viewcount
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]viewcount (plural viewcounts)
- The number of views.
- 2007, Connecting People Using Google™ For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, page 19:
- High viewcounts come from videos that are compelling, not contrived.
- 2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 114:
- In the corner of YouTube, I spot the viewcount on the bottom right: 14,727,216 views.
- 2012, Kiri Miller, Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (The Oxford Music/Media Series), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231:
- Because viewcounts wield so much power in search rankings, they are a contentious subject among YouTube uploaders.
- 2012 December 3, Paul McNamara, “Taking ‘Internet answers’ for granted”, in Network World, volume 29, number 21, page 34:
- Another 10 seconds on Google brought me this answer from a YouTube employee via Quora: “YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means. […]”
- 2014, Steve Sammartino, The Great Fragmentation and Why the Future of Business Is Small, Wiley, →ISBN, page 226:
- A viewcount that’s frozen at 300 is one of the great success indicators of a project being launched through YouTube. It means it’s being viewed so often, and shared so frequently, that YouTube has to check that nothing dodgy is happening.
- 2016, Vikki Blake, Wesley Copeland, Jason Fanelli, Barry Keating, Carrie Mok, Dominic Reseigh-Lincoln, John Robertson, Edward Smith, Gaming Live!: Your Guide to Video Game Livestreaming, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 57:
- Although he doesn’t have the same viewcount as some of the other players on this list, EVO 2013 runner-up Robert “ICWobbles” Wright is worth checking out.