Would you buy YouTube views?
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" On Dec. 23, a YouTube video that I'd posted in 2008 had 473 views to its name. The video was an inside joke, a clip I shot myself of a friend talking about telegrams on a balcony. It was a parody of rapper Cam'ron's infamous callout of 50 Cent, and I believe I knew everybody who had ever watched it.
When I woke up four days later, "It's Gonna Be a Hot Beach Week" had climbed to more than 60,000 views.
Was it friends? Family? Coincidence? Did Cam'ron reenter the national limelight? None of the above.
I bought the views. And it only cost a little more than $50.
I purchased the views at a number of YouTube view-buying sites, all of which I'd learned about after publishing a story on a number of major music channels losing what amounted to billions of YouTube views right before Christmas.
A litany of emails flowed into my inbox in the days that followed its posting. All of them alluded to the size and scope of the YouTube view-buying industry. They said that view buying was rampant?that it happened in and around all corners of the site."
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