I just thought I would let everyone know about a little test I did with ****** ads in case anyone else was curious if this would work. So here's what I did. Bought ****** ads for the following 1000 worldwide 1000 UK 2000 Vietnam The ads have almost finished but so far youtube has only recorded about 300 views on the player. I have used ****** ads on other thing successfully, but unfortunately, this didn't work that well to bump the numbers on my video. Just thought I would post my results to save everyone a few bucks though. Hope this helps.
this can be yt's freeze limit of the view counter at around 300 with new vids, you can do this for free with a few yt tools as well which are still working for an extent (getting the initial ~300 views)
even if it works, it's useless, $1/1000 views is not a good rate considering the horrible audience retention, at that price you can buy views with a good a.r.