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So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams. The bigger pictur
by riprowan 10y ago
So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams.
The bigger picture is virality. Nobody wants to watch your video with 100 views. Same video with 10M views, now everyone has to watch it.
The music business has been doing this so much for so long that it's to the point where I automatically distrust everything that's "popular" as having been gamed.
- jcfrei 10y agoCan you elaborate how the music business is cheating? Are they tampering with the charts?
- hiccup 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
- techer 10y agoThis is a decent place to find videos that haven't been gamed: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/
- sangnoir 10y agoI'm not sure how big that subreddit is, but it sounds like the place I'd go to get views - that is game my videos if I were unscrupulous.
- angry-hacker 10y agoJust like the old-school radio scam, where radio DJ's were paid to say they played certain songs but they didn't. Then people created charts using that data and paid artists found themselves popular... system(s) have been always gamed :)