Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats!
Just a few notes about how Youtube works:
Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302 to 308, and then they freeze for a few hours.
It'll update after 6 to 8 hours, but it still lags significantly behind real views. It only updates views every 8 hours or so after that, and it takes a few days for the displayed viewcount to catch up to the actual viewcount (We've had instances of videos with more thousands more likes than views... which is entertaining. :p)
One way you can sometimes get a more accurate view is by searching for your video. For some reason, the viewcount on the Youtube Search Results page is NOT linked to the viewcount displayed on the individual video page. It also lags behind, but it appears to update faster.
I mostly wanted to take the chance to say thank you for the "We're NASA
And We Know It" video. It was fantastic, and just thinking about it
still makes me chuckle.
I'm also curious why google is hiding actual viewcount? I can't think of
a viable reason, but I was wondering if you had any insight, or even
baseless speculation?
Thanks you, and thanks for the YouTube Search tip! I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm refreshing that page like crazy to see the count go up, haha. :)
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Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats!
Just a few notes about how Youtube works: Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302 to 308, and then they freeze for a few hours.
It'll update after 6 to 8 hours, but it still lags significantly behind real views. It only updates views every 8 hours or so after that, and it takes a few days for the displayed viewcount to catch up to the actual viewcount (We've had instances of videos with more thousands more likes than views... which is entertaining. :p)
One way you can sometimes get a more accurate view is by searching for your video. For some reason, the viewcount on the Youtube Search Results page is NOT linked to the viewcount displayed on the individual video page. It also lags behind, but it appears to update faster.
I mostly wanted to take the chance to say thank you for the "We're NASA And We Know It" video. It was fantastic, and just thinking about it still makes me chuckle.
I'm also curious why google is hiding actual viewcount? I can't think of a viable reason, but I was wondering if you had any insight, or even baseless speculation?
Here's a video that explains it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
tl:dr; caching, data syncing, abuse.
Thanks you, and thanks for the YouTube Search tip! I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm refreshing that page like crazy to see the count go up, haha. :)