Why does a YT view embedded on FriendFeed not count as a "view"? Facebook does the same thing...
andrewbaron
· 7 months ago
My understanding is that they had to make a tradeoff due to people hacking view counts off site.
For example, If you have a blog with 30 posts on the home page, and every post has an autoplay video, every time someone lands on your pages, that would be 30 video plays. But obviously most people only watch one video at a time. Also, I think its more difficult to trace back the i.p. to determine uniqueness, which is why off-site, one unique individual can watch a video 30 times, but it only counts as one view.
Moral to the story? When there are a lot off-site views, YouTube doesn't count a lot of them.
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For example, If you have a blog with 30 posts on the home page, and every post has an autoplay video, every time someone lands on your pages, that would be 30 video plays. But obviously most people only watch one video at a time. Also, I think its more difficult to trace back the i.p. to determine uniqueness, which is why off-site, one unique individual can watch a video 30 times, but it only counts as one view.
Moral to the story? When there are a lot off-site views, YouTube doesn't count a lot of them.