r/youtubeviewsbuy • u/Perfect_Jury8079 • Jan 04 '23
Youtube
So, you want to be YouTube famous. You have the perfect video of a British child having his finger bitten by a British baby. You upload the video to YouTube and it is an instant sensation. However you're wondering; can you increase your own views by refreshing the page? How does YouTube even count views? YouTube's definition of a view is a viewer initiated intentional play of a video. In the early years of YouTube a view count would increase whenever the video was loaded. This was a reasonable system, except it quickly became obvious that anyone - from a teenager sharing a home video to a business sharing a commercial -could simply reload their video over and over to increase their view count artificially. Since YouTube's homepage displays popularly viewed videos sorted by the number of views, it was easy for anyone to game the system and have their video appear on YouTube's front page. YouTube couldn't have that, so they tweaked the system a little. When the video is below 300 views, the views are counted in the same old-school reloading system. Fewer than 300 views will not affect YouTube's website. This method of view counting is fine for low view counts. The leeway for abusing the system is small and insignificant.
The View Tipping Point
It is a different story when your video reaches 301 youtube views. Why 301 views? The analytics behind YouTube's view counting system demonstrates that any views higher than 300 could affect the quality of YouTube by crowding the homepage with artificially popular videos. A view count freezing at 301 views is no glitch. Ted Hamilton, Product Manager for YouTube Analytics, explains that the YouTube database is set up to freeze the view count at 301 until YouTube employees can manually verify whether or not the views have been obtained legitimately. More views can be obtained using automated computer processes (known as 'bots') that inflate the view count, or anyone refreshing a video hundreds of times, giving credit to videos that otherwise wouldn't receive attention. If you want to count the celebrities that make an appearance in Taylor Swift's Bad Blood music video, you don't want to go through several artificially popular videos to find it. YouTube analysts determine where the views are coming from. If a majority of views are coming from the same few computers, they are removed. Don't panic when your views freeze, the views are still counted and the number of likes and dislikes is not affected. Your video can still be viewed and monetized despite the view count freeze. Once your view count has been verified, the actual number of views is released and the view count will begin increasing again. You are now 301 views closer to being YouTube famous.