Max King of the Wild on 24 February 2013
| fordy said: Sony have already been caught out artificially inflating YouTube hits for music artists that use Sony as their publisher, so for any video that Sony is involved with, the numbers are most likely overinflated. http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/28/3811210/youtube-penalizes-music-labels-artificially-inflating-views Sony's video views were adjusted from 850 million to 2.3 million. Quite a significant amount of fake views. |
LOL! did you even read the article?
Update: Billboard reports that the reasons for the slashed views could be much less controversial, theorizing that many of the cuts are a result of videos being moved to Vevo. We'll update this story further if Google provides a statement on the matter.
Update: We originally reported on the purported "stripping" of viewcounts from labels for violating YouTube's terms of service. Further research has dismissed that possibility and confirms that the viewcounts were expectedly lowered as a result of content moving to Vevo.
