Google Cracks Down on YouTube Views

[mrengine]

YouTube, Google's video-sharing website, has launched a crackdown on people manipulating the "view" counts on videos clips, potentially misleading viewers as to their popularity.

Google's move is part of charm offensive towards advertisers that use YouTube. Analysts told CNBC that advertising revenue was increasingly important for YouTube, and that fraudulent views hurt its credibility.

Source: [cnbc.com...]

[lucy24]

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[mrengine]

Any relation?

No relation. Did not see a post in the YouTube area. I posted this under business/policies as Google is trying to woo advertisers in YouTube.

If the thread is deleted, it would not offend me in the slightest. But I'll try to edit my first post to include the link to the post in the video section, although CNBC does have extended coverage on the topic.

Edit: "Allowable time to edit post has past." and I therefore can't update the original post.