Your analysis is based on what?Google traffic?
This year's WCOOP would have less prizes than last year.I hate to tell,but the pandemics is still on atm and people dont have the money anymore,or they use it for something else.It would have been a boom if those players continued to play since march,where 250.000-300.000 players played similar,but now it's lower than last year.
Few examples: Bounty builder 44(last year 60-65k on average,now 52-53k)
Bounty builder 109( 95-120k last year,75-80k now)
Bounty builder 33(85-110k last year,60-70k now)
And i can keep on going with these examples.
Overlaying so many tournaments have two posibilities: either people dont have money anymore or there just not enough recs

It's not quite so simple. If the stadium series wasn't being held the examples you offered would have higher numbers. If Pstars didn't offer 15 different games/spins/6 card holdem then those examples you gave would be doing better. If GG didn't exist those examples would be doing better. etc.

They have ran 3 or 4 big series back to back to back hardly surprising this one got hit by overlay they are being too greedy.

yeah,something like this

You are right that people are running out of money during the pandemic.
But the interesst in online poker is still on a rise. Mainly because pokersites finally decided to approach advertisment on twitch & youtube more aggressive by buying content creator and streaming themselves instead of sponsoring a popular sports star who has nothing to do with gaming or poker.

Also implementing the stream of streamers in the client (the rail) helps viewer counts a lot + having the chance to get money for watching streams. I think party poker and GGPoker will implement a similar function in the future too.

Also it has been ~17 years since the poker boom which means there is an entire new generation about to become 18 years old.

I think something which makes poker very interessting for eSports players is that you can play the game at any age. Which is something which isnt possible in normal eSports games. You only have ~10-15 years to compete at the highest level in eSports which means that a lot of eSports pros could make the switch to games like poker when they become older.

What needs to happen to get another big and fast poker boom is that one of these hugh content creators wins something big with his sponsored ticket & main stream media picking up the story.

Is it true, that GG has overtaken Stars in tournaments and the platform is generally more enjoyable and fun.

no

GGPoker has overtaken Stars in numbers of players online by far, but the tournaments on Stars are still bigger.
But GGPoker also had 8 tournaments which reached the maximum entrants of 3000 yesterday.

On the other side Stars is absolutely crushing Twitch right now.

But also keep in mind that GGPoker has a lot of server problems which they havent really fixed yet.

I can't even play GGPoker without my laptop becoming a screeching sloth. I7/8GB ram, Acer F5 for 900€ from 2016. Am I that wrong expecting it to just run with no hassle?

Do you know what atracts new players to the game?
1.Immediate winnings and fast cashouts
2.Good promotions with a good rakeback form
3.Good customer service(i.e answearing to emails in a day or two)
4.Good poker client with some enjoyable features
I could bring some more things to this list,but at least those should work.

I managed to convince some of my friends that they should play on pokerstars instead of casinos.When they realised that after several deposits they lose no matter what they did(it wasnt a big issue),then after a winning they wanted to withdrawal,they saw that they are forced to wait to multiple days or weeks in order to get their money on the bank account,plus they got only promotions for weekly freeroll with non existent rakeback.The conclussion?They gave up on stars and went back to local casinos,because degens like to feel the cash or to receive the money right away and to be threated with respect.These are the reasons why recs or degens disapear from pokerstars,including with the economic crysis that it's yet to begin.
Not only the poker will suffer from all of this,but the game will be infested with nothing but regs,maybe bots and charts users where it will be even harder to win some money,therefore poor regs will gave up on the games as well.So it wont be any poker boom or maybe they move on to party/ggpoker.I could not know this,as i cant access to those rooms,although many players from my country are using VPN to play on those rooms.

btw who's interested; Right after stadium series stars launched Micro Millions on stars.es
2.13. Aug, 2.5M$ Gtd
ME 50€ PKO w 300k€ Gtd

Anybody can advise on some rakeback options. Nothing left on Stars ?

lol at the afterparty stadium series phase events. Just give it up and focus on WCOOP

Any details on wcoops...
Dates?

Non Turbo -> 6 min Levels
Turbo -> 3 min Levels
Hyper Turbo -> 2 min levels

RiP SnGs.

I thought that running stadium series parallel to the WSOP online events is stupid or even condescending on Pokerstars side. I rather invested a buyin into one of the WSOP events outside of the bankroll than than ever playing a 500$ event on Stars just for fun. I get that you dont want to leave the playingfield your competitor but I found that the day1s of the WSOP on GG had plenty of recreational players so its quite possible that recreationals looked at their money and went with the WSOP in July.
Overall I also dont think that the 5k buyin players are the clientele that needed that free money in form of overlays. You could have easily just run double gtd week on the small/midstakes or simply "added" prizemoney to the prizepools on these stakes. It probably would have had a larger impact.

With SCOOP being extended + Summer Series + Stadium Series in such a short period of time it is definitely a bit too much.

Some stuff from Stadium Series they should use for the COOPs going forward, the feature tables on twitch and the FT shows were great.

They also badly need to bring back SCOOP watches and WCOOP bracelets, especially with so many random series they are running they need a way to distinguish the COOPs from the others. Especially if GG continues to run WSOP or WSOP Circut events in the future giving out bracelets and rings.

+1 on this

+1
Also having a lot of spotlight on successful online poker players and making them a rolemodel is essential to motivate new players to try to archive the same.
I think twitch streams are fine, but there needs to be more backround information about the players at a final table. Pretty much the stuff we see every year at the WSOP final table where the players get indroduced before the final table starts.

Almost every person knows the best chess players in the world. But in poker people who dont play the game, still think that people like Negreanu or Phil Hellmouth are the best Poker players, because they are the loudest.

Stars should even consider giving their most popular players like C.Darwin2, Lena900 etc. contracts, because they gained a hugh amount of clout in the past ~5 years due to twitch streams.

Also stuff like special avatars or badges next to the avatar for winning specific tournaments like the Sunday Million, a Scoop Event, WCOOP Event etc. would be a motivation for people to play more events.

+1

I have doubts than C.Darwin2 or Lena900,Graftekel or even Bencb would ever consider turning into a red pro.They just passed that phase because a red pro usually plays smaller tournaments,which they obviously dont.

If someone from stars see this :
What there a reason to change the structure of Bounty Builder 33 turbo on demand from 44minutes late registration to 50 minutes?6minutes extra means 2 more blind levels
And did you change the tournament name and put the guaranted prize into the middle,so we can not track the leaderboards on sharkscope?
Why did you add another rebuy for this tournament?One reentry wasnt enough?
All these means that in the evening,we will have less tournaments to play

quick question please

Does Pokerstars have auto timebank? I read that it does only if you have money invested in the pot, is that right?

depends on the game.On mtt it is automatic,on spin and go if you have the mouse cursor on other side(i.e. browsing web) you will be put on sitout before timeback.Very smart move from mpov

I'm interested for MTTs only, so even if you're browsing the web/having action on other tables, the auto timebank is automatic? Even preflop?