Dear YouTube Marketers. Please Don't Do This.

JasonZ10

Regular Member

Aug 28, 2010

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• Dec 1, 2011

• #1

No, the view counter isn't "catching up". The video is from months ago. Realistic likes are about 10% of the amount of views, and comments are even less.

 

dryheat360

Regular Member

Dec 30, 2009

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• Dec 1, 2011

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How do they do that? I've seen it around and it makes me curious. I just don't see how there can be comments and likes on a video that wasn't even viewed that many times unless its like facebook, and you can leave comments using a comment box that is not directly on youtube.

 

dryheat360

Regular Member

Dec 30, 2009

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• Dec 1, 2011

• #3

But what I mean is, how do they do the likes and comments without going to the video page?

 

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indersarna87

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Oct 18, 2011

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• Dec 1, 2011

• #4

really interesting

 

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zarn

Newbie

Sep 24, 2008

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• Dec 1, 2011

• #5

dryheat360 said:

But what I mean is, how do they do the likes and comments without going to the video page?

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They are using bots, when you use Youtube API you put comments/likes without increasing the views.

 

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Dubtube

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Oct 31, 2011

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• Dec 1, 2011

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It being frozen at 310 views for so many months means that the view counter is frozen. It could have thousands or hundreds of thousands of views, although they don't show.