View Count Frozen or Stuck? Question Answered!

Solution:

It doesn't count it as a view if you watch your own video, or if it believes the views are spam. However if you do watch your video, it will freeze around 300 until regular views (all views not from you or spam) totals the number of times you viewed it and the spammer viewed it. So when your view count is frozen at 300, there is a true count hidden somewhere in the Google empire of only "legitimate" views that is below your 300 mark, and once that count hits 300, then your view count will begin to tick once again.

I know this is probably really confusing so heres an example.

Right after i posted this video, I watched about 100 times. Then once the viewcount hit 314 it froze. But there is a hidden counter that was at 214 (all views not from me or spam). Then i got 101 more regular views and my viewcount finally started to move again, B/C that hidden count caught up with the View Count.

Let me know if its still confusing.


Recent YouTube videos have stopped counting views at around 200-250 views. This is a big issue, However youtube doesn't seem to think its an issue.

Youtubes current issues:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs
Please comment if you are experiencing this problem, or if you know any additional information.

Also feel free to add video responses if your video has this problem.


YouTube Timmy Stated:




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From: YouTube Timmy
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:16:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Tues, Mar 3 2009 6:16 pm
Subject: Re: The Number of views won't update
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Hi all,

Weve made a change in our public-facing view counts across the site
that will enable us to consistently reflect what is considered a
'view,' based upon video consumption, video streaming and spam
filtering. This only affects view counts from February 25 moving
forward.


Implementing this change also caused view count updates to slow down a
bit in general; many people have noticed this and we're aware of the
issue.


Thanks,
- Timmy

Hey Timmy, being stuck at 207 for a week isn't a slowdown! It's a PROBLEM. PLEASE FIX IT!

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[megamegagman]

the question is not anwserd, i did in my last comment

[djholmes86]

@megamegagman did u read the video description?

[TheNoway2yesway]

mines stuck at 374

[AmeriCAST100]

@TheNorfilm watch this watch?v=Xspfsw_8UhU

[TheNorfilm]

Stuck on 343 and 306:

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/watch?v=wXQjYUFyywI&feature=r­elated

[bobbybossmode]

someone please watch my first video to get mine to go away

[onethegamerevival]

youtube sucks

[vichoste]

mine at 305... /watch?v=Xspfsw_8UhU

[Waffles672]

Mine is stuck on 301. :P

[FunnyAzns]

Wow my video is stuck at 302 .... and there is a question mark beside viewsss

[Suspectexe1]

Thinks for the explanation. My video was getting more views then I thought it would in a couple days

Then it stopped at 352 but I was getting notifications of new comments thanks again I was having fun watching the view count go up then I was like what happened lol.

[Jerry0Thomas]

Mine at 301