mashable.com — "I complained over the weekend that YouTube is increasingly being gamed by users. I decided to test out how hard this would be - as it turns out, it?s exceptionally easy to rank among the most viewed videos and channels by simply refreshing the page."
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Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
... Got life?
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
OK, I read the article, and followed some of the links to the videos, and other blog post about this. I understand what they are doing, but I do not see how it is "profit"able.If you post some compelling video that is really yours I can see how gaming the system a bit could make you look better to getting a job or something somewhere, but how is it directly profitable?
seansshackOct 17, 2006
only "profit"able in tempting people to view, by appearing in top viewed. So only profitable in exposure....
nonpcOct 17, 2006
This is nothing new. I did the same thing with a video I posted last year. But, al it does is get you in the most viewed for the day. And you would have to do it every day to keep it there.
fascfooOct 17, 2006
Exposure - whcih is what marketing is all about.
myrmOct 17, 2006
It would highly stupid of a smart company like Google to buy another company based on the numbers of views listed for a video on the website. I'm sure they did all sorts of things like looking at server logs, numbers of registered users, how many of those users logged in and when. Many aspects of a company are examined before it's acquired they call it due diligence and you would be insane to pay $1.6b for anything without doing an awful lot of it.I mean would you buy a car without doing anything other than taking a look at it from the outside? "Yeah, looks nice and hey look at that the speedometer says 200mph, wow it's a fast car too!"Both Google and YouTube are well aware this is going on, again you'd be insane to pay $1.6b for any company that didn't know this was happening, basic web server stats software would tell you that you're highest viewing IPs were responsible for tens of thousands of hits.
solorideOct 17, 2006
Combination of a cookie+IP and the video must be fully played to count.
solorideOct 17, 2006
I wonder if metacafe.com has the same problem. They pay their "producers" $5 for every 1000 views. hmm...
ifonlyOct 17, 2006
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