viewcount

plural viewcounts

1. InternetThe number of views.

   High viewcounts come from videos that are compelling, not contrived.

   2007, Connecting People Using Google™ For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, page 19

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   In the corner of YouTube, I spot the viewcount on the bottom right: 14,727,216 views.

   2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 114

   orderby Method used to order entries. Options are relevance, published, rating, and viewcount.

   2012, Zak Ruvalcaba, Mike Murach, Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery: Training & Reference, Fresno, Calif.: Mike Murach & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 443

   Because viewcounts wield so much power in search rankings, they are a contentious subject among YouTube uploaders.

   2012, Kiri Miller, Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (The Oxford Music/Media Series), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231

   Another 10 seconds on Google brought me this answer from a YouTube employee via Quora: “YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means.[…]”

   2012 December 3, Paul McNamara, “Taking ‘Internet answers’ for granted”, in Network World, volume 29, number 21, page 34

   A viewcount that’s frozen at 300 is one of the great success indicators of a project being launched through YouTube. It means it’s being viewed so often, and shared so frequently, that YouTube has to check that nothing dodgy is happening.

   2014, Steve Sammartino, The Great Fragmentation and Why the Future of Business Is Small, Wiley, →ISBN, page 226