Watford 2 - 1 Arsenal -- Wenger Surely Must Go!

Yes, it all those things, and it's great!

I have to admit, I am slightly envious they are coining it in now for doing something that is probably really good fun.  They have stumbled across the perfect ingredients, they have quite good characters, the interviewer is good at what he does and crucially has the voice for it (unlike a lot of other fan channels), but the raison d'être has to be the Wenger in/Wenger out dynamic.

Last time I did the maths on it, they claimed they were getting 12m views a month, which should be generating approximately £215k/year gross.  But it has been growing fast since then.  Hard to know their exact advertising revenue but it is probably around £1500 per million views.  It can vary a lot depending on the content, a clean music video would be getting paid a lot more (6 or 7 times more), and AFTV will be getting penalised a bit because of all the swearing, so it is a rough guess.  Many advertisers don't like to be associated with swearing or "cheap" content so that will take a cut out of their revenue, but they have other additional revenue streams with their deal with ladbrokes and occasionally flogging other tat. 

DT (one of the fans who is a guest every week) claims he doesn't get paid.  I reckon that is a lie.  If he really isn't getting paid then he is a muppet.  His videos alone are generating between 300k to 1.8m views EACH depending on the game.  So maybe around 25m views a year.   So almost £40k a year.  He should be asking for his cut.  I think I'd want around half of that.

Be difficult to replicate their success though, would take a lot of time to grow and you need the right ingredients, even the Man United equivalent is tiny in comparison. 

But I think they have got a nice little earner for life now, even if Wenger goes people will still tune in, especially when Arsenal lose, and as I've said before, it is growing fast.

Yeah, I've seen it, the haven't got the characters and the interviewer isn't as good.  It was okay around the Moyes era, but haven't watched it in years now.