[Bluerang1]

How much would be needed for one person to change the outcome of the voting results? How much would they need to concentrate on the housemate they want to evict or save to ensure what they want comes to pass? How much does C5 even make from the votes?

[Jords]

I do wonder how many votes a typical eviction receives. It cant be many 1000s? To be honest I dont know anybody that votes in reality TV shows. I assume finals get a lot more.

[billy123]

They rarely give anything away with C5 voting figures but i dare say if every tibb member that has logged onto this board so far this series voted 20 times to save the same housemate it really wouldnt even dent the result.
If 20% of a 1.5 million audience voted which sounds feasible that would be 300,000 votes.

A huge majority of the audience wouldnt even be aware of the existence of any BB forums.

[Locke.]

Well I doubt they'd get many votes at all for these nominations, who is dumb enough to spend their hard earned money just on nominations when the show has been on for 2 days? Anymore than 1000 votes and I'd be surprised.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Well I doubt they'd get many votes at all for these nominations, who is dumb enough to spend their hard earned money just on nominations when the show has been on for 2 days? Anymore than 1000 votes and I'd be surprised.

Thats 0.066% of a 1.5 million audience I might of been a bit optimistic with 20% but it will be far higher than that i would have thought.
But who knows.

[jyunga]

They probably get over 100k votes easily. Lots of viewers probably vote more then once.

[Dash Darington]

100k is probably in the ballpark. If you voted 1000 times, you could shift the vote by 1%. Basically, one person isn't going to change the outcome.

[Benjamin]

They used to get over a good half a million, sometimes even over a million in some evictions on C4. I think the final of BB3 and BB4 there were near enough 5/6 million votes cast for each final week iirc.

Now I'd say about 200,000 or less.

[Omah]

24 November 2011, 10:50AM

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/11...dience-votes/?

Channel 5 has revealed that close to two million votes were cast during 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother'.

Some 1.5 million votes were cast during nine weeks of 'Big Brother ', 47% of which were through the 'Big Brother' Facebook app.

Channel 5 received around 500,000 votes for 'Celebrity Big Brother' through its telephone services.

15 February 2012, 9:06am

http://mediaweek.co.uk/news/1117158/...y-Big-Brother/

Channel 5, the Northern & Shell-owned TV channel, has revealed a big increase in the number of votes cast for 'Celebrity Big Brother' between its first and second series, thanks partly to the addition of Facebook voting.

According to numbers supplied by Channel 5, during the three-week series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' in January fans voted around 700,000 times, just over 30% of which were through the 'Celebrity Big Brother' Facebook app.

The addition of Facebook voting helped increase the number of votes by around 300,000 when compared with last year’s series of 'Celebrity Big Brother', a rise of more than 70%, although the number of phone votes increased too.

Initial estimates suggested last year's 'Celebrity Big Brother' had around 500,000 votes but Channel 5 has now confirmed the figure was actually around 100,000 lower.

Channel 5 introduced the Facebook app for the traditional 'Big Brother' series in September last year. The app allows fans to vote in the series as well as read news about the show and look at photographs.

Phone votes cost 36p and Facebook votes cost either 7p for a single vote via PayPal or Ł1 for a bundle of votes via other payment mechanisms. It is not known what Channel 5's cut of the revenue was.

[karezza]

Current voting:

Sallie 58 votes
Gina 49
Jemima 22
Sam 20

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Ben

They used to get over a good half a million, sometimes even over a million in some evictions on C4. I think the final of BB3 and BB4 there were near enough 5/6 million votes cast for each final week iirc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4586995.stm

According to programme-makers Endemol, there were 6,363,325 votes cast during the 2004 live final of Big Brother 5.

Presumably, they were all phone votes, too .....

[GiRTh]

It takes far more money than any of you have got to influence this vote.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4586995.stm





Presumably, they were all phone votes, too .....

Yeah, back then for BB1 - BB6 I think it was just phone votes. The total votes for the whole series must have been close to 15/16 million.

I just remembered when BB2/BB3 had live feed and if you pushed the red button it would give you the option to choose which camera you watched. I miss that.

[Gstar]

Can we still vote through paypal?

[Omah]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

It takes far more money than any of you have got to influence this vote.

Even if I had the money, I wouldn't spend it on C5 BB .....

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Germyle

Can we still vote through paypal?

If you mean through facebook then nope

[Adamw92]

No more facebook voting?

[ThisIsNickkk]

Didn't Facebook voting get suspended like half way through one of the series' last year? It just kept breaking and I remember they did a refund at one point as well?