Live streaming app periscope recently
released a new feature called super fans
all about allowing broadcasters to
identify who their top fans are but
since the release of the new feature
there's been some confusion and quite a
few questions about how it works
what it means and that's why i've
created this video Periscope Superfans Explained
First up, what is super
fans periscope superfans identify the
broadcaster's top 10 fans and makes it
easy for broadcasters to see who they are
by listing them. As a broadcaster
especially in a busy scope you might see
the same names repeatedly come into your
broadcast but then forget that person's
username when you want to go back and
maybe add them or watch some of their
content, so super fans is a great way of
listing who your top fans are and as a
broadcaster being able to find out who
those top fans are quickly and then
follow them back
check out their content and even just
say hello. The whole idea of super fans
is to make it easy for broadcasters to
see who they're loyal fans are.
The big question how are super fans decided?
A lot goes into deciding how to become someone
super fan or who you're super fans are
here are the things that periscope look at to decide.
Number one, There's a
minimum number of broadcasts that a
viewer has to have watched to be able to be
considered to be one of your super fans
the reason for this is, if a viewer just
came and watched every single minute of
one of your broadcasts, are they really a Superfan?
No.
But if they come in and watch five
minutes of every single one of your
broadcasts, they probably are.
Number Two, Periscope does take into consideration
the number of comments that viewer leaves in
your broadcast and again there's a
minimum threshold to be considered as a Superfan.
Number three, Periscope of
course
look at the number of hearts that
viewers leave to consider whether
someone should be your superfan and
probably the most important number four
is there is a weighting on the watch time
how long people watch you for and
there's actually a different weighting for
live viewing and replay viewing, now one
thing to say is Periscope has not
released what the weighting for all of
these different categories are and
that's because they're constantly
evaluating and
re-evaluating it and changing these
weightings and you know maybe one week
the watch time for live
viewing might have a higher weighting than
comments and then the next week they
might change it up a little bit and
that's ok this should be constantly
changing but the whole idea is to
generate a list of top 10 loyal viewers
of you
Number three, what does the number mean?
A lot of people have been asking what the
number means by the superfans, there's
been a lot of speculation about maybe
that's the number of hearts you given
over time, maybe that's how many comments
you've sent. All of that isn't true.
That number is just a relative number but
it's actually quite useful if you're
going to gamify kind of the way that
you use superfans. Let me just explain
what I mean by that
For example looking at my super fans
let's say Yollie and Dan are having a little
friendly competition to become my
number-one superfan. They could see here
that Dan is actually extremely close and
could possibly overtake Yollie in my
next broadcast. While looking further
down on the list, if you look you can
see Angie is actually quite far away
from overtaking James, so it helps super
fans see how near they are two other super
fans around them and that's cool for
gamification. Number four, how do I become
someone superfan? It's all about how much
the broadcaster broadcasts and how
present and engaged you are in their
broadcasts. Super fans are encouraged to
catch as many of the broadcaster's
broadcasts as possible and engage
regularly to stay high up in the
rankings on their superfan list.
How do I know if I'm a super fan or who my
Superfans are? There's a few way to
see Superfans. Firstly you can see your
Superfans and see who you are a super
fan of by going to your profile and
clicking superfans. Secondly you can see
anyone superfans by going to their
profile and clicking on "followers".
Then thirdly during a Periscope you'll
be able to identify your Superfans
because they have a small flame next to
their name
all other viewers will see this too.
Why did Periscope create Superfans, the
goal is to help broadcasters identify
their most loyal fans and be able to
call them out that's why they have the
little flame icon in the chat.
It's also about separating your friends
from your Superfans.
Your friends you know and you recognize
and you notice when their name pops in
the chat, but sometimes your Superfans
are kind of like the quiet ones that
just sit there and watch and maybe
heart, but don't comment as often. The kind
of silent heroes of your scope. So
periscope wanted to give you a way to
recognize those people too, not just your
friends.
So to sum it up, superfans is all about
giving you the broadcaster a way to
recognize and say thank you to your most
loyal viewers.
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