If one person watches the same YouTube video twice, does it count it as one or two views?

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If one person watches the same YouTube video twice, does it count it as one or two views?

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Anshul Gumber, Youtuber

Updated Feb 6, 2019 · Author has 387 answers and 859.3k answer views

Originally Answered: Does replaying a YouTube video count as a view?

Yes, Let me explain you the simple rules of youtube count.
Youtube treats a view as a count when you play video for 30 seconds or more.
Now if a video is shorter than 30 seconds so youtube will treat it as count on complete video play . Like video is 20 sec long so have to watch for 20 sec to get a view.
Youtube never stops anyone from viewing a video until its private or blocked in a country or or have +18 content.
That means even owner can watch that video for 30 times . But it is against the ads clicking by the owner .
Replaying a video would give a count . If you watched 50 times a video so 50 views would be added to the total count.
One more thing that youtube keeps that 30 sec playtime to treat as a count is because no one could completely judge what a video contains with a thumbnail . In that case you need and according to a survey a normal user need 20–30 sec to judge whether to watch or not .
And its total 30 seconds count if you skipped to the middle part and watched for 20 sec and then skipped to last part and watched for 10 sec so it will be treated as count.
Update 2
Spam Note: If you continuously play a video alot on repeat in a row, youtube will stop counting views on that video after sometime to protect spam even though you are good there (This happens for sometime then like next day you watch again your views will count again)
Hope this helps . Do Upvote if it was helpful.
Update : Thank you guys for your upvotes :)

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Sidheswar Dash, Work at Satsang (2014-present)

Answered Mar 27, 2018

Initial YouTube accounts it as a view but later ( after 48hr or 300 views ) if you're video view count audited by the YouTube algorithm (Artificial Intelligence) then Watch Time, Users ID, IP Address, etc. may affect (decrease your video view count) view count and revenue ✌️
Last year PewDiePie lost millions of YouTube video views only for this reason
Me too



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James Cullens

Answered Dec 9, 2014

Originally Answered: Does watching the same YouTube video multiple times from the same user account or IP address increase its view count?

I'm not a full YT geek. But, If you want to increase views, you would need to install TOR, then create a program to

1. Open it
2. run the video
3.close TOR
4.repeat

Since TOR uses different IP addresses every time it starts, there should be no way for youtube to know. Assuming your not logged in.

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