I ordered a few days ago (my post with my order details was on the last page or two). This was on a brand new video - as in I uploaded it in the afternoon and placed my order that evening. Ordered 10k views - right now, I'm sitting just under 73k views. So some MASSIVE over-delivery. Well worth the $$ I paid for that alone.
As keeps being said on here, youtube's numbers *do* take a couple days to update. The counter on my video as well as in the video manager in my YT dashboard both said just under 73k views at least a full 36-48 hours before anything showed up in the analytics for that same video. So be patient with that. The minutes watched in the analytics show that the average view is almost for the entire length of the video.
The video went from being brand new to being ranked #13 within YT for it's main KW. The vids above me don't have near the same number of views - not by a long shot. Some have likes and comments, though - mine does not. So maybe that would be a next good step for me to go after? Or should I go after more views? Does YT ranking take backlinks into account?
I have tags, a long description, correct filename, YT link in the description, and other such appropriate goodness.
Speaking of backlinks, I did outsource some bookmarks here. Roughly 1500, with half of those being PR1-PR8. Bought those packages the same day I did my views. No update as to how complete the packages are, but my vid is showing up on the bottom of page 3 of google for my main KW as of this AM.
So everything is definitely going the right direction. I'm sure I just need a little more patience, too.