So many videos stuck at 301 now it's laughable

stevencampbellfitness

stevencampbellfitness

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This isn't a question why 301 exists, but just a strange instance of way too many videos stuck there.

See, my channel got a few mentions from a larger channel. Then another good mention.. This spiked my subs by around 350 in a week and suddenly my last several videos at the time shot to 301.

After learning about the 301 rule I was patient but most of these videos never went past 301.

As I do videos daily I see now every single video I've done in the past two to three weeks go to 301 and just sit there.

I get views in large chunks. After an hour it'd be 15 then an hour later, 150, by the next day 301, then nothing.

So what's happening? Why are my views stuck?
What is causing all these invalid views that Google does not count?

I'd really enjoy getting g paid properly on adsense, and a week of 150 views a video being thrown out is nothing to shake a stick at.

Thanks and first post here. Nice to meet you.
 
Your videos are stuck because they haven't reached 301 real/true views. Let me explain...



Let's take your 2nd most recent video: /watch?v=PsKW3a28dTA

The video says 301+, but if you go to the stats, you will see it only has 78 views.
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If you go to the stats, or analytics of your other videos, you will see a very similar pattern. So why does the video say 301, when it doesn't have nearly that many views? It's all based on what YouTube considers to be real/true views.

YouTube has certain requirements that need to be made in order to count as a view. They don't publicly state what they count as a view, but from personal research/experiments I have noticed that they don't count views from your own IP address, multiple views from the same IP within a short amount of time, and views that were very very short. So if someone were to constantly refresh the video, it will only count 1 of those views.

When a video has less than 301 views on the video page, it counts per every refresh if the view counter isn't running slow. So you could, essentially, refresh your own video to 301 yourself. Once a video reaches 301, it locks the counter, and audits the views. This is where they deduct anything they don't consider to be a real/true view. The count on the video page won't update until it's past 301 real/true views, which you can see on your stats or analytics.

If videos are being stuck on 301 for a long period of time, it means that it doesn't get enough traffic. For example, I have multiple videos that have been stuck on 301+ for months because they simply don't receive any views anymore.


So if your videos are reaching 301+ quickly, and being stuck for a very long time, check your stats/analytics to see how many real views you have. It looks like someone, or you without realizing it, is clicking on/off (or refreshing) your video too fast.
 
Like I said, I understand validating views.
What I am not understanding is where all the false views/impressions are coming from.

Obviously the video has to start playing somewhere to get an impression/view and YouTube is quickly counting these and then stopping to see if they are real.

So the likely culprit is either Facebook or Google plus.

Now Google plus is automatically shared.
I also share it with a community.

So i think to myself if these views on a user's feed on g+ would cause a false impression?

Facebook I get far less. But Facebook videos play automatically on wifi connections now.
Still I have few Facebook friends so this is unlikely.

G+ far more likely if this is the case.
See what I mean?
 
Google+ doesn't automatically plays the videos so that can't be right. I post my videos on communities and believe me it wont autoplay. And I haven't seen a video on my facebook autoplay and I post videos on facebook and so does my friends sooooo yeah?
 
ShenShen said:
Google+ doesn't automatically plays the videos so that can't be right. I post my videos on communities and believe me it wont autoplay. And I haven't seen a video on my facebook autoplay and I post videos on facebook and so does my friends sooooo yeah?
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Facebook has been autoplaying videos for months now when a user is on wifi or a desktop.

Apparently can't post links yet. Just Google it.
 
KGATV said:
The video says 301+, but if you go to the stats, you will see it only has 78 views.

If you go to the stats, or analytics of your other videos, you will see a very similar pattern. So why does the video say 301, when it doesn't have nearly that many views? It's all based on what YouTube considers to be real/true views.

YouTube has certain requirements that need to be made in order to count as a view. They don't publicly state what they count as a view, but from personal research/experiments I have noticed that they don't count views from your own IP address, multiple views from the same IP within a short amount of time, and views that were very very short. So if someone were to constantly refresh the video, it will only count 1 of those views.

When a video has less than 301 views on the video page, it counts per every refresh if the view counter isn't running slow. So you could, essentially, refresh your own video to 301 yourself. Once a video reaches 301, it locks the counter, and audits the views. This is where they deduct anything they don't consider to be a real/true view. The count on the video page won't update until it's past 301 real/true views, which you can see on your stats or analytics.

If videos are being stuck on 301 for a long period of time, it means that it doesn't get enough traffic. For example, I have multiple videos that have been stuck on 301+ for months because they simply don't receive any views anymore.


So if your videos are reaching 301+ quickly, and being stuck for a very long time, check your stats/analytics to see how many real views you have. It looks like someone, or you without realizing it, is clicking on/off (or refreshing) your video too fast.
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Thanks for that, my unsubscriber trailer says 301+, but now I look in the analytics, it says 170
 
stevencampbellfitness said:
Like I said, I understand validating views.
What I am not understanding is where all the false views/impressions are coming from.

Obviously the video has to start playing somewhere to get an impression/view and YouTube is quickly counting these and then stopping to see if they are real.

So the likely culprit is either Facebook or Google plus.

Now Google plus is automatically shared.
I also share it with a community.

So i think to myself if these views on a user's feed on g+ would cause a false impression?

Facebook I get far less. But Facebook videos play automatically on wifi connections now.
Still I have few Facebook friends so this is unlikely.

G+ far more likely if this is the case.
See what I mean?
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Hooray steven campbell joined the forums! I watch your videos and I think you're very underrated! It's great that jerry gave you a shoutout though (technically)! :D
 
KGATV said:
Your videos are stuck because they haven't reached 301 real/true views. Let me explain...



Let's take your 2nd most recent video: /watch?v=PsKW3a28dTA

The video says 301+, but if you go to the stats, you will see it only has 78 views.
78ab03a136fad377d5b5d24bf6997313.png


If you go to the stats, or analytics of your other videos, you will see a very similar pattern. So why does the video say 301, when it doesn't have nearly that many views? It's all based on what YouTube considers to be real/true views.
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I have to disagree on one point though, the analytic takes up to 2 days to get updated, you cannot tell the true view count in real time.
 
Seroths said:
I have to disagree on one point though, the analytic takes up to 2 days to get updated, you cannot tell the true view count in real time.
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I never once said its in real time. It's shows the true number of views. Even after days of being updated, it still will show the true number of views, which in this case, is much lower than 301.
 
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