Hey guys and gals!! I just wanted to let you know that I just hit a QUARTER OF A BILLION video views on YouTube! That’s “like” 250 million views or 250,000,000!!! The equivalent to the world’s total population in the year 1 A.D.!If I was living back then, then every single person in the entire world would have seen my videos, but would they all have had Internet? Hmmmm…I wonder… Oh.. sorry.. got off track there!
Since I get asked this question EVERY SINGLE DAY “How can your views be less than your ratings? Or comments?” Or, since I get accused of creating view-count-fraud, I thought it might be a good idea to tell you how the views are counted on YouTube and how the ratings and comments can get ahead of the views as well. I might actually make a video about this in the near future as the confusion seems to happen most on YouTube itself.
So, here goes.
When a video is uploaded to YouTube, the view counter is pretty much real-time. The ratings counter is also real-time as well as the comment counter. But then ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE when the views hit around 308 views!
At around 308 views, the VIEW COUNTER STOPS COUNTING while the Ratings and Comments counters continue to tabulate.
The views counter WILL NOT UPDATE FOR ANOTHER 4 to 6 hours, while the ratings and comments continue to increase in real-time.
At this point, take a look at the comments on any video experiencing this and you will see “VIEW COUNT FRAUD!!!” “RATINGS FRAUD!!!!” ”FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD!!!!”
Those comments will be followed by others explaining that the views don’t update in real-time.. but right below those comments will be another stream of “VIEW COUNT FRAUD” comments.
So, what is going on here?
Well, I think the view-counting delay is caused by YouTube analyzing views to see what views are real and what views are fake. The 308 view count number is a little higher than the 207 count number that the counter used to freeze at, but I think that YouTube actually starts analyzing views at 307 and they don’t publish an update until they have determined what views are legitimate and what views are fake. This prevents people from taking over the most viewed pages with fake views.
As an example of fake views in the past, there was a guy who created a gossip channel last year. He took his videos and embedded them 200 times on his MySpace page with autoplay on and then hit reload repeatedly. He managed to get to the most viewed page time and time again until YouTube shut him down for terms of use violations. This delay in counting views is a direct result of these kinds of abuses of the system.
So, that’s what’s going on with the view counts being less than the ratings and comment counts. Don’t freak out if your views freeze for even as long as a whole day! YouTube is not messing with you.. they are just analyzing your views before they publish an updated number.
If you have any additional questions about this or other things about YouTube, let me know in the comments below.
More than two years after Google acquired YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don’t offset YouTube’s expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage.
YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between $90 million and $240 million.
Check this out… I am the 19th most watched channel on all of YouTube FOR ALL TIME!
THIS IS ACCUMULATED, TOTAL VIEWS.
Each month I am usually near the top of most viewed, this just means that I am catching up to, and passing the other channels that were around much longer than my channel.
Take a look at the names around me and you’ll see that that is a pretty awesome feat, if I may say so myself!
I just wanted to share this with you as I was excited when I saw it today
Here is a bumper I shot for YouTube Live that will be happening tonight at 5pm PST.
And another one.
I will be roaming around back stage at the event tonight with a microphone commenting on what’s going on, interviewing people… and who knows what else I’ll be doing!
So be sure to tune in to YouTube Live tonight at 5pm PST (perhaps earlier, as I may be doing some of my stuff prior to the live show as well!)
Hey guys and gals!! I just wanted to let you know that I just hit a QUARTER OF A BILLION video views on YouTube! That’s “like” 250 million views or 250,000,000!!! The equivalent to the world’s total population in the year 1 A.D.! If I was living back then, then every single person in the entire world would have seen my videos, but would they all have had Internet? Hmmmm…I wonder… Oh.. sorry.. got off track there!
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