YouTube View Counts
Comments discuss the accuracy, real-time updates, calculation methods, and reliability of YouTube video view counts, including issues like minimum watch time requirements, extrapolation, delays, and historical overflows.
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YouTube view counts are known to be tricky. There are in depth videos on that topic.
You're assuming the viewer count is accurate? That seems rather naive.
YouTube does this. A "view" is only registered if the viewer has seen a certain minimum amount of the video.
wow, "view count findings suggest possible recommendation algorithm bias", much science
A billion videos per year is shockingly view?
another reason why youtube viewcounts aren't everything.
How many views do those videos have though?
What happens when you weight things by YouTube views?
Well, famously youtube's views counter overflow from Gangnam Style...
Wasn't there a post on HN recently about YouTube's viewcounts being extrapolated and not actually real-time?