| view counts frozen??? | thedeafrabbit | 9/26/09 6:08 PM | my new video has been stuck at 301 for about a week now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KkDjY3fAgU and those saying that it only counts unique users you must be wrong, because i know for a fact i am getting alot of "new" viewers to watch my vid |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | djmambito | 9/26/09 7:00 PM | Yes ..this is a bug/flaw in the not so perfect algorithm which should prevent anyone from fraudulent increasing/manipulating their view numbers. This has happened before..even automated systems were used to do that. It sems that that fraude indeed |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 10/6/09 1:46 AM | Apologies for the delay in replying. I'm sorry to report that the problem is an extremely well known one, with no known solution. :-( In fact YouTube have yet to even accept that it's a problem. Would it surprise you to learn this behaviour is by des |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | thedeafrabbit | 10/7/09 8:23 PM | thanks dude, my vid finally un froze, but now i lost like what i found would be 400 views, i hope this problem gets fixed, thanks again for yalls answer! |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | vwestlife | 10/8/09 7:39 AM | Don't listen to the spammer known as "faberoptime." He has no clue what he's talking about. No legitimate views of your video have been lost. There is just a delay in counting them all. Just be patient and if your video is still getting views, th |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 10/8/09 4:15 PM | Of course I don't know what I'm talking about having read and participated in literally thousands of reports/discussions about it(!!!) - pretty rich coming from a respective newbie! vwestlife I think that when you can't provide any qualitative argume |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | epontius | 10/8/09 4:40 PM | I would imagine that much of the autoplay views are discarded as they are probably not an accurate representation of someone actually watching the video....as you could just refresh the page a few million times. That would create a pretty large discr |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 10/8/09 4:55 PM | As to whether what you describe is the case - maybe, maybe not - we just don't know do we! Just thought it was a lucid example of views being lost, which I note you also think fairly reflects what is happening. In any case, Autoplay is still supporte |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 10/8/09 4:57 PM | Oh and it the example I cited was not referring to my own web site! I don't have any such autoplay pages on my own site, but am simply aware that some users have built their own (pretty) site videos section and deployed the embedded player in that wa |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | boys5 | 12/1/09 1:54 PM | Thanks for your reply but this is the one that I have seen sticking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhIdSru95w this is star 43 the others I tried star 30 and star 31 changed as I clicked a couple of times this is not right when you see another I th |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | boys5 | 12/1/09 3:19 PM | Thanks for your reply but this is the one that I have seen sticking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhIdSru95w this is star 43 the others I tried star 30 and star 31 changed as I clicked a couple of times this is not right when you see another I th |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | dblitz70 | 12/11/09 4:10 AM | I had a video stuck at 301 for a few months. I believe I have a way for all of us to at least see when your video will break out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abk0DNYjjc Go to Insight, views for the video in question. Include the entire world. S |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | rapsaraiki | 1/31/10 9:53 PM | sir..what's the reason my youtube views are stuck on 301 & 361 ? these are the video links.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mANo-QdQtYU 2nd one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqJWSXKHBEI i immediate want you to let my views increase. i look forward |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | djmambito | 2/1/10 5:23 AM | It's not working I have a video that is stuck at 301...for a full 2 months now i cant say that that is a normal delay..it looks as if this is going to be stuck forever. http://www.youtube.com/user/djmambito?gl=NL&hl=nl#p/c/1AB07106848311C0/51/7W1 |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | thedeafrabbit | 2/1/10 9:28 AM | hey guys, you kinda just have to wait it out, which is what i had to do. i had to wait 2 months for it to unfreeze, im sure that posting your links here will help tho if a google rep happens to see it. hope you get it working soon! |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | Teresa_ | 2/10/10 1:43 PM | The view counter is working as it is supposed to as stated in the message forum posted by YouTube Support. It pauses and updates periodically. It is not broken http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=17f0843c4bab76e8&hl=en&fid=17f |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 2/10/10 2:04 PM | @thedeafrabbit - FYI posting links won't help at all, aside from other users actually viewing it as a result. Google folk do not "unfreeze" stuck view counts - only more views can do that, but as you found, in some instances that may take considerabl |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | djmambito | 2/10/10 3:16 PM | This is turning into a Yes ...No discussion. Lets conclude it with once again a fresh look at it. 1) Would you consider a period of 2 months NOT updating...a delay or a bug. ? My video hangs at 301..... for 2 months now ! Since i'm writ |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | faberoptime | 2/10/10 3:29 PM | @djmambito - despite the symptoms being somewhat different in your scenarios 1 & 2, I'm pretty confident that both share the same root cause ("It's by design(!)"). If you can provide a URL for the vid you referred to in (1), I'll be happy to take a l |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | djmambito | 2/10/10 3:48 PM | look at my page djmambito scroll the current list ("my uploads") ...to the video with 301 hits. ("beyond Ipanema") 1) To do the real proof of the cake watch the video completely ...and come back in a few weeks to see that it is pinned down for |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | Momeo128 | 2/11/10 1:36 AM | Wow, looks like we are not the only ones having this problem. My son's video has been uploaded on YouTube for a scholarship contest. The amount of views, ratings and comments that it receives on YouTube is how they determine who wins. His amount o |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | Teresa_ | 2/11/10 4:19 AM | @momeo128: The view counter is in place to prevent inflated video views and is working as it should. Cheaters are the root cause of why this feature is in place. This following blogpost from YouTube posted almost a year ago talks about the video v |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | mebilldaY | 2/11/10 5:40 AM | Here is my theory FYI... Sometimes the views in "My videos" and on the actual page where the video plays gets ahead of itself. Partners can check this by comparing stats with your partner reports page. In other words, your video page may show 301 hit |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | thetv | 2/19/10 1:44 PM | My video has been frozen. If there is anything you could do to unfreeze it youtube, that would be great. We just uploaded a video with some celebs in it and got a whole lot of hits in a small amount of time. Boom, frozen at 335. Please help someo |
| Re: view counts frozen??? | Wyldfantasyx | 5/1/10 5:19 PM | So its by design, its working properly, and there is nothing we can do about it anyways? Well I guess thats what I will do then lol... |
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