If you are trying to promote your business and video on youtube, it is important to know how YouTube calculates your view counts. You will want to know that you are getting true views from real people rather than bots. YouTube has very specific rules in place for how they measure youtube views.

To be counted as a view on youtube, the user must click the play button on your video and continue watching for 30 seconds or more. They must also have JavaScript enabled and their browser must not block YouTube ads or beacon scripts. In addition, the viewer must watch a complete video ad that is 11-30 seconds long or more. YouTube will also exclude videos from accounts that have been reported as bots or show suspicious behavior.

YouTube does allow you to replay your own videos and count them as additional views. However, they will only count up to 4-5 replays in a 24 hour period. If you continuously refresh your page to try and artificially increase your view counts, the system will flag this as spamming and will stop counting those views.

You can see a more detailed breakdown of your youtube views in the YouTube analytics dashboard. Keeping track of these numbers will help you gauge how well your marketing strategies are working for youtube. This can be useful in determining which types of content are more effective at converting viewers into subscribers and customers for your brand.