I Spent a Year Investigating Channels Buying Views. Here's How to Identify Those.

From publicly available automakers' data, you can learn how to identify paid views and figure out who's buying. Paid views are a dirty secret. Everyone knows it happens — but few know who’s doing it, until now. I'm a content consultant and I've spent a year investigating paid views, examining hundreds of channels, and discovered the specific indicators that paid views leave behind in publicly available data. That data pattern is easily visible in automakers' YouTube videos. Many consider those fake views because they aren't earned or organic - nobody has chosen to watch the video. In some cases, there's nobody watching at all, like with click farm views.   / auto.tea