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Originally posted by Swag
This is not true, a lot of the videos on that lists got their views snatched a couple of months ago cus they were fake
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you should read this article:
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...issing-youtube
What Really Happened to Sony and Universal's 2 Billion Missing YouTube Views
On Thursday, when YouTube sent out its regular reports on view counts, one data company, SocialBlade, noticed that the channel views for Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group saw its channel count sliced by about 2 billion views.
That led some folks to conclude that the views were "fake" and that nefarious "black hat" techniques were being cooked up by the labels to falsely inflate their views. The truth, however, isn't nearly as sexy.
Interviews Billboard.biz conducted with YouTube, label executives and analysts from Next Big Sound told a very different tale. Here's what really happened