The video received so many views, it actually got stuck at 628 million views at around the 16-hour mark as YouTube struggled to keep up with the count before updating to 1.4 billion at around the ...

YouTube view counts are initially tracked by servers near the end user. ... The code tells the database to keep counting views up to and including the time when the count is equal to 300, ...

YouTube junkies are probably familiar with a mysterious glitch in the video platform's view-count system; a new video will show up all over the web, clearly going viral, but the view count is ...

Rick Astley's music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" has reached over 1 billion YouTube views. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) "It’s done me a lot of good, probably.

Bundle that all up, send it over. And YouTube sends back a single answer — hopefully it's a response code of 200, which means OK, with confirmation of what the video's data has changed to." ...

Sesame Street is the first nonprofit organization and U.S. children’s company to reach one billion YouTube views. The show hit the milestone just a few weeks after launching a campaign that ...

YouTube has been counting any hovering or scrolling past a thumbnail as an active video. This madness should stop! Hey YouTube, a swipe or a hover is not an active view!

YouTube’s new policy, effective March 31, shifts the definition of a view to match what already exists on TikTok and Instagram Reels — counting a view the moment a video starts playing or replays.