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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by gnicholas on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:53PM (#22926434)
> IIRC, only plays on youtube.com are counted towards video view counts.

This appears to be untrue. [1, 2] It seems that embed views count, except possibly where autoplay is enabled (presumably because the video might be shown when no one is watching).

1: https://www.alliedpixel.com/2019/09/do-embedded-youtube-vide...

2: https://boostlikes.com/blog/2014/08/youtube-video-views-embe...

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