YouTube Admits to Autoplay Count Problem

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YouTube Admits to Autoplay Count Problem

Just a quick check in to let everyone know that we’re still trying to find out what’s up with YouTube apparently still not counting views of videos that are set up to autoplay on other web pages. This is a phenomenon we happened upon after top users complained their view counts had dropped drastically despite new videos being distributed widely around the web.
So far YouTube has let us know it’s looking into the missing view issue, but it hasn’t confirmed or denied any aspect of it. However, in a post in a YouTube forum this week, a YouTube employee named Jeff Fisher both acknowledged the issue and called it “a problem.” “We are looking into it,” he wrote.
That wording would seem to imply that YouTube did not knowingly crack down on autoplay abusers like Avril Lavigne fans, who had set up a page that autoplayed and auto-refreshed her Girlfriend video in an attempt to make it the most popular YouTube video of all time (it remains in second, but not by much, to Evolution of Dance, with both videos accelerating to 92 million-some total views as competition has intensified over the last month).
(Some background on “autoplay”: While YouTube videos automatically start playing on its own pages, when they are embedded on other web pages they are set by default to wait for a user to click the play button. However, it’s possible to tweak the embed code so a video plays automatically each time someone visits a page. People do this in order to make it easier for visitors to watch videos and/or to increase their play counts.)





YouTube Admits to Autoplay Count Problem « NewTeeVee

[Lewymocha Original]

Less than 50,000 views away

[XxLoki]

Those Avril Lavigne fans, with their fake loading page, are really something else. Shame on them.

[Open Your Eyes]

Half of that article was in parentheses. That bugs me. I feel claustrophobic when I'm reading things in parentheses.

Great to know people are noticing how close we are!

[Beautiful Eyes]

^^haha

[★xx Leila xx★]

grr...it still makes me mad when avril fans are shown in a bad light, no matter what sharifa says.

[futurechildstar]

That's not fair! I mean, I can understand not counting the autoplays, but not counting the videos at all? That's just as unfair as they are accusing us of being!

[ktg205]

Originally Posted by XxLoki

Those Avril Lavigne fans, with their fake loading page, are really something else. Shame on them.

lol nice but you forgot for more effect

[XxLoki]

Originally Posted by ktg205

lol nice but you forgot for more effect

Good call!

I'm so ashamed of myself...

[Unwanted.Target]

honestly, can't help not thinking this is cheating
why couldn't we just give Avril real views?
she doesn't need this