Comments on: Does Google Know How To Count? Some YouTube Views Don’t Seem To Register

By: Paul MIchael

Paul MIchael — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:32:09 +0000

The counter on this video is stuck

http://www.yout...h?v=zd9zwSp5w-E

By: Paul MIchael

Paul MIchael — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:29:59 +0000

he hit counter on video is stuck!

By: Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:10:17 +0000

same thing happened to me and video has been stuck on 307 for 3 weeks…. has yours gone up at all?

By: Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:08:44 +0000

yeah! that happened to me too. I posted a video and by the next day it had 307 views. its been 3 weeks and guess what my view count is….. 307 views……. kinda pisses me off

By: ABC

ABC — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:26:49 +0000

Question that relates to the view count.

What qualifies as a view?

Does clicking play, letting it run for a few seconds count the same as clicking play and watching the video in its entirety?

Does it have to stream for a certain percentage of the total time to qualify as a count?

Thanks

By: Hill

Hill — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:02 +0000

My view count for my video has been stuck for 3 days at 359. It’s been embedded on various other sites and different links have been used to promote this video. So, now I don’t if the count isn’t going up because most people are watching the video through an embedded site or if the view count is just totally stuck. I am totally frustrated. This is the video. It’s really funny.

http://www.yout...h?v=ePgFKgTtWr4

By: Silky babe

Silky babe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:39:55 +0000

Honey,

Chk this out…its hilarious and crunk at the same time!!

http://www.yout...h?v=1k4LcGfhf6s

By: Does Google Know How To Count? Some YouTube Views Don’t Seem To Register | eRepublik

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:06 +0000

[...] A large portion of YouTube videos are watched on other sites in embeddable players (like the one below of eRepublik CEO Alexis Bonte giving us an Elevator Pitch). But if someone watches a YouTube video on a site other than YouTube, does it count towards the total views of that video? Apparently not, or at least not always. Read article [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:11:47 +0000

I’ll tell you why they have gotten rid of the view counters….one word, suppression. They want to suppress the popularity of truth videos like The Obama Deception and EndGame…. They don’t want to show how many millions and millions of views these information bombs hitting the New World Order are having on the status quo establishment. Google is a whore for the NWO and they have shown their hand over and over and over again. Their days are numbered and trying to suppress the truth by removing view counters is pathetic and laughable.

By: steven

steven — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:09:30 +0000

http://www.yout...h?v=IaAB4mq_k0o

By: steven

steven — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:08:21 +0000

I made my first video on friday night !!!! by 11 a.m this morning(sunday) it said 308 views !!! since then i have shared it with many friends on facebook Some of who have also since shared it with there friends !! I know for a fact that atleast 20 people have seen it since then !!(thats what i know off,surely this number is in reality far higher) sooo yeah that was like 7 hours ago and it still says 308 views !!!!! WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY ????

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:18:13 +0000

It’s not only on YT that google shows its lack of skill at Math!
Orkut, too has a serious accounting problem hehe

By: Lar

Lar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:18:51 +0000

http://www.yout...h?v=pmPbvYX3tug

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:26:01 +0000

They are trying to save some money. With the Viacom fiasco lurking,they don't want to add more views to possible copyright material (and then have to end up paying more money for it)

By: M

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:14:56 +0000

Of course, the view count don’t get updated real time. Is this a news on Techcrunch? And I thought it was a tech blog.

By: avi

avi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:52:51 +0000

test

By: Czar

Czar — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:09:01 +0000

Of course! Google does know how to count. But they count very slow…like if you’re watching a video clip right now, your view will be counted next week or next, next week. The hell…

By: Titanas

Titanas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:36:00 +0000

YouTube knows how to count with a twist which doesn’t make any sense. If you want to see the correct number of views you have to be logged in and check the views from My Account / My Videos. The views are always updated there but the updates take a while to appear under the player. Caching or something?

By: About New Media » Blog Archive » Avril Lavigne Breaks YouTube Record

About New Media » Blog Archive » Avril Lavigne Breaks YouTube Record — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:42:02 +0000

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By: 학주니의 인터넷 로그 » 2008-07-20 마가린 북마크입니다.

학주니의 인터넷 로그 » 2008-07-20 마가린 북마크입니다. — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:39:59 +0000

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By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:38:34 +0000

Totally Correct ! This is Google … Huh ?

By: David Eaves

David Eaves — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:18 +0000

I think the way they hide the links to the top referrers is lame (they send no traffic – even on very popular videos). IMO YouTube/Google should give something back to the people promoting their videos and show the top referrers in full-view. I believe this could work in Youtube’s favour. Even more poeple would want to promote YouTube videos.

Also they use nofollow on the links to the sites that send them traffic. Not getting traffic from the links wouldn’t be too bad if you were getting a proper link that could help with SEO.

Give something back YouTube!

By: Steve A.

Steve A. — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:17:45 +0000

You can’t honestly believe that by hitting play, the video gets a hit count?
You have to watch over half of it to be considered a view and
that was 1 year ago, they may have change the way they count views now.

By: Neyma Jahansooz

Neyma Jahansooz — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:33:20 +0000

One of the biggest abusers of the Auto-play view count feature was this video
http://www.yout...h?v=LpAI8TzQDes

which was at one point was placed on the IMVU homepage on Auto-play in a small box in the corner – and it is a silent video – meaning every single time an IMVU user came to login – they racked up a view and soon it had over 70 million. Must have had some stanford students advising them or something….

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:08:15 +0000

yeah f**k Google since it’s a major Internet player, Microsoft since it the major software vendor, Yahoo and Apple will be next… IBM is the big bad blue..

Windows permitted the development of hundreds of thousand of companies and a globally shared interface

Google permitted to reach billions of webpages and to start hundreds of thousands of online companies

it’s rarely the best solution for a long time, but it is what allows a continuous development of companies, products and services.

There are still webpages that don’t display properly in Safari or Firefox, what if we had hundreds of browsers?

A single company domination in a specific market for a certain period of time definitely kills hundreds of other companies, some with better products, but allows the development of hundreds of thousands of them.

See it in the long term…

Also, I am sorry but I don’t get the point of the article, you have discovered that YouTube doesn’t count clicks from embedded videos and you’re saying Google doesn’t know how to count? Ok, it’s your opinion and I respect it.

But what’s your point? What are the consequences?

By the way, if embedded videos were counted, you could easily duplicate the pages and have them reload all day.. this would ruin all the ranking systems having a huge impact on their advertisement credibility. (as for Avril videos as mentioned by Anon). So not counting them is giving YouTube more control over the rankings and better credibility.