Coin-per-view: the Bilibili metric that beats subscriber count for creator vetting

If you've ever sponsored a YouTube creator and been disappointed by the ROI, you've already lived through what subscriber count actually measures: not engagement, not influence, not purchase intent. Just historical clicks on a follow button. Many of those followers stopped opening videos two years ago. Some are inactive accounts. Some followed for a single piece of content that has nothing to do with your brand. This is universally true on creator platforms, but it's especially true on Bilibili