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NEWS: Crunchyroll to Simulcast Bleach TV Anime on June 8

Glad to hear about this now. So that means the big 3 are taken care of. I've put off on going to CR for some time now, but there are now just too many incentives in not not going there. Now just need to figure out how to get the feed from my comp to my TV.

About time they got it but isnt this show all most over

Aura Ichadora wrote:

So the petition I heard about getting DB to sub the episodes on CR didn't work out? I don't even know if one actually existed - I heard about it from my brother, but didn't go into researching it since I lost interest in Bleach a long time ago.

What you heard got garbled along the way.

When CR launched its petition, including a chance for those adding to the petition to make a comment, DB requested its users to support the Crunchyroll petition and add the request that DB get the job of doing the subtitles.

A lot of the DB fanbois seem to have the idea that CR does the subtitles so it was just a matter of CR hiring DB ... not surprisingly, a large number of those relying on bootlegged rip-offs of RAWs with unauthorized translations are a bit hazy on how legal digital distribution works.

A lot of DB fanbois also seem to labor under the misapprehension that if DB was for some reason hired by the rights holder that DB has been ripping off for years, that the subtitles approved by the rights holder would be identical to what DB does as an unauthorized distributor of bootlegs.

how does watching anime on cruncyroll differ from any other website that provides fansub?

How much money do studios actually get from Crunchyroll?

Its not a bootleg rip-off of the RAW, its uploaded by the people who make it.

Not so much from ad-streams, at present levels of views, from recent exchange of PR's, if there are 10m's of streams per month, since gross ad revenues are a couple of pennies per episode at best, so in the range of $1m's annually at most via that channel. On the other hand its been growing at a rapid rate.

In the business model, its seems likely that an important part of the ad-streams is in generating new anime memberships.

Darc_knight wrote:

how does watching anime on cruncyroll differ from any other website that provides fansub?

#1. Crunchy Roll are not fansubbers. (although they used to be, I believe.)
#2. It's legal. You can always count on it being up on the site at the time they say it will, and it won't ever be removed due to copyright infringement.

I am just happy to be able to see new episodes again. It seems CN has lost interest in Bleach just like they did with Naruto. Add to that Viz's slow boxset release schedule and a simulcast feels overdue.

That's good, hows about geting One Piece such that I, being a Britt, can see it?

One must also consider the income that comes from subscriptions, though I'm not sure which is more important (advertising or subscriptions).

einhorn303 wrote:

One must also consider the income that comes from subscriptions, though I'm not sure which is more important (advertising or subscriptions).

I think subscriptions are more important. Sites like Hulu and YouTube still aren't profitable yet and they get a crapton of streams. Hulu puts like 4 or 5 ads in a video, which is significantly more than what CR does.

I was doing some research on how much you can make from video ads. Most of what I saw paid like $3 to $6 per 1,000 views. A subscription to CR ranges from $5 to $12 a month.

I think CR does 2 ads per video stream. You'd need 1 person to watch like 500-1500 episodes per month to equal the money generated from one subscriber, but that's not a realistic expectation.

Subscribers are way more profitable. I think that's why they always have that $20 off deal going. I can't explain why they do $20 off a $19.95 subscription but $20 off of a $59.95 subscription still leaves them with an amount of money that's significantly more than what any one person could generate from stream episodes for free.