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Is this to juke the stats to make a video seem more popular than it is? If you divide that out it's about $0.05 per 20 views. I think you could ask somebody o
by pak 15y ago
Is this to juke the stats to make a video seem more popular than it is? If you divide that out it's about $0.05 per 20 views. I think you could ask somebody on Mechanical Turk to open 20 browser tabs and let them sit for 2 minutes with bids of about a nickel.
- thefool 15y agoThere are other benefits as well. Youtube promotes trending videos, so if you get a lot of views very quickly, particularly among a common demographic, then the video will be more heavily promoted, and is more likely to go viral. Similarly, videos with lots of view tend to appear higher in search results. I imagine that people at youtube are very aware of this, and put an effort into distinguishing ``real'' view (consistent demographic/trusted referer) and ``fake'' (spammy/ black hat SEO) views.
- corin_ 15y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I believe YouTube counts unique views, so 20 tabs would still be one view.
- redthrowaway 15y agoYoutube counts unique views for, I believe, the first 308 views. After that it counts people who watch it till some point that I forget. "Somebody that I used to know" likely hasn't been seen by 100M people, but the people who have seen it keep watching it. Over, and over...