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>>kaeruc+(OP)
Sounds like they take it more serious than Google does likes on Youtube. A competitor had a video that rapidly had over 100k likes - but if you looked at the total time played, each view averaged to just a couple of seconds on a video over 10 minutes. Reported it, but nothing came of it. (No, not something we regularly do. I think it may be the only video I've ever reported; just want a fair playing field)

>>bdcrav+vR
youtube competitor. that's just funny to me. kind of even comes across as petty. you took however much time to investigate average viewed time of a competitor and then cried to daddy about the perceived slight in "advantage" instead of taking that time to improve your competing product to make it better.

>>dylan6+zS
No, we had someone show up out the blue, with no established presence in the space, with a video with hundreds of thousands of views. Was curious how they were so viral so fast.

Overall, it's bad for everyone if someone can create fraudulent views: us, other companies, and most importantly, consumers.

> taking that time to improve your competing product to make it better.

Took less than 3 minutes to do the math and send the report. I'm a fast developer, but I can't improve our product that fast :-)