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Their view botting is insanely obvious. I found these videos in 30 seconds, all over 1m views and less than 20 comments. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdaz
by IceHegel 5y ago
Their view botting is insanely obvious. I found these videos in 30 seconds, all over 1m views and less than 20 comments.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdazNWPT-aM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdazNWPT-aM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZlYPzMJ28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZlYPzMJ28
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWg6kF-y6d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWg6kF-y6d4
- Sebb767 5y agoI'm surprised YouTube doesn't crack down on this. On the other hand, they might have just asked for a closer inspection.
- muglug 5y agoI bet placing an advert as a pre-roll counts towards a YouTube video's view count. That would explain the format of the last video — a brief teaser for that 5-second countdown. I bet Ozy has next-to-zero organic traffic to any of its properties.
- bambax 5y agoYouTube doesn't crack down on anything unless they positively, absolutely have to in order to avoid a full-scale scandal.
- jonas21 5y agoIt's not necessarily bots. They could just be buying views with ads.
- IceHegel 5y agoTheir COO pretended to work for YouTube. After something like that, you lose the benefit of the doubt.