“As part of their terms of service, YouTube is likely to continue de-spamming data to keep their statistics as accurate as possible. But, those of us who publish videos with the audience’s best interest at heart, and don't employ external businesses to falsely bolster watch counts, aren’t likely to be affected at all.”
This is a rather sycophantic misrepresentation, lumping honest Youtubers in with spammers, hackers and ‘fake’ views. The reality is that lifetime channel views are now being differentiated from what’s being described as ‘active’ video views. In the past, some of us (naively) deleted successful videos in order to keep our internet video channels ‘fresh’. Now we’re losing credit for those fairly earned historical views. A simple option would be for Youtubers to be able to select ‘video views’ or ‘lifetime views’ on their channel frontpage (I'm not holding my breath in anticipation).
The main lesson is that internet video as a medium changes
every hour. The next lesson is that IP
producers do not and will never control internet video! It’s a no-brainer, but
there’s a huge flaw in our ‘internet video is the future of broadcasting’ optimism. The flaw is that platforms like Youtube and
Dailymotion are (of course) running the show, treating IP producers like so
many parasites who are just along for the ride! The internet video platforms
are controlling revenue, information, stats, procedures and access to audiences
in the same ways that tv broadcast companies did in the past, except now the
system is working at light speed! Our future resembles our past, except much faster!
SEO is the way forward! That’s life!
Interesting times!In the meantime, here's 'Enda Kenny Worse Than Herod', although killbotone suggests that Enda's now becoming 'worse than Cowen'! How times change! Or, same old, same old?
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