Comments on: The X Factor: Social media and the live shows – Week 6 [infographic]

By: The X Factor: Social media points to a Little Mix victory – Week 8 [infographic] | The Wall Blog

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:21:35 +0000

[...] and Janet received less than 10,000 new fans – which goes to strengthen the question we raised in Week 6: was the audience beginning to lose interest in those two [...]

By: The X Factor: Social media and the live shows – Week 7 [infographic] | The Wall Blog

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:33:51 +0000

[...] in engagement across social media during the more controversial weeks of the show (Week 5 and 6). Without seeing the official viewing figures for this weeks shows, the numbers would indicate [...]

By: blackfridaycanoneost3i

blackfridaycanoneost3i — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:51:57 +0000

So, are people becoming disenchanted with the 17 year-old Irish girl? Did she peak too soon? Janet certainly started the live shows as one of, if not the, favourite to win. She gained a large social audience thanks to her significant media coverage during the audition stages (compared to everyone else remaining in the competition). When added to her online audience thanks to her popularity as a YouTube vlogger / singer prior to the show, it gave her a bigger initial audience from which to grow and progress through the competition than others. She also appears to have more Black Friday Canon EOS T3i emails sent about her via ITV’s email marketing (in which viewers need to sign up before being able to view the programme live on ITV’s website), as well as her performances being featured as the landing video on the programme’s YouTube channel more often than her peers.