YT Video View Count Wrong

OutlawEvans

OutlawEvans

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I had a little look to see if something like this had already been posted recently and I couldn't find anything so I thought I'd create this thread.

Basically, I started my YT channel towards the end of February. When I uploaded my first video I noticed on the analytics page that there was like a YouTube information banner towards the top of the page. It said something along the lines of YouTube was having problems with the counting of mobile views and all mis-counted views would be added over the next few days. Well, that didn't happen for me. The message was on the analytics page for a couple of weeks and during that period I uploaded three or four videos.

Now, on the analytics page, the view count for the three or four videos that I uploaded during that time period are a lot lower than what they are on my browse videos channel page. For example, one of them has over 400 views but on my analytics page it says 144. My overall channel views should be over 3,100 if I add up the views of my videos individually but it's only on just over 2,550. If I had millions of views then missing a few hundred wouldn't bother me but at the moment there is a big difference between 2,500 and 3,100!!!

Has anyone else had this problem? I can't be the only one, surely?
 
Sometimes it takes a little bit for it to catch up. It's been doing that since they introduced the new layout.
 
KGATV said:
Sometimes it takes a little bit for it to catch up. It's been doing that since they introduced the new layout.
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What KGATV said. Make sure you don't delete any videos or put them into private or unlisted playlists either. You will lose all the views for those videos if you do (the private and unlisted vids will gain their views back if you make them public again). I lost over 350,000 views when I deleted some vids back in January. :(
 
OutlawEvans said:
I had a little look to see if something like this had already been posted recently and I couldn't find anything so I thought I'd create this thread.

Basically, I started my YT channel towards the end of February. When I uploaded my first video I noticed on the analytics page that there was like a YouTube information banner towards the top of the page. It said something along the lines of YouTube was having problems with the counting of mobile views and all mis-counted views would be added over the next few days. Well, that didn't happen for me. The message was on the analytics page for a couple of weeks and during that period I uploaded three or four videos.

Now, on the analytics page, the view count for the three or four videos that I uploaded during that time period are a lot lower than what they are on my browse videos channel page. For example, one of them has over 400 views but on my analytics page it says 144. My overall channel views should be over 3,100 if I add up the views of my videos individually but it's only on just over 2,550. If I had millions of views then missing a few hundred wouldn't bother me but at the moment there is a big difference between 2,500 and 3,100!!!

Has anyone else had this problem? I can't be the only one, surely?
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Yeah, alotta my older video's view counts are stuck now. :/
 
OutlawEvans said:
Yeah, I can understand that it takes time to catch up but I'd think that it wouldn't take over a month to do so![DOUBLEPOST=1366082075,1366081961][/DOUBLEPOST]
That's crazy! :eeks:
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Yeah, I didn't know that youtube changed it's viewcount policy in December. They used to keep your video count even if you deleted videos. I was kind of starting my channel with all new stuff, and deleted lot's of old stuff, so I lost a crapload of views. I should be at 590,460 right now according to analytics, but instead I am at 287,925. Less than half....*sniff*
 
Speaking of lots of views my new video has over 1,000 views in 2 days feels like a glitch cause I have no idea how it happened on this video and not my other ones
 
It's apart of youtube changes to the system with all the new features and updates so now the systems are moving slowly i noticed this on my end as well. I sure hope they are working on fixing this issue as fast as they possibly can.:)
 
Tonio said:
It's apart of youtube changes to the system with all the new features and updates so now the systems are moving slowly i noticed this on my end as well. I sure hope they are working on fixing this issue as fast as they possibly can.:)
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Are you having trouble uploading when I click on upload the choose file thing won't come up it's happened before but eventually goes back to normal but it's not coming up now
 
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