YouTube cancels billions of video views

[AskWazzup]

The world's biggest recording companies have been stripped of two billion YouTube hits after the website cracked down on alleged 'fake viewers'.

Universal, home of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, lost a total of one billion views in the video site’s biggest ever crackdown on artificially inflated figures.

Sony was second hardest hit, with the label behind such stars as Alicia Keys, Rita Ora and Labrinth losing more than 850million views in a single day.

The dramatic cuts came as YouTube conducted a crackdown on fake views, but music industry sources have blamed it on housekeeping related to the migration of their videos across different channels.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...video-views-finding-faked-music-industry.html

Well isn't this nice, the music industry has done it again. This type of shit has been apparent in Radio and TV for a long time, but they just aren't content with that. These hypocrites cooking up their numbers while yelling rape on the "illegal" uploads and pirates.

This doesn't change much, regarding people listening to shit, but at least the manipulative nature of these record companies is being highlighted to the public.

 

[Axolotl]

Silly Americans and your billions. Have to remind myself you're merely talking about milliards.

 

[Per]

For some reason I misread this topic as "YouTube cancels billions of brain cells".

 

[Kilus]

The Record companies were not faking views. Three of the big four moved over to VEVO. You can't actually move videos on youtube so they were deleted from the official record company channels and relaunched on the VEVO service. Only youtube kept view counts for deleted videos for some reason. Now youtube has changed so it only counts views from live videos. For your own link:

Record labels have blamed the cuts in their viewing figures on a change in the way that YouTube has changed its view count.

Billboard reported how the Google-owned company recently decided to remove view counts for so-called 'dead videos', which were no longer live on the channel.

A senior label executive told the music industry trade magazine that since thousands of videos had in fact been migrated to Vevo, the views those clips accrued during their time on their dedicated label channels were taken away in YouTube's 'clean up'.

Universal acknowledged its drop in views, but told the Daily Dot its channel had been mostly dormant since it shifted its focus to Vevo, which it founded in 2009 together with Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media Company, and E1 Entertainment.

 

[Crni Vuk]

Kilus, this is about blaming someone for something.
How dare you to come up with a logic argument?

 

[Matthews]

For some reason I misread this topic as "YouTube cancels billions of brain cells".

They do that with cat videos.

 

[Makenshi]

Kilus, this is about blaming someone for something.
How dare you to come up with a logic argument?

Faith is purest when it is unquestioned

[spoiler:26da1af694]Relax, Vuk, I know you're kidding, too [/spoiler:26da1af694]

 

[fedaykin]

As Kilus said, those views weren't fake, they were just moved.

However, botting is allegedly quite common on Youtube and there are many sites that sell Youtube views, likes and subscribers. They do this presumably with botnets. Apparently it's a lucrative business. The Daily Dot has a lot of articles on the subject. Here's an interesting exposé where they test out a few of these sites:
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/how-to-buy-youtube-views/

 

[AskWazzup]

The Record companies were not faking views. Three of the big four moved over to VEVO. You can't actually move videos on youtube so they were deleted from the official record company channels and relaunched on the VEVO service. Only youtube kept view counts for deleted videos for some reason. Now youtube has changed so it only counts views from live videos. For your own link:

Record labels have blamed the cuts in their viewing figures on a change in the way that YouTube has changed its view count.

Billboard reported how the Google-owned company recently decided to remove view counts for so-called 'dead videos', which were no longer live on the channel.

A senior label executive told the music industry trade magazine that since thousands of videos had in fact been migrated to Vevo, the views those clips accrued during their time on their dedicated label channels were taken away in YouTube's 'clean up'.

Universal acknowledged its drop in views, but told the Daily Dot its channel had been mostly dormant since it shifted its focus to Vevo, which it founded in 2009 together with Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media Company, and E1 Entertainment.

Well yes, i see that, but those are record label representative words. Google denied to comment. So as i understand it, the viewcount deletions were not only from the moved videos. I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but it's not a hard thing to believe, since this is a HUGE business and similar technologies have been used in the past, in radio and tv.

In any case: