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"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership (www.sportskeeda.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How does that even work? If someone viewed the video then they viewed the video. Are they simply not counting people who basically clicked by accident or who only watched the first 30sec before deciding that they didn’t actually want to watch the video?

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Even before this drop in views, the rule was you have to watch a video for at least 30 seconds before it counts as a view, as a way to combat clickbait where people instantly bounce from a video. Maybe they have changed this further? Or they change some kind of bot detection?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    It could even be something "innocent" about how ad-blockers have started to interact with the site as YouTube ramps up their anti-adblock measures and the ad-blockers have to change how they work. Like maybe the ad-blockers have started blocking the JavaScript callback that logs the views.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    thats probably it, the influencers always remind people adblocking or not subscribing hurts thier channel. plus if your adblocking you arnt exposed to multiple ads in a single video.

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