Main video on the Youtube homepage for 2+ days is a big step up from previous years' imo

Oh did they? I'm not sure, I just vaguely remember ads normally starting a few days before launch. Could be wrong but I never noticed them if they did start sooner

Eh? Even when I was smaller I remember being bombarded with eye flashes and countdown promos all the time on C4?!

They had loads of promo, but how far in advance of the launch was it?

You must not have been reading the forum much these last few days then, cause they most certainly do :joker:

About a month prior to the launch is when eye flashes started appearing and I remember there would also always be a steady stream of rumours and promo happening in Heat

yep heat's not gonna happen for BB in 2016 :hehe:

Everyone acknowledges C5 prefer CBB over BB though :shrug:

tbh in my everyday life i didn't see any CBB17 promotion.

Oh. I stand corrected then :laugh:

That's not what I was on about anyway? :suspect:
We were talking about how much C4 promoted it luv

Not everyone, you'd be surprised...

fair enough.

i think people shouldn't really take the promotion too seriously tho. I'm quite sure most people who would have wanted to give BB a go, would have done so between 2000 and 2006 when it was relevant and got 5m viewers.

Most of channel 5's target audience were probably too young to get into BB back then though

I've never seen anyone say otherwise tbh

You'd think five years into C5's tenure with the show it would be obvious to everyone (I mean it was from the very start) but again, it's not the case!

Read some of the threads from the last week back. People seem to like deluding themselves into thinking that C5 promoting CBB more, providing more live feed for it and various other things is because 'it's more popular', as if that just happens on its own :joker:

Yes put a Criminal in
then BBC with get all Moral


Debated on Question Time, as well
please Marsh

:clap1:

Too right arista

Well to be fair it kind of does. Every year from 2006 onwards on C4, CBB rated higher than the BB that followed that year, and I'd imagine that this is because of the fact more people watch TV in January, it's less of a commitment than normal BB, and celebs bring their own fanbases to the show.

And at the moment CBB is a far better show than BBUK

me neither, but i did see the video ad on the youtube homepage a week ago so i guess the promo for bb17 has been better from my perspective :shrug:

Well the race row started that off and the civilian show's gradual decline from BB8 onwards only continued the trend. I'm not saying C5's promotion of CBB is the only reason it's more popular, there are other factors like a celebrity-obsessed culture at play, but it certainly helps.

They should be throwing promotion and money and their flagging shows, not the ones that are already successful, this really should go without saying for any channel. The reason they don't do this for the civilian series has absolutely **** all to do with money or ratings, it is because they do. not. care. about it.

Because C5 ensure it is!!! Why can't you people see this

They do not and have never cared about the civilian series

yes, i usually find the housemates to be much more entertaining

kinda why i secretly wouldn't mind them sticking celebs into bb17 as was rumoured :blush:

Are you saying they deliberately make the normal BB crap? I don't get it like what could they possibly gain from that. Yes they've made some awful decisions regarding BB but in their eyes it was to try and improve the show. If BBUK got the same ratings as CBB they'd be loving it.
Also lets be real BB17 has had far better promotion than CBB17, all CBB17 had was short 10 second adverts and one billboard poster on the day of the launch, BB17 has had promoted tweets and a decent advert that was on the front page of YouTube and got more than 600k views on Facebook

Yeah C4 did promote better. They released the BB6 eye like 5 weeks before the launch and they started the countdowns 18 days before the launch - C5 only ever start it 7 days before and that's if they even decide to have countdowns.