Streaming Proven to Increase DVD Sales?
Japanese associate professor of economics at Keio University and member of the Japanese government’s Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry, Tatsuo Tanaka, has personally published a research paper that determines that unauthorized anime streaming and peer-to-peer distribution results in a marginal increase in commercial DVD sales. Tanaka studied 105 different anime television series found on YouTube, 58 of which were also distributed via peer-to-peer download system Winny. His findings were that “a 1% increase in YouTube views correlated with a 0.25% increase in DVD sales.” “A 1% increase in Winny downloads resulted in a statistically inconclusive 0.06% increase in DVD sales… and a 1.11% decrease in DVD rentals.” These findings suggest that streaming anime does encourage consumers to purchase official DVDs, and unauthorized downloads may have little impact, or a marginal net improvement on DVD sales.
If anyone cares, it’s no secret that I download and watch anime without official authorization. I also spent over $400 purchasing licensed American anime DVDs just this past week alone.
Source: Anime News Network
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And that excuses the illegality?
In fact, if anything, it should be taken as a point that the entire sale-of-anime situation is a fraud perpetrated (if you believe illegal downloading to be a good thing) on a “fandom”.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve largely stopped watching anime altogether. The legal stuff mostly stinks on ice now, and I will not support the illegal situation which this “fandom” appears to define itself by.
So you hate anime, and you hate it when other people watch anime, yet (or therefore) you continue to troll an anime news blog…
I hate TODAY’S anime, because I hate it when other people ADMITTEDLY watch anime ILLEGALLY, making TODAY’s anime _GARBAGE_!
You got that? Any more myths you’d like me to dispel?
Oh ok, so you hate today’s anime and the way in which today’s anime is viewed, so therefore you troll a blog about today’s anime. I totally understand.
Just like any other television series that I buy, I have to watch it first. If it wasn’t for streaming anime, legal and not so legal, I wouldn’t own the massive amount of anime series and gear that I own now. Its advertising for the anime industry. And they didn’t even have to pay to advertise it sometimes because subbers subbed the series and put it online for free.
seanny: I’ll tell you what: Make it workable for the Japanese to have enough money to make anime for me to enjoy again and I won’t shit all over the fandom, OK?
The fandom has shit all over anime, to me. Series of the types I used to enjoy won’t be made again because the Japanese can’t afford to make what might not make money anymore.
zenwolfe: Stop making excuses, dammit. Why do people continue to insist to consume a product they have no right to?
I followed this link in from crunchyroll.com/pulse where I was watching anime legally. And sorry I didn’t go along with your rant and actually told how a streaming anime series made the anime industry some money. Off to go buy some more anime. That’s how I support anime. Not by trolling boards for no reason other than to achieve some sorta self satisfaction with a holier than thou attitude.
update: just bought 4 series listed here> http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/?ForumThreadName=FT0000002027&ReturnTo=Main. I only watched one of them legally the rest were watched on sites that host fan subs.
“I also spent over $400 purchasing licensed American anime DVDs just this past week alone.”
John, have you ever sent pics of your collection over to ANN’s “Shelf Life”? I’m sure more than one person would be interested in seeing them (and boggle over their wrapped-ness unless you’ve changed that), since you’ve mentioned your spending/purchasing habits several times over the years and I’m sure its size wouldn’t be trivial.
I download and watch fansubs. I buy the R1 anime of some of the fansubs I’ve watched- partly as a collector, partly to thank the licensor, and lastly for the convenience it affords me if I ever want to watch it again or in English. My collection ( http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Bradster; not just anime ) is far larger than it should be considering how few of these I’ve actually rewatched.
(I wish we could edit posts here…)
This is a study of Japanese fans and their P2P stuff- I wonder if the percentages are remotely equivalent for Western fans?
starcade, I adore you. Your logic is simply amazing.
“I hate TODAY’S anime, because I hate it when other people ADMITTEDLY watch anime ILLEGALLY, making TODAY’s anime _GARBAGE_!”
Do you hate new movies because some people download them off the Internet? What about cars? Using your logic, does this mean that you hate cars because some people steal them?
Unless, of course, you meant anime fans. But really, how different are they than the fans over yesteryear trading fansubbed tapes? Or do you hate them, too?
If it wasn’t for the internet and streaming anime, I would never have known what anime was. Just happened to come across it one day. Marveled at the beautiful character designs and was hooked.
Now I have an anime collection that I couldn’t possibly watch in a lifetime…. sometimes purchasing a series just to support the industry.
There are many series that will never be licensed, and Streaming is the only option. Thank goodness for sites like Crunchyroll. However, lately they seem to cater too much to fan service.