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How many views will it get?

10-15 million 62 10.95%
 
15-20 million 37 6.54%
 
20-25 million 60 10.60%
 
25-30 million 64 11.31%
 
30-35 million 56 9.89%
 
35-40 million 40 7.07%
 
40-45 million 29 5.12%
 
45-50 million 22 3.89%
 
55-60 million 62 10.95%
 
Over 9,000 million 133 23.50%
 
Total:565
M.U.G.E.N on 02 March 2013
Michelasso said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
JWeinCom said:
It hasn't gone viral, it's just advertised a whole lot. Pretty much any time I load a video on youtube it shows up as an ad. Nothing wrong with advertising your product, but there is a bit of a difference.


It definitely helps that it's being advertised..but unless you click the commercial to load the video seperately it doesn't count as a view. At least that's what I read over at gaf a while back

You are correct:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/19/youtube-counts-video-ads-regular-views/

The embedded (forced) ads JWeinCom refers to do not count as a view. Only the videos that get willingly clicked count. So if there is an ad in any website, one must click it to watch it and have it counted as a view in youtube. In orther words it is a very successful ad campaign. Sony was right to fire the previous marketing agency.

Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation :D



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mysticwolf on 02 March 2013

yeah, looks like sony is doing a great job of letting everyone know PS4 is coming. Way better than Nintendo did.



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JWeinCom on 02 March 2013
mysticwolf said:
yeah, looks like sony is doing a great job of letting everyone know PS4 is coming. Way better than Nintendo did.


It's not like they could have done worse :)



Ultr on 02 March 2013
Akvod said:
Random question. Was Sony Music involved in inflating youtube views on their music videos?

nope that was some false-stuff that the media took up from a blog...



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JWeinCom on 02 March 2013
Michelasso said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
JWeinCom said:
It hasn't gone viral, it's just advertised a whole lot. Pretty much any time I load a video on youtube it shows up as an ad. Nothing wrong with advertising your product, but there is a bit of a difference.


It definitely helps that it's being advertised..but unless you click the commercial to load the video seperately it doesn't count as a view. At least that's what I read over at gaf a while back

You are correct:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/19/youtube-counts-video-ads-regular-views/

The embedded (forced) ads JWeinCom refers to do not count as a view. Only the videos that get willingly clicked count. So if there is an ad in any website, one must click it to watch it and have it counted as a view in youtube. In orther words it is a very successful ad campaign. Sony was right to fire the previous marketing agency.

I'm not saying that the views aren't legitimate.  I'm just saying this is an example of traditional advertisement.  It's Sony saying "hey hey look at this".  It's not people saying "Oh my god, this is awesome, you have to see this."



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Michelasso on 02 March 2013
JWeinCom said:
Michelasso said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
JWeinCom said:
It hasn't gone viral, it's just advertised a whole lot. Pretty much any time I load a video on youtube it shows up as an ad. Nothing wrong with advertising your product, but there is a bit of a difference.


It definitely helps that it's being advertised..but unless you click the commercial to load the video seperately it doesn't count as a view. At least that's what I read over at gaf a while back

You are correct:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/19/youtube-counts-video-ads-regular-views/

The embedded (forced) ads JWeinCom refers to do not count as a view. Only the videos that get willingly clicked count. So if there is an ad in any website, one must click it to watch it and have it counted as a view in youtube. In orther words it is a very successful ad campaign. Sony was right to fire the previous marketing agency.

I'm not saying that the views aren't legitimate.  I'm just saying this is an example of traditional advertisement.  It's Sony saying "hey hey look at this".  It's not people saying "Oh my god, this is awesome, you have to see this."

Well, you said that it was counting the embedded ads. One must click on the link for that particular video to have it counted. The ones appearing inside other videos do not count. So at least Google says. Thus the 25+ millions are people that actually wanted to see that video. Probably because advertised, maybe because partially viral. The final stats are obviously not public.



JWeinCom on 02 March 2013
Michelasso said:
JWeinCom said:
Michelasso said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
JWeinCom said:
It hasn't gone viral, it's just advertised a whole lot. Pretty much any time I load a video on youtube it shows up as an ad. Nothing wrong with advertising your product, but there is a bit of a difference.


It definitely helps that it's being advertised..but unless you click the commercial to load the video seperately it doesn't count as a view. At least that's what I read over at gaf a while back

You are correct:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/19/youtube-counts-video-ads-regular-views/

The embedded (forced) ads JWeinCom refers to do not count as a view. Only the videos that get willingly clicked count. So if there is an ad in any website, one must click it to watch it and have it counted as a view in youtube. In orther words it is a very successful ad campaign. Sony was right to fire the previous marketing agency.

I'm not saying that the views aren't legitimate.  I'm just saying this is an example of traditional advertisement.  It's Sony saying "hey hey look at this".  It's not people saying "Oh my god, this is awesome, you have to see this."

Well, you said that it was counting the embedded ads. One must click on the link for that particular video to have it counted. The ones appearing inside other videos do not count. So at least Google says. Thus the 25+ millions are people that actually wanted to see that video. Probably because advertised, maybe because partially viral. The final stats are obviously not public.


I didn't mean that the embedded ads were counting.  I just meant that the video is being advertised by traditional means.  That's all. 



Heavenly_King on 03 March 2013

26M! XD



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007BondAgent on 03 March 2013
JWeinCom said:
mysticwolf said:
yeah, looks like sony is doing a great job of letting everyone know PS4 is coming. Way better than Nintendo did.


It's not like they could have done worse :)


well, just like Nintendo, they did only show the controller :S



HesAPooka on 03 March 2013

Wow video is now sitting around 26 million



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