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Why does youtube get stuck?

Why does YouTube get stuck at 301 views when a video gets really popular?

  • I've seen this phenomenon many times where youtube's view count will be stuck at 301 views. Normally this will occur when the video is really popular and just recently posted.

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    YouTube does this to "verify" the views. According to their policy, YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means. We validate views to ensure the accuracy of the viewcount of all videos beginning with the first view. This validation process becomes publicly visible when the viewcount reaches 300. At this point, the viewcount may slow or temporarily freeze until we have time to verify that all further views are legitimate. Rest assured that the views system is working as intended, and that the viewcount will update as soon as the system has verified the legitimacy of the views. And that just 'bout sums it up...

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Here your answer : A view occurs when a person watches your video. In order to preserve accuracy in view counts, we identify irregular playbacks such as spam and remove these from the view count. For popular videos, the counts are updated every few hours; if you're still getting views, you should see them soon. http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=154414

Amir Jaffari

This video explains it really well.

Tristan Wright

Youtube does count the views and there is a verification to avoid artificial spamming. We (VEVO) can see these results when an extremely popular video has premiered.

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