Does Buying YouTube Views Violate TOS or not

Good question.

First thought that pops in my mind is why would anyone buy view?

It's like buying clicks to your website I would think.

You are not getting views of people actually interested in what you are offering.

This is my opinion I'm not IM expert yet.

I do know that YouTube is a huge asset for business owners.

A great traffic generating move is a Top 10 Most Asked Questions YouTube video in relations to your niche.

Manny

Wouldn't it be wise to read the TOS to check.

I spread them out and they are fine. I think YouTube video are taken down because of your competitors unfortunately!

I believe the increased views to a youtube video is beneficial not necessarily because that kind of traffic is targeted but because the popularization will attract future traffic which may very well be targeted. Although, bounce rate is another thing to consider - you don't want people clicking away from your videos before they finish - that is a negative indication to youtube. Well, honestly I'm not quite sure, but I imagine that's the case.

Buying Youtube views is worthless. It's a waste of time, and people won't buy because of your views.... they will clickthrough and view your article if it's targeted, and if it's perceived to be something that they need to listen to.

It depends on the service. If you buy fake views, that is against ToS, but if it is real viewers, it is totally fine. I suggest ViewTornado for fast and real views.

Thanks for the question, I was wondering the same thing too

I think buying views is fine, as long as it's not too fast. It's good because of perception.

Buying youtube views is against youtube's tos..you can not derive traffic to your video through any any paid means.

I buy YouTube views quite frequently. I think i usually get a good CTR on my videos purchasing about 5,000 views. As long as they are real and the company spreads them within a view days your good to go.

I use vagex for quite a while and it generates 1-2k views per day for me.
My video's rank increase after this and i will use this service to another video once the organic views come.
Right now my video already on the top of certain keywords.

If the traffic comes from bots, yes, you will get banned. However, if your traffic comes from humans, which is the case with most view-boosting services, there's nothing youtube can do about it.

Guaranteedviral.com, one of the biggest providers of youtube views can get you as many as 2 MILLION views in 24 hours if you can pay for it. And you still don't get banned by youtube, because the views are coming from humans.

I am beginning to think Vagex is part human / part bots. I went ahead and give it a try and bought a 30 day subscription. What I notice is yes, suddenly the traffic is a lot faster, but there's an interesting feature. I noticed that with my email account registered with the Youtube account, it shows all the activity (likes, comments, etc.), but Youtube Indox is no where near as busy. Does this mean the other stuff is just bots?

"Paying for views" should be qualified as human views or fake bot views.

Paying for real human eyes should be the same as PPC traffic. Paying
to game the system with bot views I'm sure would get you banned.

-Ray Edwards

We sell views and ourselves like alot of other sellers are selling real views, very few people left now use bots for views and youtube caught up with that a long long time ago, that is why views cost alot more now then they used it.

As long as it is real traffic views your purchasing its not against youtubes TOS as it is just the same as purchasing a PPC adspace, we have completed 1000s of orders anincd never had an issue and have checked through youtube's TOS.

with regards to why you would buy views, it really depends what your video is about, if its a affliate program etc... then its pointless buying views and its untargetted traffic but if your a musician or business increased views firstly helps in rankings and also gives a level of credential to a video, if you musician has 100k views you instantly feel like he is a musician worth listening to rather than someone with 200 views.

If you monetize it, it is definately against the TOCs

The answer is no however the main key to ranking in youtube is backlinks then you can use a service called content buzz to get other people to promote your video too 30 bucks a month its all geared toward getting your video ranked within youtube

Great point Randal.

And I think it is not only a waste of time but a violation of YouTubes TOS. You take a big risk of having your account shut down...

If you are using YouTube as a way to promote your product or service, why would you take the risk by buying views?

I have heard many marketers here at the WF lament the fact that their YouTube account was shut down for one reason or another. And all the work they put into building their YouTube channel just went up in smoke. They got a handful of nothing to show for their efforts.

I think buying views is a very fine line. you are dancing on a razor blade.

Now if you want to buy views from Goolge through your Adwords account, that is a totally different story.

Why would you want to risk getting your account shut down? Then you lose everything.

Why risk it?

Unfortunately: when you play in Google's Stadium you play by their rules.

So play be their rules or take your game somewhere else...

I think buying views for your YouTube videos is a violation of their TOS, IMO...

Buying Traffic to youtube pages and buying traffic to click adsense ads is against TOS of Google....

If once caught they don't re-instate accounts and also don't hear any appeals....

I hope this info comes handy

I wouldn't worry much about it if you are simply buying views to kick-start your video with the idea of getting organic views afterwards (and as long as you are NOT engaging in click fraud or your video itself doesn't go against to ToS). Because people are more inclined to check out videos with many views and they also rank higher in the Youtube search results.

It's sort of like buying/selling links - Technically it violates Google's guidelines, but has been going on (and will continue to go on) for years.

I don't think views breaks their TOS but it could get your in trouble where they might flag it.

There seems to be a virtual industry of selling views so it must be popular. I've seen people complain because their account was frozen by Utube because the views they bought were delivered in a manner that Utube concluded was artificial.

The sellers of views are trying to stay one step ahead of detection methods.

Buying views is used to purely get site count up like any SEO your content may be the best out there but if no one sees it it counts for nothing.
TOS = if you check them you will see.
There are some services that offer ways to invite folks to your site.
If you set up automatic play on the video it will also gain a view...

why buy views if they aren't really interested

That the point dude
if you worried youtube will banned your ID
so let's do it normal
why get worried

Only if you are getting paid to advertise for your video.

Views, likes, subs, favs and comments in addition to age all contribute to how youtube search algorithm displays the search results.

I dont see the problem with inflating them numbers a little bit to earn yourself more natural search traffic from youtube and if you don't monetize the video I don't think it is against there TOS.

"Do not encourage others to click your ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks, including clicks on your videos to inflate views. This includes commissioning third party agencies that advertise these services to increase your viewership. The purchase or gaming of subscribers, views or any other channel features is a violation of our Terms of Service. Learn more."

I'm a little unsure where exactly the line goes, especially with the part that saying "commissioning third party agencies" to advertise.
Now obviously any advertising I do for my Youtube video, IS to increase it's views and my viewership.

If I set up an ad, linking to one of my videos, and that add runs on a PPC model (pay per click), I am in essence "paying to click", or rather, I'm paying someone per person that clicks and sees my videos.
Second, if I hire an agency to promote my videos on various sites, social media, and so forth, again, of course I'm doing that in the hopes that people will click and see my video. I am, in essence, paying a company to get me views.

In fact, since the point of any advertising is for people to see your videos, any sort of paid advertising (which most advertising is) would be deemed against the TOS.
Is this really correct? It seems a bit far-fetched, that I can't actually hire agencies to promote my videos :S

Now obviously using bots would be against the TOS, that goes without saying. You could also argue that services that work, by people >literally being paid per video they watch< would also be against the TOS. But if a service functions by putting up the video on various social media sites, or their own high-traffic sites, and getting views that way, I don't see an issue.

Buying views is against the TOS but there are many people who ignore it... If you have many views on YouTube your video will be on the top of the results easier and your videos will be listed on the feature videos more.

In my opinion if you buy some views at the beginning it will be helpful, even if it is "illegal" is a way to drive your video to the popularity.

one of the biggest thing that you missed, some you tube videos can become pr 5 and above quite easily. Now put a value of a pr 5 back link to your site. And yes spammy plig/social media back links help as do viewer counts.

I have found someone whose getting me 200 a day for 25 days for a fiverr but I have a youtube partners account, is this risky? The views do look legit as they are consistently growing.

Vagex (the world's worst name for a company) is different. These are real views, and they are in the USA.

You are using a free account and are trading views. Stop that, pay a little every month and the views will come quickly. For me, usually 1,000 a day for each video.

You can also get "likes" "subscriptions" and "Comments". The comments look like spam because they are. Don't use them.

And vary the length of the views. 60 seconds for a day or so, then maybe 90 seconds..(in a 90 second video).

The only downside of Vagex is that their network of people running videos on their computer is large but not infinite. If I think I'm getting 5,000 views, Youtube may only give me credit for 4,000 because 1,000 are from repeat viewers.

But it's still a good deal. I pay $30 a month for 100,000 30 second views.

I no longer view their videos to rack up credits because my computer keeps thinking the videos are a virus. They aren't but I can't seem to convince my computer...so it eventually stops viewing videos.

Personally, I use Vagex to get maybe 1,000 views on client videos (Yes, I tell them the views are from a service, not from local customers). And then the natural views take over.

Want to get your video (maybe your account) deleted? Buy 100,000 views that are delivered in 10 minutes.


To do this in a more natural way, buy the WSO Video Thunder from Kurt in post #51. I did,and it was one of the top video marketing TSOs I'm implimenting.

That's real advice, I'm not an affiliate.

I don't think it a real concern while lot of people purchase youtube viewers and get into trouble.
I saw someone get warning of buying facebook fans but never saw people getting trouble on buying youtube views.

It should be against the TOS but many people are doing it, just don't get caught and you'll be fine.

personally, I'm considering to buy YouTube views because my video will be listed on the feature videos

Yes if your video contains adsense you will get your adsense banned, but you can remove the adsense and then buy it.

Why do you want to buy views?
Is it because you are having difficulties providing a video of value?
Or do you really want your YouTube account shut down?

Never buy youtube views if you are running adsense codes on your videos. google will ban you because the person whom you buy views , will use some wrong methods to drive traffic to your videos.

You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. YouTube reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Service (e.g., comments, email) for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Service with respect to their Content.

I've seen people complain because their account was frozen by Utube because the views they bought were delivered in a manner that Utube concluded was artificial.

As long as they stay in the guidelines of youtubes tos and api there isn't anything wrong with it. Vagex is a great place, its actual people watching the vids so it is within the tos of youtube.

I dont think its against TOS or else they wouldnt be available on fiverr or Seoclerks of buying them.

Youtube ranks videos based on engagement. More views, like and comments means higher rankings which results in organic views, likes and comments.

but just buying views isn't going to do it because anyone can do that. You can buy views on Fiverr. I don't though. There's only one site I use out of the 100s I've ran across.

There are REAL views that don't cost $5 for 50,000. When buying views, you should buy like and comments if available and you have to have them all working together.

It would look fishy if you get 10k views then a week later, 200 likes and some comments.

Don't buy the fake views because YouTube definitely hates those. I only suggest buying views for videos that you want to go viral; like those Harlem shake videos. If I had made one, i guarantee it would have been one of the most popular ones ever.

Case and point: I went into a niche where I guess they don't know how to buy engagement. I say this because some videos have 1000s of views and no likes and that's not gonna cut it...

I bought 10k views and a 100+ likes with 50+ comments I believe. (Not from Fiverr)

Fast forward to now, I'm sitting at 797k views, 984 Likes and 440 dislikes and just over a 1000 subscribers; and this is for an affiliate product. The dislikes are because I did something to get some more optins to my list which actually worked.

There's risk in everything. I got one of my accounts banned for a few months due to a competitor flagging my videos. I wasn't even buying views for that channel. It was my personal channel.

I've never had any problems and i've bought 100s of thousands of views as well as sent 100s of thousands of views to clients; heck one got contacted by one of the professional wrestling companies because they liked the buzz they had going on and liked presentation..

That's because they ordered FAKE mobile views. Most of those can be found on Fiverr. I never buy views from Fiverr. All views get stuck at 301 views. It's something YouTube does to check the validity of your views. I've never had a problem.

You are 100% right RacheLily. The service I use even tells you to turn off adsense because Adsense checks everything. What you do though is turn them off until your campaign is over. Once the video goes viral, you're talking $$$$$. My first viral video was making me an extra $100 a month.

Hope that helps

I just think that it is about seeming you are an authority. I 've bought 20,000 views before and i got organic traffic fast. They had to be real views because I made sales from the tracking link i place on the description.

I think it does violate TOS but it is a method that has proven to work.

The sellers of views are trying to stay one step ahead of detection methods.

As a rule, it's so much better to attract views organically

Pretty sure it does especially if the video is monetized, but why would you even want to have fake YouTube views anyway.

The best bet is to always be legit. Google/Youtube deeply understand the systems they create. They can get a good idea of your actual views based on real user interaction (comments, subscriptions, shares, etc) so it's best to not rock the boat if you're trying to keep your channel from getting banned.

I don't know if you are aware you don't have to buy illegal Youtube views from sites and others. Illegal views can get you ban.

You can buy views directly from Youtube Trueview Ads and you will be safe and your video will thrive...

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Paying for views is how a lot of these videos go viral. You can put your video on Traffic exchange sites(for free) and use a few services that will help. the biggest issue is the amount of time the people are on your videos. If your paying for views then pay for comments, subscribes and Likes as well. Mix it up and don't overdo it. YouTube will look at views from IP Addresses and things like that to determine if you cheating or not...

Good Luck

The first important thing to know is that buying views for your YouTube videos is not against TOS. YouTube probably doesn't want you to do this since they want you to promote your videos with their advertising methods. But buying views alone is not likely to get your account banned. You can also buy subscribers to your channel. However, there are definitely some situations where buying YouTube views could violate a contract that you have, such as if you are using Adsense on your videos.

I have had a number of my Youtube accounts closed down for no reason, other than having many videos on page one of google. I would not buy views. Google will close your account for just about any reason. If you have other youtube accounts, thats fine, but not on your main account.

It's violate youtube TOS and youtube user banned from this reason so don't try this method to getting views on videos.