YouTube insight means no more cheating!

When YouTube launched YouTube Insight this Summer all the fake views marketers and advertisers freaked out because now the stats go beyond comments and views.  Up-loaders are encouraged to display the complete statistics of their video views and those who don’t will be investigated by  and be giving off a pretty sketchy vibe in general.  Aside from having honest and healthy looking video statistics including geographic and demographic, advertisers will be interested in the videos which get a lot of eye shots, so don’t YouTube surprised if you have popular videos getting hit up by Advertisers, primarily YouTube/Google.

Imagine how embarrassing it was when YouTube launched YouTube Insight and peoploe who had purchased fake views had no information showing up in their stats, yet that had many views. Each view in linked to a real IP, so fake views are easily caught now.  Another embarrassing element to the YouTube Insight is when very clean and corporate companies use their Adult or Casino web traffic, now the referred traffic source is shown! It may be better to hide it then one may think because it is in the privacy option to decide wheather or not to let your video’s Insight go Public, but having public information is the standard. It shows you are not ashamed or scared to show where your viewers are coming from.  To see where to look at your YouTube Insight.

How to Use YouTube Insight

Faking MySpace plays is a real industry!

It was big news last year when someone discovered that a software called TuneBoom Pro was being utilised by music labels and musicians to artificially increase the number of plays for their songs on MySpace. The site was reported to MySpace administrators and it has since disappeared.

Bands and labels wanting to falsify their number of MySpace plays still have plenty of other ways to manipulate their play counts. We know of several other sites providing the same type of service. (We wouldn’t encourage them so if you are looking for references don’t count on us!)

So what’s the matter with falsely increasing MySpace plays? If everyone else is doing it, you find yourself almost being forced to — just like Olympic athletes and steroids. The sad thing is MySpace will probably never be able to eradicate all these play increase softwares, somewhat like how the International Olympic Committee will never be able to insure athletes never use steroids or other types of drugs.

What this mean is we’ll just have to take high plays on an artist’s site with a grain of salt, and realise that this does not necessarily mean they are actually popular. And you can expand this to the number of Youtube views a video has, and the number of friends on someone’s Facebook account.

Beware of fakes!smN3qE

Faking Youtube views & Myspace plays

As the old saying goes: Fake it til you make it! Is this ever true in our new internet world order, where you can be 100% fake 24/7 and absolutely no one will be the wiser.

Not happy to let their content speak for itself, some folk have started growing their Myspace plays and Youtube views by buying software to fraudulently increase them. Technically this goes against these sites’ Terms & Conditions, but is that really what’s up for debate here? 

You might think that buying plays and views seems harmless enough, but I say it’s just sort of sad. Like when an unpopular rich kids’ daddy has to pay other kids to befriend him. I know I wouldn’t want to be that kid, no matter how many plays and viewfriends I had in the end. Would you?

how many friends can i buy with this daddy?

how many friends can i buy with this daddy?

Besides, what if your band sucks? No matter how many “plays” you have, once you get on that stage and live fans realise you are not living up to your fake web rep, it’s gonna be a hard tumble down.

As for Youtube fakers, granted views might get you advertising revenues, and you can hide behind the faceless web and never have to face the real world with what they really think of your stuff. When you think about it, it’s only your conscience  you’ve got to lose.

Ahem… I am now stepping off my soapbox… 

the faceless internet - a faker's dream or nightmare?

the faceless internet - a faker's dream or nightmare?