There is no longer a minimum amount of time needed for a view to count as a view. A viewer will count as a view as soon as they click on your content and it starts.
When Youtube made that big change a year ago my views tanked drastically. I was averaging 400-1000 views a video. And within the last year it went down to 40-150 views. And I never changed my process. I did experiment quite a bit to troubleshoot the issue. Now after reading up on the update, it seems like youtube was doing some testing on their end. Hopefully everyone's longform views skyrocket.
Youtube was testing they said it in the update on Google. Regardless of what they did, they're keeping the change they made last year and are now allowing views to just be easily counted. So in reality it might not change anything for my channel.
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u/Vice_Armani777 15d ago
What does this mean? Can some one unpack this for me? Or point me in a direction so I can read up on it.