note
For the YouTube AdSense
program, views are only
counted after 30 seconds
of a video being watched
or, if the video is shorter
than that, the entire
length of a video watched.
In order to ensure that
unscrupulous individuals
and businesses don’t
inflate their view
numbers, YouTube uses
technology to identify
‘views’ by spam bots,
malware and other
software and removes
these from the count. This
legitimises the view count
beneath the video.