Hi. I bought some HR views from 2 views providers. Retention is around 80%.
Here is the screenshot

So as you can see its some kind of bots watching my video from Facebook and Safari App(i dont know which app).
But my video doesnt rank on the first page for my keyword (my video seo is good). So it seems to me that these fake views doesnt affect rankings at all. I mean my views counter works, video has more than 12k views now, but i can see on the first page results video with only 7-8k views and retention of this video is around 50% (1:34min), but my video is 80-90% (around 2:30min).
I dont know, may be youtube doesnt count views from external sources for rankings? I mean it counts in statistics but it doesnt affect rankings at all.
On the other hand i dont think that if for example you add your video to reddit with many real viewrs it wouldnt affect rankings, i am sure it will. Thats why some viral videos you can see in youtube popular top results (for any country) even if it was uploaded 1 day ago.
Any expirienced youtube guys here, what do you think about that?
Here is the screenshot

So as you can see its some kind of bots watching my video from Facebook and Safari App(i dont know which app).
But my video doesnt rank on the first page for my keyword (my video seo is good). So it seems to me that these fake views doesnt affect rankings at all. I mean my views counter works, video has more than 12k views now, but i can see on the first page results video with only 7-8k views and retention of this video is around 50% (1:34min), but my video is 80-90% (around 2:30min).
I dont know, may be youtube doesnt count views from external sources for rankings? I mean it counts in statistics but it doesnt affect rankings at all.
On the other hand i dont think that if for example you add your video to reddit with many real viewrs it wouldnt affect rankings, i am sure it will. Thats why some viral videos you can see in youtube popular top results (for any country) even if it was uploaded 1 day ago.
Any expirienced youtube guys here, what do you think about that?