" Even though the bots “viewed” two of the videos 150 times, YouTube’s public view-counter only listed 25 of the views. Its system had apparently identified the rest of the views as fake and so weeded them out. "
" Google’s Adwords ad platform, however, charged the researchers for 91 views — indicating that some views that it didn’t deem real enough to count in the view-counter clearly counted against advertisers. "?
Richard Hearne
Good share Edwin. Note this quote:
"That doesn’t look good for YouTube. If the company charges advertisers for fake views, they will be less likely to want to shell out their money."
If anything it looks very good for YouTube, and exceedingly bad for Adwords. I expect this will create some major headaches if advertisers see it.?
A new study indicates that Google charges advertisers for YouTube ads even when it thinks a robot viewed them
