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So I'm overdue for a Blips episode, and I've been mulling this over in my head as I gear up to really start this month's thing in earnest. https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1349023308390477832
Out of curiosity I pulled my stats from the last year or so, and can broadly confirm what Sterling and Casey suggest: positive coverage of less known games is, on the whole, going to lead to a smaller audience.
This isn't exactly surprising (I did a whole video on how it's hard to talk about small games: ). That said, there's some stuff hidden in those numbers that I find kind of interesting?
My Outer Wilds videos (100k/70k), as well as my Halloween videos for 2019 for Faith (108k) and The Space Between (73k) both did comparatively well. So some of it has to do with the *nature* of coverage, I think?
The sense I get, a year and a half into doing Blips episodes, is that while they work really well as chill videos to put on in the background, but they're not good at *promoting* games. If you're going to draw people in it needs to be much more highly produced coverage.
