YouTube is moving to an exposure-based model for views across all formats, meaning a view will now be counted the moment a video begins to play - from the very first frame
Last year, YouTube moved to an exposure-based model for Shorts views. This year, starting August 24th,
No, it鈥檚 about artificially inflating view counts to swindle advertisers into investing on the platform and into specific creators. All this does is incentivize click-bait even more.