I just started making a few YouTube videos. I have very few viewers and I haven't advertised at all. This lets me see how the numbers add up. For one thing,

I just started making a few YouTube videos. I have very few viewers and I haven't advertised at all. This lets me see how the numbers add up. For one thing, it is obvious that they don't add up properly. I live in Japan and after I upload a video I watch it once -- all the way through, just to make sure there was nothing strange happening when it gets re-encoded. I will go back to the video to respond to comments (err... one or two comments). My brother was in Saudi Arabia. He was nice enough to watch my videos. Once each, all the way through. He never sent any comments. Result: 39 views in Japan and 35 views in Saudi Arabia. I can say with almost no uncertainty that these numbers are incorrect. I don't have any other viewers in SE asia or middle eastern countries. Whatever is happening, these are not normal views. If YouTube are improving this situation, then that's good. But I have almost no faith in their analytics. Edit: Is Google reading??? Just checked again and now I have 27 views from Japan and 4 from Saudi -- which is probably about right (if you consider that every time I respond to a comment it counts as a "view").