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+ | ====== The Art and Science of Buying YouTube Views ====== | ||
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+ | See also: [[horizon-matters|Why Star Trek–Horizon’s Success Matters]]//</ | ||
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+ | The confrontation was sparked by an **AxaMonitor** report wondering why a few dozen [[dummy tweets]] were mysteriously posted at the same time, pointing readers to // | ||
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+ | > The Twitter account [[twit> | ||
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+ | ===== What's at Stake? ===== | ||
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+ | The impending overtaking — expected August 23, 2016 — challenged Axanar producer [[Alec Peters]]’ characterization of //Prelude// as “the most successful Trek film ever”(([[https:// | ||
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+ | //See also: [[horizon-matters|Why Star Trek–Horizon’s Success Matters]]// | ||
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+ | Then this happened on August 20: | ||
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+ | Asked by several Twitter users to provide evidence, Axanar instead posted: | ||
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+ | But since YouTube does not require viewers to comment or like/ | ||
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+ | ===== A Shadowy World ===== | ||
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+ | ==== How it Works ==== | ||
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+ | The Daily Dot's Chase Hoffberger described how the practice works and what it costs in the article, "I bought myself 60,000 YouTube views for Christmas," | ||
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+ | > A litany of emails flowed into my inbox in the days that followed its posting. All of them alluded to the size and scope of the YouTube view-buying industry. They said that view buying was rampant — that it happened in and around all corners of the site. … Knowing that it's better to show than tell, I set out to find out. Just how easy is it to buy YouTube views, and what exactly happens when you've done it? | ||
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+ | Hoffberger recounted how he bought the views from a service called YTView, a Malaysia-based company owned by someone with the Skype handle KenzoTanaki. "The site promises 'real views,' | ||
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+ | At the time, 2 million YouTube views cost $1,580. And YTView is far from the only purveyor. | ||
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+ | ===== Truth or Consequences ===== | ||
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+ | As the crackdown on Sony and Universal demonstrated, | ||
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+ | ==== Detecting Fraudulent Views ==== | ||
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+ | For its part , YouTube periodically [[https:// | ||
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+ | > I am looking to rank a video. So before I purchasing any views for my youtube views. I would like to be sure that my video will not get banned because of these views.(([[https:// | ||
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+ | The 17 replies that follow blithely encourage the questioner to purchase the views but from a " | ||
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+ | //**__« We believe it’s crucial to improving the accuracy of view counts and maintaining the trust of our fans and creators. »__**// — //Google, about revising YouTube view counts// | ||
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+ | Quora respondent Robert Dupont further notes that buying fake views can still hurt a YouTube video: | ||
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+ | > While your video won’t get removed, your views can disappear later on. YouTube will do occasional sweeps of views after improving their algorithms so the view count can drop later on because of fake views, and believe me, the fake views that are typically sold are not hard to spot in your video analytics.(([[http:// | ||
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+ | Dupont pointed to a graph of YouTube views with obvious, sharp spikes in activity indicating purchased views, as well as a lack of engagement by fake viewers: | ||
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+ | > If you buy views from just any website, you’ll likely be getting ONLY views. No likes. No dislikes. No comments. Nothing else. This will look suspicious to any real viewer and can hurt your reputation. If you do end up buying views, it HAS to look authentic. The company either has to provide engagements with views, OR you have to buy or gain engagements quickly..(([[http:// | ||
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+ | Hoffberger noted in The Daily Dot that //where// views come from can indicate fraud as well. "You can tell if a YouTube view is faked by the place in which YouTube says that the view was accrued," | ||
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+ | Since 2014, YouTube' | ||
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