Youtube prevents fake stuffs

• Posted by T Ghosh February 7, 2014 - Filed in Business - #video  #youtube  - 1,320 views
  The Google-owned video site YouTube announced that it has started auditing the number of views a video has received in a bid to prevent users from artificially inflating view counts who does it by injecting anomally scripts.
  
   There were concerns about some viewers using tools like 'redirects' or 'buying' views to boost their count and mislead people about the popularity of a particular video.
  
  YouTube would now 'periodically' validate the views on videos and remove the fraudulent ones from the total.
  
  Google in its statement said that some bad actors are not only trying to game the system byartificially inflating view counts but also undermining one of YouTube's most important and unique qualities.
  
  The company maintained that the new approach would not affect more than a minuscule fraction of videos on YouTube.
  
  Meanwhile, analysts have pointed out the approach to clamp down on fraudulent views was also aimed at assuring advertising firms that their campaigns on the portal were reaching a genuine audience.
  
  It needs to maintain trust among advertisers for continued revenue growth. Asia-Pacific head of Lewis Pulse, a firm specializing in digital marketing, Sanjana Chappalli, said that YouTube is just one of the many options on the social media that companies looking to advertise .