next season? when the club may have its own streaming service so are not relying on crumbs from ifollow and there is potential, though obviously the entire cost of the streaming service falls on the club. Or maybe not: maybe they can offer sufficient inducement to a third-party streaming service to supply it.
I can see some potential, but it would need to be carefully managed to sell it to some of us dinosaurs.
Have you applied for the Chancellor of Exchequer job Paul ?
Some possible maths: numbers plucked from the air and I don't know if Crawley v Accrington is even on ifollow
Sidemen have 130 million subscribers on youtube. Let's say that 50,000 of them log in to ifollow for Crawley v Accrington. Ifollow costs £10 a pop. Let's say that Crawley receive 20p of that. 20p x 50,000 = £10,000 additional income. Several players who might have made the bench but didn't due to one youtube substitute split £2,000 of that and the club get an extra £8k for the game.
I've no idea if I'm close, but the potential is for more than 50,000 extra ifollow subscribers and that Crawley receive more than 20p per log-in.
Transfer this idea to next season? when the club may have its own streaming service so are not relying on crumbs from ifollow and there is potential, though obviously the entire cost of the streaming service falls on the club. Or maybe not: maybe they can offer sufficient inducement to a third-party streaming service to supply it.
I can see some potential, but it would need to be carefully managed to sell it to some of us dinosaurs.
Nicely put Paul but the revenue from ifollow to the home club is 80%. Plus income from the first 500 sales by the away club go to the home club, anything beyond that goes to the away club.
So, let's look at those figures again.
50,000 log into ifollow, Crawley receives £8 per log-in = £400,000 per game. Wow, suddenly all this makes more and more sense. Compare this to our normal weekly takings at the gate. Very approximately - 2,500 attendance at an average of, let's say, £15 each = £37,500, which is decent enough but the ifollow has the potential to be 10 and half times as much per game.
I had no idea the ifollow income was 80% and am very surprised. Although I said 20p, I figured £1 at most. This is the first time I've encountered a business model for a football club outside the elite that might be austainable. I don't usually like gimmicks, but if that's what it takes...
Some possible maths: numbers plucked from the air and I don't know if Crawley v Accrington is even on ifollow
Sidemen have 130 million subscribers on youtube. Let's say that 50,000 of them log in to ifollow for Crawley v Accrington. Ifollow costs £10 a pop. Let's say that Crawley receive 20p of that. 20p x 50,000 = £10,000 additional income. Several players who might have made the bench but didn't due to one youtube substitute split £2,000 of that and the club get an extra £8k for the game.
I've no idea if I'm close, but the potential is for more than 50,000 extra ifollow subscribers and that Crawley receive more than 20p per log-in.
Transfer this idea to next season? when the club may have its own streaming service so are not relying on crumbs from ifollow and there is potential, though obviously the entire cost of the streaming service falls on the club. Or maybe not: maybe they can offer sufficient inducement to a third-party streaming service to supply it.
I can see some potential, but it would need to be carefully managed to sell it to some of us dinosaurs.
Nicely put Paul but the revenue from ifollow to the home club is 80%. Plus income from the first 500 sales by the away club go to the home club, anything beyond that goes to the away club.
So, let's look at those figures again.
50,000 log into ifollow, Crawley receives £8 per log-in = £400,000 per game. Wow, suddenly all this makes more and more sense. Compare this to our normal weekly takings at the gate. Very approximately - 2,500 attendance at an average of, let's say, £15 each = £37,500, which is decent enough but the ifollow has the potential to be 10 and half times as much per game.
Post by Creepy Crawley on Oct 28, 2022 12:59:25 GMT
If one, all, or some of these sidemen get on the bench, I reckon that will have an impact on attendance for the Accrington game.
The Sidemen sold out Charlton's ground only a few weeks ago for their charity match, so I reckon you'll have a few Sidemen fans / followers turn up to watch us in the Cup.
You know what that means .......... another Fulham experience ........... £10 a Burger..... can't get in Redz Bar .......... half hour queues to get in the turnstiles .
If one, all, or some of these sidemen get on the bench, I reckon that will have an impact on attendance for the Accrington game.
The Sidemen sold out Charlton's ground only a few weeks ago for their charity match, so I reckon you'll have a few Sidemen fans / followers turn up to watch us in the Cup.
You know what that means .......... another Fulham experience ........... £10 a Burger..... can't get in Redz Bar .......... half hour queues to get in the turnstiles .
Happy Days
If that happens then open up the north terrace to the home fans as well - leave a small amount of the terrace as they will have already bought terrace tickets to Accrington + allocated away seats. The club should see any sudden surge in the purchase of home tickets over the next week to enable them to organise something.
Some possible maths: numbers plucked from the air and I don't know if Crawley v Accrington is even on ifollow
Sidemen have 130 million subscribers on youtube. Let's say that 50,000 of them log in to ifollow for Crawley v Accrington. Ifollow costs £10 a pop. Let's say that Crawley receive 20p of that. 20p x 50,000 = £10,000 additional income. Several players who might have made the bench but didn't due to one youtube substitute split £2,000 of that and the club get an extra £8k for the game.
I've no idea if I'm close, but the potential is for more than 50,000 extra ifollow subscribers and that Crawley receive more than 20p per log-in.
Transfer this idea to next season? when the club may have its own streaming service so are not relying on crumbs from ifollow and there is potential, though obviously the entire cost of the streaming service falls on the club. Or maybe not: maybe they can offer sufficient inducement to a third-party streaming service to supply it.
I can see some potential, but it would need to be carefully managed to sell it to some of us dinosaurs.
Have you applied for the Chancellor of Exchequer job Paul ?
With sums like that, expect a call from Rishi
More likely a call from Liz Truss. Fantasy figures were more her thing really.