Love that the first mainstage show (not sarcasm) came out swinging by saying

Black lives matter, trans rights, women deserve a choice, don't be a slop jockey and use GenAI, fuck ICE, and "her name was Renee Nicole Good."

@gunderslam.bsky.social and @theologyvgm.bsky.social know wtf is up.

📣 @gamegrooves.com:
- “Star City” – @thennecan.bsky.social
- “Hot-Head Bop” – @ropanuganti.com
🎸 @dwellingofduels.bsky.social :
- “Better Than O.K.K.” – Normal Mode, @thisisjayc.bsky.social & Amemus
- “Wherever Fire-Pomeranians Are” – @slowlycrushed.bsky.social, miss___domino, elbowplays

Bro I swear to god, I got chatguppy emails earlier and I was not happy about it hahaha

@premvintageband.bsky.social also showed up on the monstrous new @gamegrooves.com album "Konged Loose". It was produced by @ropanuganti.com & @drewbertisms.bsky.social and it's just phenomenal!

gamegrooves.bandcamp.com/track/gang-p...

So those channels nailing that super higher CPM rate are why the average trends higher; whereas music is very much on the low side - especially now that Shorts are so prominent & all the YTM funding was essentially reallocated to that format.

It’s because they take an average and apply it, so with longer form content being the largest % of monetised content on the platform, naturally this carries higher CPM rates, because longer videos typically have more per user watch time, which further drives ads.

CPM rates ($ per 1K views) vary drastically based on several factors - channel location (certain countries have diff rates due to their currency value vs. $USD), primary demographics, watch time, ad partners displaying on content just to name a few.