This article is not intended for young, dumb, cunts… just some quick analysis based on things heard around Stickam / Stickychat.   If your not going to read it - the point of this is that 1.) Stickam is not dying.  2.) Cranky, Pussy E-celebs have no effect on stickam.  3.)  Not only isn’t it bad, but its good in that it opens the market for new talent.

So Stickam page views are down…

…and many of us have noticed the blah.  Bad economy?  School?  Stickam’s cultural transition from mere fun to utility?  Saturation of live streaming market?  Who knows.  But don’t pass judgment on this all too hastily just yet.  Stickam isn’t going on its way down.  Take a quick look back to last October - and you see there was the same dip in the views:

Considering that Stickam’s main audience is based in the US and largest demographic is youth, the fact that class is in session is likely the direct correlation.

What was most disturbing was assertions that this was all because a toolbag like Lush would leave Stickam.  Like it has had some detrimental result for Stickam.  You can be sure that has nothing to do with it.  Just like Lush’s big fail-plug of plurk etc.  No effect in reality.  So shut the fuck up Lush you cunt.  You have no sway over traffic by having a lot of friends.

In the big picture, like seen above, the live video market is filling up.  (livevideo / justin.tv / ustream / blogtv / camfrog / mogulus / Yahoo Live / Kyte.tv)  Statistically speaking, ‘Streams featured on Stickam’s home page generate more than 40,000 live views each hour of broadcast. Stickam.com has more than 2 million registered users, and receives more than 2.5 million unique monthly visitors and 4.8 million daily page views.’  Those are no small numbers.  And with the new stickam mobile (vs. qik) and pay per live, Stickam only has room for improvement.

Stickam has had steady long term growth and has proven itself to the American audience.  Justin TV has had drastic recent growth.  Just over the last 3 months its up 46%.  But there are also accusations of mass cheating as one site points out:

Not only would that push their site up, but also the fact that they have garnered more of an international audience.  But still, props to Justin.tv for not just being a fad of a fag with a cam.

On top of all this, cranky, pussified, lame-ass e-celebs seem to be systematically appearing less on Stickam.  As a result of this - obviously there is less juice to milk out of these tool bags.  I’ve been so smothered in cock I wasn’t able to give a damn, or even take a breath and notice.  The silence has been quite blissful!  In my opinion its great.

So even though these people think the world of themselves and their name emblazoned t-shirts, in reality, these e-celebs are about as expendable as a cummy condom.  This opens the market up for other talent.  Perhaps more talent to warm our hearts and harden our cocks?  The internet celebrity movement should be incredibly fast paced.  These ‘celebs’ should be flyin through this fame machine with only the truly exceptional moving on to anything further.  But just remember celebs, you arent shit.

After hearing enough crap about all of this, some of these things had to be said.  Anymore thoughts?

So anyhow, happy early Halloween! / Center For Lollatology <3

As of this post, no major Stickam Entertainer has entered into an exclusive partnership with LiveVideo, which as StickyDrama reported has been soliciting Entertainers to use and promote its sparcely-populated piece-of-shit site.

The crux of the LiveVideo situation is that the company is unwilling or unable to pay content providers a salary or fee. While Stickam does not pay its Entertainers either, the exposure they enjoy is far, far greater than they would on LiveVideo. LiveVideo has at most offered Entertainers half the ad revenue earned on their channels, or profiles. Top-ranked Entertainers have snubbed these so-called “revenue share” agreements, most of them taking the position that only a salary or fee would make leaving Stickam worthwhile.

But LiveVideo has snatched a few lesser-known Enterainers, one of whom sent StickyDrama a copy of his contract. JustinxCore is one of those Entertainers who has agreed to whore LiveVideo in exchange for a revenue share.

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That might be a good deal for some Entertainers—some money is better than no money at all—but there is doubt as to whether Live Video will live up to its end of the deal. LiveVideo is part of the Live Universe family of companies, founded by Myspace founder Brad Greenspan. According to an article on TechCrunch, other Live Universe companies have not paid content providers their due.

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While Jungleboy has been on LiveVideo for a good while, StickyDrama does not foresee the douche providing us with details of his earnings, if any. Hopefully when Justin’s first check arrives in the mail, we’ll know how legitimate this arrangement is.

http://www.stickam.com/juztinxcore

http://www.livevideo.com/juztinxcore

Most Stickam users are familiar with Chris Thompson, aka Jungleboy, from his brief appearance in “Stickam: To Hell and Back.”

He used to be a regular on Stickam—until LiveVideo supposedly paid him to become an exclusive host on their site. While StickyDrama has not confirmed that Chris is one of LiveVideo’s “paid content providers,” why else would anyone leave Stickam for that piece of shit site?

Yesterday Jungleboy had LV Admins ban StickyDrama from his Live. Our offense? Typing the word “FUCK” after Jungleboy had just warned a female viewer to “watch your mouth” when she told him he was “fucking hot.” That was our first and only statement in his Live, and we not streaming any image or video.

How lame. And hypocritical—when he says it himself, his response is “F-bombs happen.”

While we would ordinarily agree that a host may kick or ban any user for any reason they see fit, nothing screams “douche” more than banning for one utterance of the F word.

StickyDrama would never suggest that our readers spam the douche’s Live with such phrases as “STICKAM IS BETTER.” But if someone did, we wouldn’t complain.

http://www.livevideo.com/Jungleboy

http://www.myspace.com/jungleboy2

http://www.stickam.com/profile/jungleboy2

http://youtube.com/user/supricky06

Paul Nigher, acting on behalf of LiveVideo.com, has been approaching some of Stickam’s most popular Entertainers, offering them incentives to defect to his company’s site.

Mr. Nigher has been “reaching out to some of the top content producers” on Stickam such as Ownage Pranks, Dani Mosh and Anthony Vanity, in hopes to make Live Video a better place than the vapid shithole it presently is. As any Stickam user who has been to the site is well aware, almost no one is Live on LiveVideo; and the few who are rarely have more than a handful of viewers in their poorly designed channels.

Hello Kitty-wearing Jew Elliot Ben was accommodating enough to provide StickyDrama with the series of communications Mr. Nigher had sent him.

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Unimpressed by Mr. NIgher’s promises of “guaranteed promotion” and “other perks,” none of the solicited Stickam users are inclined to grace LiveVideo with presence unless offered some monetary incentive. Frankly, they’d be foolish to waste their time on such a dead site like LiveVideo, and outright stupid to consider leaving Stickam.

StickyDrama is curious what will become of Paul’s Stickam account, now that Admins are no doubt aware of his activities.

http://www.stickam.com/paulnigh

http://www.livevideo.com