> An important message from the YouTube Team:

> Video view counts reflect the YouTube community's interests and the
> grassroots popularity of videos. We periodically make changes that
> allow us to display consistent view counts and accurately reflect a
> "real" view based on video consumption, video streaming and spam
> filtering. Unfortunately, a few people still try to artificially
> manipulate their video's view counts. Some people game third-party
> view counts as well. That can make things unfair for everyone.

> Recently, we found spamming issues associated with the view counts on
> a small number of videos. The inflated view count number on these
> videos will be frozen until actual views catch up to the published,
> artificial, view count. Also, a few people have commented that their
> view counts are updating more slowly. Occasionally the speed with
> which views update changes -- sometimes it’s faster and sometimes it’s
> slower. But we are always working to make sure that the final view
> count numbers are an accurate reflection of the community's interest.

> The YouTube Team