How are PPVs estimated

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And how accurate is the estimate?

The numbers look very ball park, often rounded to the tens of not hundreds of thousands. Phone Post 3.0

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Internet traffic. Phone Post 3.0

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Outlaw'd by Lytle - Internet traffic. Phone Post 3.0
To UFC.tv?

What about all the cable feeds around the world?

Re Internet- But surprising if someone analyses packet traffic and comes up with such a loose number. Phone Post 3.0

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Needlemover -
Outlaw'd by Lytle - Internet traffic. Phone Post 3.0
To UFC.tv?

What about all the cable feeds around the world?

Re Internet- But surprising if someone analyses packet traffic and comes up with such a loose number. Phone Post 3.0
I believe Internet traffic in general plus social media activity. Phone Post 3.0

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Preorders of the PPV, and traffic in the internets. Phone Post 3.0

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I thought it was estimated off of google searches or something like that.

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clattymine - 


I thought it was estimated off of google searches or something like that.


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Who knows. Between this and the neilson ratings system, its just a clusterfuck

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By the rise and fall of action figure sales Phone Post 3.0

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Dana does this.  If it isn't high enough he picks again.

 

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Always wondered this myself

Not just UFC but any PPV estimate

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They rain down from Mt. Meltzer.

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I always thought they were posted by Meltzer who had some inside sources at he cable companies.