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

Genuinely you've no clue how YouTube works.

And secondly how many people have up and left sticks of a sinking ship. More can actually mean replacement.

Again, Youtube subscribers/views do not translate equally over to viewers of their actual channel, and while the new schedule and addition of Farage will see a bump in their ratings for a week or two, unless they start substantially and consistently increasing viewer numbers to their actual channel, it's not going to be sustainable.

Why you keep focusing on their YouTube numbers is beyond me. It means incredibly little in the long run as to the viability of GB News as a whole. And even then, the numbers of new subscribers really isn't that huge either. Even taking the numbers you posted of 2000 in 24 hours, thats 1million new subscribers in 500 days. Almost a year and a half if it continued at that rate. That's pretty abysmal tbh for a nationwide "news" channel with already-established personalities such as Neil and Farage.

Who said it was a generalisation? It was a quote, noting that Farage, so called saviour ("watch out BBC!", said one particular tabloid), lost 30% of his audience in 3 days.

Sorry you don't like that.

Ah, Farage going down is a good thing. Got it.

You can't complain about hyperbole right after saying "Folks here give the impression that 350 people watch the channel per week, all of whom are over the age of 70." - That's pure hyperbole.

New channel attracts viewers in their first month. Of course they did. There is a definite audience for what they do, an audience of all ages.

The question is, is that audience enough to sustain them? Will that audience grow enough to sustain them? There was a huge build-up before launch, and in their first month the actual views to most of the programming has been dropping, and in some cases has been statistically zero.

Sky News, BBC etc are beating it in the ratings, but even then they are small parts of larger networks and can be sustained by them. GB News isn't. They need far greater numbers to stay sustainable. Again, they'll see a bump after taking on Farage and changing the schedule, but the majority of people who want to watch GB News are likely already watching GB News. If people are watching their content on twitter, youtube etc, that's actually pretty damaging, because they need those people watching on the channel instead as they'll make most of their money with ad views.

Their viewer numbers need to substantially increase in the next few months for the channel to be viable. Their views in their second and third months will tell a far more important story than their first (when their launch will obviously have gotten them more attention and people checking them out).

Farage the former City of London banker who rails against the City of London elites.

Farage who wants the EU immigrants out except his EU wife

Farage who repeatedly said the UK could have a deal like Norway then called anyone who suggested it a traitor post Brexit

Farage who promised multiple Brexit votes if he lost and called anyone who suggested it after he won a traitor.

Mr consistent

He has repeatedly said the UK will get a Norway + deal which would mean being in the EEA

He repeatedly bangs on about the London elite and vested interest and all this nonsense despite him being up to his eyes in it. Lives in Chelsea and schooled in the ultra elite Dulwich college.

And yes he threatened to keep campaigning for Brexit if it lost which in his words would have been against the will of the people.

I'm pretty sure no one on here believes you anyway when you talk about falsities. And the fact you point out that its "southern and eastern" Europeans are the problem only reinforces for me that Brexit was about racism for many. The idea of good and bad immigrants that I heard so much of in London when told it's ok that I could steal the jobs but Italians and Polish were not welcome

For me GB "news" is akin to reruns of friends or top gear, sometimes I'll be flicking through the channels and see it's there and think to myself "ah sure this is always good for a few giggles"

Nothing more nothing less.

That is not what I asked for. You are championing GB News based on social media interaction and views. Can you please provide the same numbers for other news outlets over the same period?

Otherwise the figures for YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are without comparison.

And how many of those 4m stayed watching the channel? Some of their programmes are barely getting 1% of that.