Brand new from the Socks, here’s a fun little video promoting our forthcoming preview shows in Brighton.
But apart from this, and the excerpts from the Glasgow shows that we’ve been putting out in dribs and drabs, the Socks are really not making many videos this season. There’s a reason for this, namely we don’t have our old office so we don’t have the filming space we had before. We could film on location, like we once did all the time, but somehow the inspiration hasn’t struck.
The question is, does it make a lot of difference to our fans out there? I ask this because, looking back at the many videos we made in the run up to our last three shows, hardly any of them have had any big viewing figures, and I don’t know what difference, if any, they’ve made to the attendance of our shows. Certainly we’re not the level of Youtube artist who makes money from the videos themselves.
So, fans, who came to our last three shows as a result of the videos? Who didn’t watch any of the videos but came any way? I’m genuinely interested.
Here are some stats from the last 3 shows’ pre-Edinburgh videos:
Deadpool - 1004 views
Avengers Reel - 484
Bechdel Test - 322
Infinity War - 316
Black Panther - 311
Fantastic Four - 279
Thor & Odin - 279
Black Lighting - 191
Silver Surfer - 164
DC - 208
Shakespearian Insults - 1435 views
Othello - 1087
Girls & Boys - 519
King John - 371
Bottom - 352
Comedy Of Errors - 295
As You Like It - 282
2 Gentlemen Of Verona - 233
Loves Labours Lost - 283
Broadchurch - 1406 views
Ian Rankin - 950
Reservoir Dogs - 1405
The Sweary - 864
Restaurant Sketch - 884
The Prisoner - 765
Ballad of Cannon & Ball - 824
Delilah - 680
Reject Titles - 675
Bearing in mind that the MInging videos have had four years to accrue those figures, they’re still pretty poor. And it’s significant that spoken sketch videos (Deadpool, Insults, Broadchurch & most of the Minging ones) get higher viewing figures than music videos. So perhaps I’ve been doing these musical videos purely for my own entertainment. Oh god, all the time I’ve wasted, when I could have been putting old tat on eBay instead.
The Scottish Falsetto Socks brand new show ROLL UP! is previewing Nationwide:
May 24 - Victoria Theatre Halifax
May 30 - Vauxhall Comedy Club
June 1 & 2 - Komedia Brighton Fringe
June 8 - Harlequin Theatre Redhill
June 17 - Grassington Festival Yorkshire
June 22 - Strule Arts Omagh
July 8 - Barnes Fringe
July 12 - Kings Arms Salford, GM Fringe
July 20 - Bedford Fringe
July 28 - Derby Bar One
July 31st - August 25th, The Scottish Falsetto Socks ROLL UP! at the Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose 9.30pm, every night of the Edinburgh Fringe 2019. Sexy new venue, sexy new timeslot. Book now!
How do you promote your videos? I dont particularly visit YouTube on it's own, I link from other places, usually Facebook or Twitter when I saw your question, it occurred to me I hadn't seen a Socks video on Facebook for a good long while.
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