This is a response to YouTube is stealing my views, please read that article first.
So, this is basically what I found about the YouTube views. YouTube is attempting to calculate the number of real views versus people who watch the video over again and over again, software programs that create views, or other ways the view numbers can get inflated. According to the articles I read the best way to find out your current view count is to look at your analytics page. This should be the most accurate number.
It takes about 24 hours for YouTube to go through the processes to accurately determine what they consider the “true number of views”. This means if you check the numbers early they should be really close together, but can get further apart as the day progresses depending on the activity around the video. In turn, videos that are getting a lot of hits will have the most problems while videos with less than 20 hits per day should have the accurate number of views.
