YouTube Criticising My View Counts

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Ron Jackson
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I've recently got a notice on my YouTube channel along the lines of "certain videos have not been consistently updating " and "we are working to resolve this issue".

Blurb about people falsifying their view counts as well.

I know exactly what the "problem" is, I forwarded ("shared") a couple of sequences (birds) to a friend who posted the links to YouTube on his popular Blogsite. This usually results in about 40 or 50 , maybe more, extra"hits" to the videos in question over a fairly short period.

YouTube software has picked this up, hence the slap to my wrist.

Seemingly nothing I can do about this which is the annoying thing. I'm talking about say 100 views when 20 or 30 might be the norm, yet on occasion , recently in fact, I come across absolutely crap video uploads with 1000 plus views.

Is this a hint of the future, where computers decide who's done what and why with absolutely no redress for the poor old human being?

Ron

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Barry Hunter
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My account also tells me that from July 11th - 18th viewcounts have not being counted consistently, whether it`s because of them implementing the technology to prevent false accounting?

Something else, I have a Panny BlueRay player that has internet browsing ability, if I log in to my account I can see all my uploads except this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPDCW0JxSc but it`s viewable by browsing from a PC!

Barry Hunter videos4all.org

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Ron Jackson wrote:
I've recently got a notice on my YouTube channel along the lines of "certain videos have not been consistently updating " and "we are working to resolve this issue".

Ron

Hi Ron,
I have little to do with youtube directly, but the notice doesn't sound like a slap on the wrist to me - if it was they wouldn't say "we are working to resolve this issue" which implies it's a problem there end.
..unless I'm missing a point and should be reading between the lines.

From info in your post, nothing else, it sounds like they are assuming, because some videos have a different viewing profile than others, some are not registering views. or perhaps 'repeat views' by same viewer are counted as just one and they've discovered that repeated views via a link have only been counted as one, but actually represent a wide number of viewers (e.g. from the one link in the forum).

Given Barrys post, that also perhaps points to a problem where with so many different viewing devices/protocols, their software currently isn't correctly recording the number of viewers (only distinct accesses).

>Is this a hint of the future, where computers decide who's done what and why with absolutely no redress for the poor old human being?
Do not worry. I vill be back. (Too subtle?)

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Barry Hunter wrote:
My account also tells me that from July 11th - 18th viewcounts have not being counted consistently, whether it`s because of them implementing the technology to prevent false accounting?

Something else, I have a Panny BlueRay player that has internet browsing ability, if I log in to my account I can see all my uploads except this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPDCW0JxSc but it`s viewable by browsing from a PC!

July 11th and 18th for me. Co-incidence or because, as you say, new technology ?

Ron

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