Tag Archives: analytics

Why Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom was “stuck” at 301 views on YouTube »

June 26th, 2012

HBO decided to publish the entire first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s latest TV-series Newsroom to YouTube. When I visited that page on YouTube yesterday I saw that the views were only at 301 and the video had been on YouTube for a good portion of the day already. I thought: “Well, that was a flop.”

But, then I saw this video by YouTube user numberfile explaining while most videos “freeze” at 301 views before continuing a day later. It turns out that YouTube’s analytics team does this on purpose to allow for “fake views” and the worldwide caching phenomenon to play out before they show an accurate count. YouTube considers views “a currency”.

Interesting stuff.

Everyone is playing Oregon Trail online I guess

August 4th, 2010

Over 1,000 people found my post on playing Oregon Trail online yesterday. Yes, yesterday alone. Since I linked to it 18 months ago nearly 100,000 people have found that post via Google, Bing and other places and the day-to-day visitors to that post is growing faster than any other page on this site.

It seems everyone is playing Oregon Trail online.