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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by JaggedJax on Friday December 21, 2012 @08:29PM (#4955405)
I wondered about the revenue sharing for a bit before realizing Google didn't take a financial hit from the fake views. If anything, they profited. It's the advertisers who took any hit by paying for ad space that was only seen by bots.
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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by loceng on Friday December 21, 2012 @10:28PM (#4955672)
That would show worse ROI then though, which looks bad on Google.
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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by sskates on Friday December 21, 2012 @10:58PM (#4955716)
What's way worse is losing the trust of their advertisers over the long term. I'm not going to buy views on Youtube if I don't trust the platform, so steps like this make me more willing to spend.
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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by loceng on Saturday December 22, 2012 @08:03AM (#4956486)
Yes, that's what I was meaning to imply - the ROI of advertisers.
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