return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoYouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playingtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down14
arrow-up1267arrow-down1external-linkYouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playingtechcrunch.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoAnd turned YouTube into even more incentive to generate clickbait.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoRevenue is already largely based on watch time, so if people click away after a couple seconds, you didn’t really get anything anyway. Plus you tell the algorithm that your videos will cause a room of people to leave quickly
And turned YouTube into even more incentive to generate clickbait.
Revenue is already largely based on watch time, so if people click away after a couple seconds, you didn’t really get anything anyway. Plus you tell the algorithm that your videos will cause a room of people to leave quickly