Comments on: Imaginary Bitches Recipient of Imaginary Views?

By: Imaginary Bitches Takes Back the B-Word

Imaginary Bitches Takes Back the B-Word — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:01:26 +0000

[...] (scoring over a million views on the first episode, along with, as Steve Bryant reported last year, some viewcount-related controversy). This in theory makes Bitches a bit of a rerun for Strike, but you can hardly blame them for [...]

By: Imaginary Bitches Takes Back the B-Word - NewTeeVee Station

Imaginary Bitches Takes Back the B-Word - NewTeeVee Station — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:51:05 +0000

By: Soupy

Soupy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:19:45 +0000

"A YouTube spokesperson said that autoplaybacks are not counted toward the visible “views” numbers displayed on YouTube because those playbacks are not viewer initiated."

Name the spokesperson or stop quoting him (i.e. stop spreading his dis-information for him, its getting annoying, especially when other people quote your article).

What YouTube did was stop counting links to pages that hosted autoplaying videos in the links section of the video statistics. This only hid the source of the view fraud. The fraudulent views are still counted.

Try it, you can rack up 200 views and be able to write an evidence based article in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee.

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:10:55 +0000

i can’t wait for season 2! i love this! i just watched all of them on YouTube!
my friend got me into them, well first she got me to watch clips of Bianca and Maggie off of YouTube from All My Children (love them by the way!) anyway then i was convinced i’d seen Elizabeth Hendrickson before and looked (she was on an ep of Criminal Minds i’d watched before) anyway not the point and probably not interesting to you! so i found out they were on the mini series and figured what the hell may as well watch it!
so i did and i loved it and i can’t wait for season 2!
please make more quickly!

By: The New View Review: Imaginary Bitches Making ‘em Up? « MyMediaMusings

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:44:16 +0000

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By: milowent

milowent — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:45 +0000

i'd say it looks like the early videos on the channel were gamed, and then they stopped. the video that has over 1 million was featured by youtube at some point, so that explains its extra bump.

another piece of evidence pointing toward "cheating" is the comment to view ratio on the videos with the most views. e.g., ep 4 has 576K views and only 258 comments. ep 8, which is not gamed, has 33K views and 292 comments. compare that to the # of comments on the most viewed this week list.

the high view videos i checked on this channel have disabled the functionality to show sites linking to it. that is one way of masking coordinated efforts to get up view counts.

"gaming" things like to this to help jumpstart a new channel is not uncommon on youtube. a serial is hard to get noticed on youtbe. whether a real audience results from the gaming is the real test.

By: Ely

Ely — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:04:24 +0000

That show is amazing! Thanks for posting! I'm hooked.

But I don't get what the big deal with this story is...

"A YouTube spokesperson said that autoplaybacks are not counted toward the visible “views” numbers displayed on YouTube"

The show is great... and any non- 'bona fides' don't count anyway... so who cares!

By: Tim Street

Tim Street — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:59 +0000

Hey Andrew,

If you are out of money and out of favors don't start season two until you have a revenue stream.

If you stand on a corner and give away free lemon-aid until you run out of lemons, water and sugar you are never going to make any money.

Fame without fortune makes you Joey Buttafuoco.

Take your numbers, go to industry events, parties, conventions and seminars and make new friends that will become your sponsors.

It's worked for me.