Well If we are talking buyrates...Not so fast my friend. If I misunderstood you in anyway just let me know.
New Year's Revolution- Down.
2006 0.85
2007 0.55
Royal Rumble-Down.
2006 1.31
2007 1.25
No Way Out-Really shouldn't matter...Shit PPV...Shit Main Event that has 0 to do with Cena...
WM 23-Up.
2006 2.33
2007 2.97
Backlash-Down.
2006 0.55
2007 0.49
Judgement Day-Down.
2006 0.63
2007 0.61
So from the buyrate point. All have went down from NYR to Judgement Day(Ex WM) of 2007.
NYR absolutely stunk it up from the previous year. Even with Cena taking on an Undefeated monster...
Lee Corso, you should not use buyrates to determine PPV successes. You should use total number of buys. There are a lot of factors that go into a buyrate like the number you posted, in terms of availability, exposure, carriers, so on. The same thing happens when talking about TV ratings, which is why a 3.0 Smackdown rating draws roughly the same viewers as a 3.5 Raw rating.
So, go by total buys. I've provided all of them for you...somewhere...in another thread. I recommend putting them in an Excel spreadsheet.
And, again, you don't go by the buys, but rather by the revenue that was created from those buys.
So, let's take the 1st six PPV shows, minus Wrestlemania in 2006.
NYR = 294,000
RR = 548,000
NWO = 219,000
WM = 958,000 (don't use yet)
Backlash = 213,000
JD = 238,000
When you total the number of buys for those shows, you get a total buy of 1,512,000. So, for 5 of the first 6 shows, you get a total buys number of 1,512,000.
Now, let's look at 2007.
NYR = 220,000
RR = 491,000
NWO = 218,000
WM = 1,188,000 (save for later)
Backlash = 194,000
JD = 242,000
Total: 1,365,000
Now, you're probably saying, "Slyfox, look. 2007 drew fewer buys than 2006". And, you'd be right. But, the WWE doesn't look at total buys. They look at revenue created from those buys. That's what any good company does. So, let's examine those numbers a little closer. For 5 of the first 6 PPVs in 2006, the price tag was $34.95 per PPV (except WM, which is why we are saving that for later).
1,512,000 x $34.95 = $52,844,400
In 2007, the price tag was $39.95
1,365,000 x $39.95 = $54,531,750
So, money created from PPVs in 2007 was actually HIGHER than money created from PPVs in 2006.
Now, we've been saving Wrestlemania. How come? Because, in both years, the price tag for Wrestlemania has been $49.99. Here are the buys for each Wrestlemania of the last two years.
2006: 958,000
2007: 1,188,000
So, with many more buys, at the same price, it becomes clear that PPV business, for the first 6 PPVs of 2007, actually did BETTER than it did in 2006.
Now, I'm not going to take you through the whole process of doing so, but when comparing the total amount of revenue created from 2006 and 2007, 2007 has made more money for the WWE than have 2006 in PPV buys thus far (from NYR-GAB).
So, the PPV business for the WWE has actually gone up this year.
Wrong...
Vengeance 2005-2007-
2005 0.92
2006 0.84
2007 0.61
Survivor Series 05-06-
2005 0.94
2006 0.96
Clearly SS blew away Vengeance in terms of buyrates(Close Call in 05) and with the all the talent returning around the time and Trips returning back to the throne. SS will once again spark a big buyrate.
Vengeance 2005: 429,000
Survivor Series 2005: 375,000
Vengeance 2006: 337,000
Survivor Series 2006: 383,000
Source:
http://corporate.wwe.com/documents/YET2006pressrelease.pdf
Note, my source is from the official WWE corporate page.
So, like I said, "Well, 2006 Survivor Series did better than 2005. But, what IS sad is that Vengeance the last two years has done better or almost as well as Survivor Series."
5 Bucks?? You can't plain a simple 5 dollars on a decrease in PPV buyrates. That's ridiculous. The PPV's are lackluster, Therefore they draw badly.
Sure you can. Prove to me you cannot. Every time they up the price of a PPV, average PPV buys go down. But, the revenue created from the PPV buys is what the WWE goes by, and so, is the reason why they keep hiking the prices.
PPVs in 2007 are no more "lackluster" than they were in 2004 or 2005 or 2006. There are just so many more of them in 2006 than there were in 2004, that it tends to drop buyrates even lower, saturate the market, and cause an apparent decrease in the business. Additionally, TNA and ROH have both grown considerably since 2004, and the business UFC is doing is phenomenal.
I'm at 3 including this one and read about 5 in all and visited others. Never have I once ran into a Pro-Cena forum.
Then you are not going to the right ones? I'm a member of 2 different forums where Cena is respected by many posters, maybe more than those who don't. And, I'm only a member of 3 forums. So, 67% of the forums I'm on respect John Cena.
That explains why it still was behind a fucking ass kissing...Hmmm...
I have no idea what your argument was about. I wasn't following at all. I'm just saying that it could have been a big moment. Other than that, I have no clue what's going on.
Guess who had just retained the WWE title a month before?
The same guy who has retained the title at every PPV since Unforgiven 2006?
Not sure what your point is.
All dropped from 2006 and yet you still said earlier in the thread WWE is gaining buyrates. That is wrong.
Judgement Day 2007 did better than Judgment Day 2006.
2006: 238,000
2007: 242,000
source:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070802/20070802005290.html?.v=1
Note that this yahoo report is the official release put out by the WWE. I could find it on the WWE page if I wanted, but this was just easier.
Khali got a few pops when he took out Cena for god's sake. Cena STFU'ed Regal and was booed.
How does that refute what I said? If people were really getting tired of Cena, he'd be getting the same reaction as Charlie Haas.
Your point has no merit. People are not tired of John Cena.
But funny how the crowd seems to always go dead silent when he retains....
I'm watching the end of The Great American Bash right now, and when Cena wins it blows the roof off the place. They even show a guy who is holding his ears because of the noise.
Again, you seem to be fudging some truths...
I'll wait for the real buyrate.
You can probably expect a change of no more than 10,000 buys either way. Generally, that seems to be how it goes for most PPVs that are not Wrestlemania. But, fair enough.