Is Youtube discounting video views from RD?

[ears]

This is only a suspicion, anecdotal based on observations.

Every now and again I have an online race, and occasionally if it's a good race I'll put it up on Youtube. When I do that, I tend to add the video to the RD video feed.

While the video is promoted on the home page, generally it'll mean the video gets a few views. Just a few - mine is not a 'big' channel - maybe between 70-100 let's say.

But then, after a couple of days, the number of views reported by Youtube will drop dramatically, down to say 25.

I have another YT channel that is not racing car related so I don't post the videos here. But with that one, the video views never drop.

So I wonder if, for some reason, YT is deeming views from RD to be non-valuable, as they tend to put it?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I can't reproduce if as we post our own videos here as well and the view counts seem solid. Embedding videos shouldn't affect the count according to youtube.

 

[ears]

I can't reproduce if as we post our own videos here as well and the view counts seem solid. Embedding videos shouldn't affect the count according to youtube.

Thanks for looking into it.

Keep an eye on those view counts though, as after a week or so mine plummeted!

It's all anecdotal, of course, I have no idea if it's the RD views that YT drops.