English vtuber goes like this in term of popularity
1. Hololive EN, undisputed king. Gave popularity to the scene. They cultivated a fanbase that will support everyone else in the corpo. Basically untouchable.
2. Vshojo, formerly regarded as third biggest with ironmouse leading the helm. They dominate the twitch vtuber scene. Alot of people credit their success to poaching the biggest talents from Niji/other corpos. But ironmouse by herself pulls in crazy viewership and carrying the company
despite most of it being sleeping.
3. Independents: a lot of vtuber with no corpo affiliation makes up this space. Primarily streams on twitch and upload highlights on youtube. Filian is in this space. It used to be hard to place them, but with the release of Dokibird and Maid Mint into the wild, they are now cementing their 3rd place position, both of whom still retains strong viewership after what would be called "drama buff"
4. Phase Connect. Very loyal & dedicated fanbase with insane clipping amount ratio. Also belovingly known as the retardation corpo.
5. Nijisanji English, formerly #2, they lost some of their best streamers and even the one remains doesn't stream, even if you discount all the drama that soured the branding. At the moment the entire branch is being solo sustained by Scarle who pulls in a crazy amount of $100,000 in
superchat with about 500 average ccv, this woman is milking 2 red super per live viewer. Meloco actually pulls in hololive-tier viewership, but her streams are fully japanese and her audience are mostly japanese. I am disqualifying her from being counted as part of NijiEN.
6. Idol corp, still much much smaller than everyone else above them. They are doing well recently, but still much much smaller.
7. Everyone else are considered "micro" (a.k.a very very small) corpos with very low viewership, there are hundreds of these, V&U is one, these micro corpos usually died off after 3 years as they fail to penetrate the market and shitty leadership also usually follows with internal drama. Idol honestly was one of these but the CEO refused to let it die by having this small trick called "infinite money hack". They escaped this status and now doing somewhat well on their own.
having a lot of 3 views qualified for me. They used to rely solely on
in
enrose. But now Coni, Roca, Fuyo, Poko & Kai is doing really well. They really struck gold? silver? bronze? with gen 2. They lost some menheras, but they also gained some stable vtubers who should continue to gain viewership as time goes.
They are in danger of exploding after the brave move and everyone started being active on their PL, but that was months ago and nothing has changed yet.
I can not tell the future whether their vtubers will leave on-mass after contract runs out or can Aviel convince them to stay with the new totally transparent internet-lawyer-revised contracts.
But as of this moment/for the last 6 months, they are doing well.