▶ How YouTube Counts Views
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When we want to measure the success of a video that we have published on YouTube, we have a main indicator: the number of visits. But what many people don't know is how YouTube counts views At first it may seem that it is quite simple: each person who plays a video is a visit. But the reality is that it is not that easy. There are some details measured by the video portal that cause the marked number of visits to vary.
The first thing we have to take into account is what YouTube considers a visitA visit is a reproduction of a video that has been initiated directly by a user voluntarily or that has been proposed by the algorithm of the platform itself when a video has finished. However, when the video portal system considers that this reproduction may have been made by a bot, it will not count in the visit system.
It is also necessary, for it to count as a visit, that the video has been playing for at least 5 seconds.
The break in the 300 visits
If you've read the previous section, you've probably wondered how YouTube tells if a video was played by a person or a bot. And there is a magic number used by the platform to distinguish it: the 300 visits.
Once a video reaches 300 views, the algorithm freezes the view count for a whileNext, the platform studies who has made those first visits, to make sure that they are not all from a few users updating over and over again. In the event that the visits that have been obtained are legitimate, it will continue to be counted normally, and the visits made during the time it has been frozen will be added.
After those 300 views, YouTube will continue to monitor if any of the views made of the video are illegitimate. And only actual visits will be added to the count. This prevents users trying to cheat the system by playing their own videos over and over again to earn money faster.
Do my own views of my videos count?
If you usually post videos on YouTube, you may have wondered if you can play your own videos for more profit or just more relevance in the video portal.The answer is yes, but with nuances. In principle, the visits you make yourself work exactly the same as those made by any other user.
But, as we have mentioned previously, the video portal detects when reproductions are being made over and over again from the same device, so that it may appear that something fraudulent is being done. In that case, whether it is yourself or another user who does it, these visits will not be counted. So it's okay to play your own videos, but don't expect them to keep coming if you spend your life updating all the time.
Reviews made to your videos from Facebook or from embedded content will count exactly the same as those made directly from the platform.
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