Comments on: YouTube Says Autoplays Don’t Count

By: Chad Israel

Chad Israel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:48:37 +0000

If this is true it will kill YouTube's effectiveness for advertisers. The "autoplay" feature is crucial for seeding efforts. LiveVideo allows for a user to choose whether or not to use "autoplay".

If this holds, the top YouTube Celebs will quickly see declines in their views & popularity. Almost every sponsored channel on YT is self inflated.

By: Soupy

Soupy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:53:22 +0000

All it takes is for a 'real' journalist to embed an autoplaying video on myspace and refresh it a few times to see that autoplays are counted by YouTube. That means that the person at YouTube who said that they were not counted lied.

The name of the YouTube spokesman is conveniently absent from this article as is any evidence of effort to confirm any of the 'facts'.

This is either really sloppy work, Steve Bryant, or you are acting as a shill for a friend at YouTube. (Most likely the latter as YouTube censors all view fraud criticism from its own site).

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:21:59 +0000

Stefan, as far as we know this only applies for videos outside of YouTube's site. It wouldn't make sense on YouTube, where people go explicitly to watch video -- though I guess it seems a little hypocritical when you put it like that.

By: Stefan Hayden

Stefan Hayden — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:02:03 +0000

does that count for youtube's own site? If you click though to a video it always autoplays. that seems like ti would effect every video if that was the case.

By: Mitchell D. Stein Sr.

Mitchell D. Stein Sr. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:56:12 +0000

I think youtube is throwing Imaginary Bitches under the bus to hide their tracks.

By: Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend Is… YouTube - NewTeeVee Station

Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend Is… YouTube - NewTeeVee Station — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:15:59 +0000

[...] The resulting success of the video has caused some public relations problems for YouTube, which relies on its view counts for advertising dollars. The site avows that safeguards are in place to detect false ad impressions, and recently stated that autoplays do not count towards a video’s visible view count. [...]

By: Mitchell D. Stein Sr.

Mitchell D. Stein Sr. — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:19:07 +0000

Did Imaginary Bitches breat any rules? NO...