Comments on: View Counts on YouTube

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:25:00 +0000

I can not have easily count to download a Video and Music.
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By: Dhivya Yogarajah

Dhivya Yogarajah — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:18:00 +0000

Hey, I’ve uploaded a video for an audition tape, and the view count should roughly show how many votes we’ll get for it. I’m just wondering whether watching a video from the same computer over and over again counts as multiple views?

By: luis augusto guimaraes

luis augusto guimaraes — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Hi, I’m having the same problem tracking views of some channels that made reviews of a game I made. For exemple, the counter shows 834, but the Statistics display a graphic going above 2k. Can I trust in the graphics then, that it marks the actual view count to be updated?

Thanks!

By: Last Cycle

Last Cycle — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0000

The reason why the count blocks, and obviously few people know why, is censoring prevention.Â

SomeÂ engineersÂ (analytical field) studied how a video view count was evolving until it get frozed, and more importantly how it continued AFTER.

First of all, not ALL video get blocked when reaching 300 somethings views, they get freezed according to the rate at which it gets view when its posted (is it fast or slow, how many potential views can it get) and according to the tags and wordsÂ accompanyingÂ the video.

Then there are three cases:Â
- When the video is “good” orÂ inoffensiveÂ (cute cat video or Lady Gaga), the count starts again eventually but the rate by which the views evolved is UNNATURAL : there are way more views than possible even if the video became popular
- When the video isÂ connotedÂ ”bad” ie. talks politics, critics youtube or else, the same happenned except the video get way less views than it should logically do
- When the video is fraudulent because of copyrightsÂ infringementÂ or is violent the approximate time it takes for the view counts to be unfrozen is the time the video gets REMOVED.
*Again if you video isÂ infringing but has a slow evolutions in the view counts it won’t get freezed or removed, and “pass through”

So what it means? That when Youtube detects a new video with a potential success it suspend the view counts. Officially it is to combat spam, BUT even in this case it means that they are CONTROLLING the videos, sometimes censoring it, but also addingÂ algorithms to multiply or divide the number of views your video gets.

I hope my friends will released their study on Internet which most of them can’t because of their jobs, for now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:19:00 +0000

She is a partner, of course she would say that it’s nothing. View fraud is common place amongst the very popular partners.

By: Robin Kliegman

Robin Kliegman — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:28:00 +0000

If you play the video on mute, could it be considered a fake view? Or what if you jump around a through the video? Is that added to the view counter?

By: youmustbecrazy

youmustbecrazy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:20:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure by, “shut him down for terms of use violations,” you meant, “made him a partner and now pays him money for doing pretty much the same thing.

By: Internet Geeks

Internet Geeks — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:02:00 +0000

I think this is no more a problem!

By: Ken Allan .Phillips

Ken Allan .Phillips — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:12:29 +0000

I know I am stepping into this half way, but this is the only link I have found that may be able to help answer my question. If I use a cloaking service to cloak my youtube video link (Viral URL), will my unique video page still get accurate views or will the views be blocked? Thanks in advance for any feedback you can offer!

By: rohman

rohman — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:35:04 +0000

nice article Poptropica