I was browsing YouTube, and found back this classic video by the creator "Rseferino Orbiter Filmmaker", whom I assume many of you know about.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKhuTp5XUs"]Apollo direct landing - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010 - YouTube[/ame]
One thing surprised me though: it had a staggering 19 million views, making it the most viewed Orbiter video to my knowledge! (I first couldn't believe my eyes, thinking it was a YouTube-bug)
Compare that to the user's second most viewed video, counting 750 thousand views.
Playing internet detective, using this YouTube tracking website, it becomes apparent that the video got close to 10 million view count boost within the two weeks from March 9th to 23rd, 2020.
Another surprising thing: it had "only" 281 comments. But as the most recent comment is from 5 months ago, coinciding with the last upload, the video creator probably is moderating every comment before displaying it, I'm assuming due to moon-landing deniers.
So, I guess the point of my post is (other than to share the happy news), does anybody know where this increase in view count could come from?
Either the mysterious entity "The YouTube Algorithm" is the culprit (although the view boost is mostly lower in my experience), or maybe it was embeded/shared on a webpage with an enormous reach?
(by comparison, this Quora anecdotal evidence says a popular New York Times article gets something like 10 million total views)
Anyway, it really shows the potential reach in YouTube videos. Rseferino's subscriber count as a consequence jumped by 30 000 users. Just imagine what 30 000 new people could do to a community ...
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKhuTp5XUs"]Apollo direct landing - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010 - YouTube[/ame]
One thing surprised me though: it had a staggering 19 million views, making it the most viewed Orbiter video to my knowledge! (I first couldn't believe my eyes, thinking it was a YouTube-bug)
Compare that to the user's second most viewed video, counting 750 thousand views.
Playing internet detective, using this YouTube tracking website, it becomes apparent that the video got close to 10 million view count boost within the two weeks from March 9th to 23rd, 2020.
Another surprising thing: it had "only" 281 comments. But as the most recent comment is from 5 months ago, coinciding with the last upload, the video creator probably is moderating every comment before displaying it, I'm assuming due to moon-landing deniers.
So, I guess the point of my post is (other than to share the happy news), does anybody know where this increase in view count could come from?
Either the mysterious entity "The YouTube Algorithm" is the culprit (although the view boost is mostly lower in my experience), or maybe it was embeded/shared on a webpage with an enormous reach?
(by comparison, this Quora anecdotal evidence says a popular New York Times article gets something like 10 million total views)
Anyway, it really shows the potential reach in YouTube videos. Rseferino's subscriber count as a consequence jumped by 30 000 users. Just imagine what 30 000 new people could do to a community ...