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Topic History of: Youtube views created by bots Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
You're quite right de-caf and I'm sure Genesis would agree with you as well as those one hit wonders 10cc and The Bay City Rollers (well I only produced one of their hits) and of course I myself only had Moon... apart from Paloma, It's Good News Week, Johnny Reggae....
God I wish I'd discovered something like The Rocky Horror Show.
Never mind, there's always One Hit Abba to fall back on.
You need some caffeine before you join the real world but that might stop you sleeping zzzzzzzzz
de-caf
can i just reiterate, the music is shit.
expert in naff one hit wonders champions naff one hit wonders. (yes i know it is two,the world has moved on)
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
JK2006
I expect BABY was before mass use of mobiles kicked in - Boyfriend will have millions of mobiles.
I'd guess.
Alex and Charlie had as many views three years ago as they do now.
Jaded and Bored
Bobby
First of all I apologise to anyone who was offended by my posts. I do not intend to be rude
but I am exhausted by the constant misinformation on this board. It seems some people either
deliberately or otherwise want to try and discredit the online sensations that break outside of
the select few in the "industry". This is deja vu as this happened in the dance era (dismissed as
a passing fad) or laughably described as "music for clubs and not for the airwaves".
Thanks for posting the Justin Bieber link now I would say from the stats there is no mobile view
botting going on there and the views are genuine and especially for the demographic. Before anyone
can say that demographic don't own phones, just through that nonsensical idea out of your head.
Every 9-13 year old (typical Bieber fans) have phones. Thanks for the education about bots.
I must admit I didn't even know they existed until recently when Youtube allegedly patched it.
But you are quite right. I think I better get me one of them bots. If you can't beat them well join them.
Bobby
OK, I've done some investigation into this and here are my findings. BTW, J&B please calm down, your posts can be so rude and insulting, this is a discussion not a witch hunt.
You don't need to buy mobile views and you don't need to sit with your iPhone permanently refreshing.
A bot is a piece of software which runs on a PC and tricks Youtube into thinking the views are coming from multiple mobiles.
- It takes no money, you can download a bot for free.
- It takes none of your own time to rack up the views as you leave the bot running doing it for you.
- The surge in views causes the video to be flagged as popular by Youtube's systems and therefore placed high on a chart/recommendations list/front page etc. which generates the real views.
- Real views generate the income.
- Media take notice and report on the video believing it's an internet success story.
- Radio playlist it believing it's popular.
- Major labels get excited.
Etc. etc. etc. etc.
Mobile views of videos account for a very small percentage and this includes young people. To prove this, have a look at a recent major music success story adored primarily by the younger generation:
The mobile views are so negligible they are not even listed in the stats.
But look at Youtube's most watched videos today, "Tulisa Talks", "Kelly Brooks Perfect Pair", "Wayne Rooney breaks childs arm with free kick", "New iPatch iPhone mod"….. the list goes on. They're all at it.
It's quite apparent that it's an integral part of promotion on Youtube, if you're not doing it you're not going to get noticed.
I'm not a fan of these kind of tactics but I don't blame anyone who is using them right now. Along with the complete crap, real talent is being forced to use it just to level the playing field.
My only worry had I have used it myself would be if this becomes big news the evidence is right there below your video.
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