YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost
YouTube is scrapping its old view-counting rules, transitioning to an immediate metric that records a view from the very first frame of playback.
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YouTube is scrapping its old view-counting rules, transitioning to an immediate metric that records a view from the very first frame of playback.
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