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  • Phil Nottingham   Oct 13 2012   Flag

    I think this has been broadly true for a couple of years now - with "engagement" (amount of people watching the video through rather than dropping off) being the primary ranking factor for some time. The view count on YouTube is inaccurate and can be inorganically increased through Google display network advertising anyway. While it's often viewed as the basic metric of success by Marketers and general web users - I don't think there's any reason to think Google use it as significant ranking factor at all.

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