

You can buy legitimate views, but you cannot buy bad views without risking sanction. The Consequences of Buying Viewsīuying views is not banned by YouTube entirely. Still, they’re views.Īt the top end you have all the great, engaged viewers within your demographics and target areas.

Some of them have adblockers enabled so you don’t even get ad revenue from them. They put videos on in the background, but they don’t click links or read descriptions. In the middle, you have a lot of casual viewers who view random content on YouTube, but aren’t really that interested in what they’re doing. They might be infected with a virus that loads videos in browser tabs positioned way off the side of the screen, so there’s no indication besides bandwidth drain that they’re being watched. They might be people stumbling upon embedded videos with autoplay enabled, possibly even hidden behind other elements of a site. They might be clickfarm users being paid to watch videos. At the bottom end you have legitimate people who are “watching” a video without actually watching it. They’re cheap and plentiful, but they’re also easy to detect and filter. On the other end, bad bots come in massive numbers, because they’re spoofed data and IPs all using the same behaviors. However, they’re also a lot of work to set up and keep running, so they’re only available in low volumes. Good bots are excellent at imitating real behavior, have valid referral information, and often slip past YouTube’s filters. On the bot scale, you have good bots and bad bots. There’s a scale to both categories, though. Bots are bots, and often try to imitate real people, but are also often caught. Real views are real people, and act like it. Views come in two major categories: real and bot.

Views from different countries, views from different demographics, and so on. You can see this in your analytics, even. Views come from all sorts of people and all sorts of places. There are views, and then there are views, you feel me? No? Alright, well I’ll explain.
