[President]

Thanks to BB SPY:

We can reveal today that approximately 3 million votes were cast throughout Big Brother 9 last year, an increase of around 50% on BB8’s total.

Figures in Channel 4’s annual report for 2008, which was released today, show that £300,000 was split between BB9’s nominated charities - Scope, PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

At least 10p from every 35p vote was split between the charities, which means that up to 3 million votes were cast over the entire series.

This is an increase of approximately 1 million over the previous series. Big Brother 8 raised £200,000, again with ‘at least’ 10p per call going to charity, meaning at most 2 million votes were cast.

Following the premium rate phone-line scandals which affected the TV industry in early 2007, and Channel 4 dropping text and interactive voting, BB8’s total figure was significantly down on that of Big Brother 7.

The series raised a total of £1.3m for charity in 2006, with just over £250,000 coming from the controversial vote to bring back ex-housemates which saw C4 donate all profits (28p for texts, 36p for calls) to charity from over 750,000 votes. At least a further 10m votes were cast across the rest of the series.

Since 2001, Big Brother voting has raised around £5m for charities through voting from BB2, BB7-9, all Celebrity series, and E4’s Big Brother Celebrity Hijack.

In other series, which did not raise money for charity, voting peaked at 22.7m in BB3, but BB6 saw a significant fall, resulting in C4 not realeasing any data for that year.
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No wonder we get all these shock results nowadays. It's because there's so few people voting!

[Annie]

Shouldnt really be in this BB10 forum.

[President]

Originally posted by Annie
Shouldnt really be in this BB10 forum.

Ahhhh, crap. I'm sure the mods can move it to the correct one.

Sorry about that

[jaybitches]

Originally posted by Annie
Shouldnt really be in this BB10 forum.

Ehh does it matter??

[Annie]

Originally posted by jaybitches

Ehh does it matter??

Yes it does. Its not BB10 relevant. It should be in BB General or BB in the Media. So that people could look for it in there if they were interested in ratings etc.

[\PJ/]

Originally posted by jaybitches

Ehh does it matter??

Stop making arguments.

[jaybitches]

Nah :P

[Locke.]

Understandable, there were plenty of housemates that a lot of people hated during BB9. I even voted quite a bit last year.

[*mazedsalv**]

I knew it!
I remember BB8 not many people were talking about voting people out. There were never any threads about voting. In BB9, I remember Stephs eviction must have had loads of votes, there were lots of people voting on the forums, and I voted lots too. Also on the C4 website, there were loads of HM supporters, every week, there would be a "Who are you evicting?" thread.

Im happy that the voting figures were higher in BB9, means that more people were voting as a % considering BB9 was watched by 300,000 less than BB8.

[Arneldo]

3 million is not a lot, especially knowing that 2,127,733 votes were cast to evict Adele in BB3, with 3.2 million votes being cast during one eviction.

Perhaps it would be best for them to cancel phone voting altogether and instead have free online voting, similar to BB in Brazil.

[Sam!]

Originally posted by Arneldo
3 million is not a lot, especially knowing that 2,127,733 votes were cast to evict Adele in BB3, with 3.2 million votes being cast during one eviction.

Perhaps it would be best for them to cancel phone voting altogether and instead have free online voting, similar to BB in Brazil.

Yehh I like that idea.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Arneldo
3 million is not a lot, especially knowing that 2,127,733 votes were cast to evict Adele in BB3, with 3.2 million votes being cast during one eviction.

Perhaps it would be best for them to cancel phone voting altogether and instead have free online voting, similar to BB in Brazil.

I know but compared to BB8's 2 million with 3.9m people watching, over 3 million is good for something being watched by 3.6m people.

[Spike]

Well at least that something positive about BB9

[podge2007]

In BB9 there were more evictions. In BB8 there was the cancelled eviction because Emily was removed and Charley's fake eviction which a lot of people probably didn't bother to vote in because they knew she'd be coming back. In week 9 of BB8 there was the David/Shanessa eviction which most people didn't care about. BB9 had much more divisive evictions eg. Mario Vs Steph, Mario vs. Rebecca, Lisa vs Sara and so on.

The voting figure pale in comparison to previous year's. More votes were probably cast for Jade to win BB3 than the final 7 of BB9 put together. With all the multi-voting that goes on nowadays very few people vote in evictions, so some hms mightn't be as disliked by the general public as their eviction percentage suggests.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by podge2007
In BB9 there were more evictions. In BB8 there was the cancelled eviction because Emily was removed and Charley's fake eviction which a lot of people probably didn't bother to vote in because they knew she'd be coming back. In week 9 of BB8 there was the David/Shanessa eviction which most people didn't care about. BB9 had much more divisive evictions eg. Mario Vs Steph, Mario vs. Rebecca, Lisa vs Sara and so on.

The voting figure pale in comparison to previous year's. More votes were probably cast for Jade to win BB3 than the final 7 of BB9 put together. With all the multi-voting that goes on nowadays very few people vote in evictions, so some hms mightn't be as disliked by the general public as their eviction percentage suggests.

Yeah, and Sezer'e 91.6% of the vote could have been of a total 2 million that week, which would mean that he would have got about 1.8m of the 2m votes. But for Nicole's record % of 94.04%, her % could have been only out of about 100,000 votes, which would mean she would have had about 95,000 votes, which isnt much, but her % made her look HUGELY unpopular, yes she was compared to Sara and Lisa but she wasnt voted for much. If that makes any sense.

But at least BB9's higher figures makes BB9 look good, less people were watching, but more people were voting compared to BB8.