YouTube views can be manipulated

Article: [Exclusive] 'Youtube views' can be manipulated through money

Source: MBN via Naver

Just doing a straight translation. It's in transcript format of a news report.

[Journalist] One idol group's YouTube video was found with a drastic spike in views within a few hours for no particular reason at all, lending to suspicion of manipulation.

MBN investigated into the matter and discovered that through an American YouTube website, views can be easily manipulated.

[Journalist/Lee Hae Wan] For just $6, you can submit an order to a company to raise the views of a video from 42 to 3,600 in just under a day. Some obvious signs of the views being manipulated can be seen in the most viewed countries, which were listed as the Netherlands and Germany despite the video being in Korean.

The average time people viewed the video was listed as 0 seconds. The company claimed that they can raise views up to 350,000 and admitted to having experience with K-Pop video requests.

[Interview: Industry insider] "There are a lot of people in the industry who manipulate YouTube views. The problem is that those views make up a big reflection in the rankings for music programs."

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1. [+1,115, -102] This is not even surprising ㅋㅋㅋ I knew from the moment EXO won over Jo Yong Pil in Music Bank

2. [+794, -16] You know what else you can pay to put out? Media play articles

3. [+770, -73] Further proof is T-ara's new music video. No one even knew it came out but it 3 million views in a day. No one cared about Ilbeyon Pop's song either until it randomly blew up a few months later.

4. [+529, -70] Bar Bar Bar?

5. [+513, -83] Ilbeyon Pop is proof ㅋㅋㅋ

6. [+401, -38] K-Pop will be ruined at this rate with all this rush for instant popularity

7. [+351, -8] What can money not accomplish?

8. [+288, -5] Naver search rankings can be manipulated too ㅋㅋ

9. [+223, -27] Crayon Pop and EXO ㅋㅋㅋ

10. [+199, -7] Why does Korea manipulate everything...

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