When YouTube counts views they are actually counting how may times that page has loaded, not how many people viewed the video in entirety. You can witness this by simply refreshing the YouTube video page and watch the view count increase.
So, yes, I think a zippy title like transsexuals in action could lead to some distorted viewing stats by luring people expecting to see (or searching for) transexuals, which by the way is not an uncommon search term.
You could also name the video deepthroat blowjobs or something like that and watch the view count soar even higher!-JoshOn 5/7/06,
Randolfe Wicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Hope and Josh hit similar note in their
commentary about the large number of hits one of my videos got on
YouTube:
From:
Charles HOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat May 6, 2006
3:57pm(PDT) Subject: Re: Downloading from YouTube.Quite right. I'm
sure that most of the viewers were expecting some Cwith D porno. I wonder
how many stayed through to the end of the video.Joshua Kinberg wrote:The
thing you may be overlooking here with the viewercounts on YouTube is the
fact that you titled that vlog entry,transsexuals in action.Sex sells,
and on YouTube, that is certainly your best bet... whetheror not that video
has anything to do really with transsexuals inaction (I didn't watch it),
the title seems to imply that I would seetranssexuals performing sexual
acts.-Josh**
I don't see anything wrong in zippy packaging of a
product or a message.
Regardless of their motivation, three thousand
people found themselves confronted with transgendered people listing the
injustices they endure.
I'm sure a number did watch the entire video
because the speakers constituted a social show of sorts to the extent they
varied greatly in appearance. Some looked like ordinary women.
Others looked like males who had had sex change operations.
If you're selling eithera message or just
tickets to a movie, your primary goal is to get the viewing public in to see the
show/hear the message. Wasn't the title of one movie about Jesus Christ
entitled The Greatest Story Ever Told? Would a film entitled The Life
of Jesus Christ be as popular?
My title Transsexuals in Action was not
inaccurate. This was the first time in the world that transgendered people
had come together to give speeches and march in the streets demanding their
rights. That's action isn't it?
Putting a zippy title on your vlog is no different
than putting a zippy cover on your book. The best book in the world with a
plain cover will die on the shelves. An intriguing cover at least gets
people to pick up the book (or open the vlog) and give the contents
consideration.
Writing a book that is never read is a waste of
time. Producing a vlog that no one bothers to watch is also a waste of
time. I'd rather be flooded with hate mail for a vlog I produced than to
get no response at all.
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