New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

The Socialblade statistic is from the last 30 days, which would be 24th June to 24th July (today).

GB news started on 13th June, 11 days before the 30 days accounted in the Socialblade stat.

Taking averages, 7.8m over 30 days equates to 2.86m over 11 days. 7.8m + 2.86m is 10.66m over 41 days.

Their youtube channel also posted several videos before airing. Taking those views off the 11.86m total views gives 11.45m views.

So taking into account that it'd require going through each individual video over the last 30 days to exactly determine how far Socialblade may be off (as some videos are obviously more popular than others, and they likely had a bigger bump at the start), even a cursory glance and a quick extrapolation of the data gives Youtube views since June 13th of 11.45m and Socialblade data giving approx 10.66m.

So approx. within 10% of Youtube's figures. Not enough to show that the data is in any way wrong enough to disprove the point, especially as the same margin of error is likely attributable to Sky News and BBC News Youtube pages too.

Is it a large percentage though?

BBC News had nearly 4 times as many viewers as GB News, and in terms of YouTube BBC News had nearly 7 times the views.

Considering you were selling GB News on its YouTube metrics it starts to fall down when you scratch below the surface of your gimmicky catchphrases.

Could GB News improve from here as it builds up? Sure of course it could. However, it is catering for a niche market and those inclined to subscribe and watch the channel will already be doing so. Difficult to see it appealing to a wider audience given the backlash the channel faced when one of its presenters tried to change the narrative.

I do admire your vigorous defence of it and Farage, but your refusal to take on board any other opinions undermines your position.

You're doing, the EXACT same, from the opposing viewpoint.

But yes, most people here are giving their opinions and projections based on current data. If that data changes, people's opinions and projections should change too. "Wait and see" is absolutely valid, but there's also no harm in "This is what I think will happen".

But you don't discuss the channel, you discuss youtube, twitter, Facebook etc

Gets booed by a tiny minority of low IQ idiots, so basically the type of Neanderthals that GB "news" appeals to.

It gets clapped and cheered every time too

Poor Eskimo. No wonder hes back preaching about BLM after this post of reality against his favouritest channel.

No, as you yourself rightly hinted at earlier, the term itself is really unhelpful. It's so bandied around for nefarious purposes that it has lost any useful intrinsic value it might once have had.

In reality, all of this is very simple. "I don't agree or like what you're saying but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it" is the bare minimum i would expect from those proclaiming to be undying champions of free speech. It's the utterly transparent hypocrisy that is both laughable and galling. By all means, keep having a go at blm and other protests, but stop banging on about free speech. And, for pity's sake, please stfu about being victims of cancel culture when it's little more than a week, a guy was effectively ran out of the station for making a gesture certain people didn't like.

So ib your personal opinion people shouldn't be free to express themselves, in your personal opinion its ok for someone to get sacked for expressing thier opinion?

The station you laud as a bastion for free speech and free expression cancels someone for exerting thier rights and you're OK with this?

I've said it before and will say it again, you're a hypocrite.

Whereas the station should have explained that while they were not happy with him expressing himself that way they believe he has the right to express himself. I'd you are going to champion yourself as a station of free speech/expression then you need to be consistent, otherwise you just look like a bunch of hypocrites.

It was in his resignation letter

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/18/guto-harri-quits-gb-news-as-nigel-farage-is-given-prime-time-show

"Written directly to GB chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos, he continues: “Before I took the knee on air I discussed it with my producer, director, co-presenters and head of newsroom. After I did it, GB News captured the moment and proactively cascaded it on social media.

Two days later you told me you wanted me to take a break for the summer. You did not say you were briefing papers and issuing a statement that accused me of breaching your editorial standards.

“I asked you to change that on the night – pointing out it was defamatory. You ignored my texts and refused to take my calls. I now see that you’ve hired Nigel Farage who immediately declared in public that he will not be taking the knee.

“Please explain how that does not breach editorial standards but I did.”

“You took me off air for backing the England football team making a simple public statement against racism while arguing that GB News is about celebrating the best of Britain, defending free speech, having the debates others won’t have and combatting the cancel culture. You are intelligent enough to see what an absurd parody of that your station has become.”

It is also lazy, a substitute for the equally meaningless "PC crowd"