

User Lattentreffer posted on SonymusicSME: 'Pretty much f*** you, sonymusic. Google declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline.Ĭommenters on the Sony YouTube channel gloated over the major record labels' apparent comeuppance.

Universal acknowledged its drop in views, but told the Daily Dot its channel had been mostly dormant since it shifted its focus to Vevo, which it founded in 2009 together with Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media Company, and E1 Entertainment. Record labels have blamed the cuts in their viewing figures on a change in the way that YouTube has changed its view count.īillboard reported how the Google-owned company recently decided to remove view counts for so-called 'dead videos', which were no longer live on the channel.Ī senior label executive told the music industry trade magazine that since thousands of videos had in fact been migrated to Vevo, the views those clips accrued during their time on their dedicated label channels were taken away in YouTube's 'clean up'. This graph tracks the loss in views suffered by Sony BMG: The label behind such stars as Alicia Keys, Rita Ora and Labrinth lost more than 850million views in a single day In one thread on the forum, where YouTube included a link to the site's policy on 'viewcount gaming, the first post spoke of a 'friend' who 'sells likes' who had been told by four different customers that their videos were deleted due to violations of YouTube's terms of service. Many speculated they fallen victim to a technical error, but YouTube replied to confirm that the users had been sanctioned for violating TOS item 4, Section H, which bans artificially inflating view counts.Īccording to the Daily Dot, the apparent crackdown last week was widely discussed on the Black Hat World forum, where visitors exchange advice on unethical search engine optimisation tactics.
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The mass takedowns came the same day that hundreds of the site's users flooded forums to complain they had suffered a series of video deletions for violations of YouTube's terms of service. More than a million partners have signed up to advertise on YouTube.In 2011, YouTube had more than 1trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth.72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.Over 4billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube.
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The unprecedented move left Universal with just five videos on the site - none of which were music - and Sony with just three. The dramatic cuts came as YouTube conducted a crackdown on fake views, but music industry sources have blamed it on housekeeping related to the migration of their videos across different channels. Sony was second hardest hit, with the label behind such stars as Alicia Keys, Rita Ora and Labrinth losing more than 850million views in a single day. Universal, home of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, lost a total of one billion views in the video site’s biggest ever crackdown on its viewing figures.
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The world's biggest recording companies have been stripped of two billion YouTube hits after the website cracked down on alleged 'fake' and 'dead' views. Rihanna: Her record label, Universal Music, was the biggest loser from a YouTube video view crackdown
