How to buy views on YouTube
I was shocked when I read the recent TechCrunch article YouTube Counts Video Ads as Regular Views. Once my shock wore off (about 3 seconds) my hat started to turn a little grey and I started to think about the ways I could use this to my advantage.
to sum up YouTubes position techCrunch got an explanation from a spokesperson.
“When it comes to paid advertising, view count of a video increases only when it’s clear that a viewer has made a choice to watch a video. For example, a viewer might make that intention known by clicking to watch a Promoted Video, opting-in to watch a TrueView in-stream ad, or playing a YouTube video embedded in a homepage ad.
To be clear, with standard in-stream ads where a viewer has no choice in its selection, we do not increase the videos view count.”
Warning this is for deep pockets only
So this is how you do it
- Buy Placement ads on YouTube
- Put a big budget behind it
- Watch the views roll in
You can see how these two films relied heavily on paid views
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 7 million views – 5.8 million were paid views
Conan the Barbarian 5.5 million views 4.98 million of them were paid views
Both of these films where so awful, it’s no great surprise that they needed to pay for 80% of their views.
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