One interesting way to find the most popular videos (at least among bloggers) is to aggregate all of the "http://www.youtube.com" references that point to a specific video. If you count the usage statistics over periods of time, you could get some interesting results (i.e. most popular video in the past hour, three hours, day, three days, etc.).
Technorati does something similar, but not quite to the extent that I'd like to look at. Of course, if someone created a "feature" such as this (i.e. me), it would be viewed as a "web 2.0" company, rather than just a "cool not-for-profit website".
Therefore, I will keep any such service on an internal URL ;)
Jonny K
· 3 years ago
Deciding which video is good by counting Views is a self fulfilling prophecy (unless we want to relay on email to find media for the rest of our lives).
I prefer the model metacafe is using - ranking system that works..
Jawad Shuaib
· 3 years ago
Having large number of accumulative page views increases the company's value. We are all familiar with MySpace claims for, obviously inflated, high number of page views and members.
But now that YouTube has been acquired by Google, it makes more sense to fix this problem. It won't take more than 10 lines of code (seriously) to detect an identical ip.
This problem wouldn't exist if they didn't want it to.
brd20
· 3 years ago
You should have tried this on Revver and got paid to do it. Do I smell a Business Week article on Click Per View Video Fraud?
mark cuban
· 3 years ago
icerocket.com gives you references back to videos as well
Poor Google, they may have paid $1.65 billion dollars for a dozen eyeballs gaming their video's view count.
Little Pipe
· 3 years ago
hahaha... the YouTube owners let it happen on purpose (LIHOP) in order to inflate their download figures (and hence, inflate their sales price to Google). Stupid Google is pwned!
And maybe, if you look at it more closely, gizmozCOM (39,083 videos watched over the past month - around 58 per hour if he stayed awake for 24 hours per day) and lamo1234 (watched 1,052,747 videos over the past six months - more than 243 an hour during a 24 hour day) did make it happen on purpose (the so-called MIHOP theory)... and have close business connections with YouTube owners.
Gasp, is someone gaming a web app? I won't be able to sleep tonight...
Kai
· 3 years ago
you said profit! what profit?
or is this part of your follow-up article: "Gaming Digg for Fun and Profit"
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Kai,
Actually, "fun and profit" is a popular figure of speech. But as it happens, many of these cheaters are musicians trying to get you to buy their CD or get a ticket to their concerts. Likewise, some use the link at the top right beside the player to advertise affiliate programs.
And if you're a half-decent performer who also happens to be use these tactics, you could land a contract (as some YouTubers have already).
Luiso
· 3 years ago
I don't understand what do you mean with profit. The only thing that you can win is that all the people meets you.
Klaus
· 3 years ago
I agree, the YouTube founders screwed Google :-)
Joe Whyte
· 2 years ago
Ok I am very in tune with social media but this post is one of a kind. For any SMO looking to push traffic to a site this is a must read. Great work and I look forward to testing this!
-Joe Whyte
cristedin
· 2 years ago
I watched over thousand of videos but my videos watched number won`t go up.
Brooke
· 2 years ago
Why wouldn't Youtube want to allow this? It falsely boosts their traffic statistics while increasing their ad-revenue. Unless this becomes a rampant issue that visibly degrades the quality of their content (which it is quickly approaching), they don't have any reason to fix it...
te amo
· 2 years ago
hola a todos
edwin valero
· 1 year ago
Deciding which video is good by counting Views is a self fulfilling prophecy (unless we want to relay on email to find media for the rest of our lives).
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Technorati does something similar, but not quite to the extent that I'd like to look at. Of course, if someone created a "feature" such as this (i.e. me), it would be viewed as a "web 2.0" company, rather than just a "cool not-for-profit website".
Therefore, I will keep any such service on an internal URL ;)
I prefer the model metacafe is using - ranking system that works..
But now that YouTube has been acquired by Google, it makes more sense to fix this problem. It won't take more than 10 lines of code (seriously) to detect an identical ip.
This problem wouldn't exist if they didn't want it to.
http://blogs.icerocket.com/popular/youtube
And maybe, if you look at it more closely, gizmozCOM (39,083 videos watched over the past month - around 58 per hour if he stayed awake for 24 hours per day) and lamo1234 (watched 1,052,747 videos over the past six months - more than 243 an hour during a 24 hour day) did make it happen on purpose (the so-called MIHOP theory)... and have close business connections with YouTube owners.
No wonder the YouTube boyz are now celebrating day and night with lots of booze around... :-)
or is this part of your follow-up article: "Gaming Digg for Fun and Profit"
Actually, "fun and profit" is a popular figure of speech. But as it happens, many of these cheaters are musicians trying to get you to buy their CD or get a ticket to their concerts. Likewise, some use the link at the top right beside the player to advertise affiliate programs.
And if you're a half-decent performer who also happens to be use these tactics, you could land a contract (as some YouTubers have already).
-Joe Whyte
Yes.