hey - I think I see what you are trying to say, but I will say that straight numbers equal something different that the sum you can up with.
ML said in that other post that DD was averaging 12 million viewers, or take this as your number
http://www.christianpost.com/news/duck- ... -6-121957/ with the stated "decrease" to 3.9 M viewers. I am assuming this is per episode as the article states for Episode 2 of Season 6.
So lets take Steve's numbers just for the shear giggles of this one:
n case you are considering the lucrative career of TV composer, here's a sample of what to expect. My most recent ASCAP royalty statement includes payments for video-on-demand services such as Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix. The largest payout of all these was for a placement on Duck Dynasty. You may have heard of it. It's a rather popular show. For this quarter, this 19-second cue played on Amazon a total of 232,701 times! Yes, over 200,000 times.
Total payment: $4.07.
So let's take $4.07 / 232,701 views (which is the same as streams and doesn't matter much whether you and your wife crowded around the laptop, or 12 family were around the apple TV in your living room or whatever) = $0.00001749 per stream.
Paulie, for comparison, this 19-second cue on this episode played 4 times in prime time which paid $17, and played 3 times in the morning for $7.80.
lets take conservative numbers. Lets assume that only 1 million people watched this episode - or rather 1 million households (some were single people, others had the entire house crowded around).
so my math gives me this: total payout of $24.80. Total number of plays = 7 * viewership of 1 million people = 7 million "views"
payout per "view" = $0.00000354
Online: $0.00001749
TV: $0.00000354
So this somewhat conservative estimate shows that online pays out a factor of 10 x more than TV.
You can poke many holes in the numbers, but that says something to me. Factor of 10 is statistically significantly different.
If we had chosen 12 million average TV viewership per episode the TV royalty would be another factor of 10 x smaller, and the online payment would be a factor of 100 X the Tv.
That is what I am trying to point out. Check my math, that many zeros makes me cross-eyed.
YMMV.