b'Webwaves WebwavesIan James ASEG Webmaster webmaster@aseg.org.auReview of the ASEG YouTube channel.In 2020, with in-person technicalFigure 1.ASEG YouTube viewers by age and gender.talks cancelled, the ASEG moved to streaming technical talks using Zoom. Additionally, where the presenterViewer location returns some interesting consented, recordings were posted onresults by absolute viewer numbers. India the ASEG YouTube channel (https:// is top with 1586 views, with an average www.youtube.com/c/ASEGVideos).view duration of only 44 seconds, which During this time 37 videos have beenis very short. When sorted based on made freely available for the widerwatch time - a more representative community to watch, a rate of close tometric - Australia has the most hours, one upload every ten days. followed by the USA, UK, India and The growth of the channel has beenCanada. encouraging, with 229 subscribers in the past year, and 944.8 hours of contentTop ASEG videos in the past year.watched across 12 500 views (averageFigure 2.ASEG YouTube viewers by location and view duration of 4:32). Moreover, theA look at the ASEG videos on YouTubewatch time.ASEG channel has created 373 500highlights the breadth of content that impressions (number of times ourhas been presented in the past year, video thumbnails have been shown towith a spread between academia,2nd PlaceYouTube users), with a click throughindustry and covering a wide rangeTitle: The application of 2.5D AEM rate of 1.1%. This resulted in 4200 viewsof geophysical topics. Below is someinversion to resource exploration with with an average view duration of 5:32.information on our most popular threereference to open file survey examples Of these impressions, 82.1% of viewsvideos. from NSW, QLD and WAcame from YouTube recommending ourPresenter: Rob Patersoncontent to users. 3rd Place Link: https://youtu.be/UbHXv4Xm-k0Title: End-to-end seismic inversion ofViews: 880YouTube produces generalised statisticsgeostatistically complex reservoir faciesComments: Robs presentation based on their knowledge of viewersmodels with deep convolutional neuralis ourmost viewed non-seismic age and gender. For the ASEG channel,networks talk anditis great to see an AEM women are more likely to watch thePresenter: Anshuman Pradhan, Stanfordinversiontalk so well received. The content for longer. This is particularlyUniversity largest source of views for this video apparent with the older cohorts 55,Link: https://youtu.be/ewcWgi-bXnU are from YouTube recommendations where we have a greater watch timeViews: 642 tousers.from women than men. Overall, theComments: Anshumans talk still YouTube channel shows marginallyreceives daily views 275 days after first1st Placemore gender equality than the ASEGbeing published. It is most likely toTitle: Pre-stack Depth Imaging: website, with females contributingbe viewed from people on LinkedIn,Challenges in exploration-scale volcanic 35.6% (by watch time). Encouragingly,highlighting the value in social mediageobody model-building in the Potiguar the channel also appeals to theadvertising content. Over three quartersBasin, Brazilyounger generations, with considerableof views are from various LinkedInPresenter: Rich Bartlettviewership in the 18-24 cohort. sources. Link: https://youtu.be/hJh3OzHbHRcJUNE 2021 PREVIEW 46'