by cactuspete » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:55 am
mrgreen: Alex Jones might not be saying anything that hasn't been said thousands of times before, but it's a message that bears repeating. The John Oliver video is a perfect example. It received 600k in a day before being placed on the trending list, but well over three million in a single day after being put on the trending list. Currently it's up over five million total views. If Google wants people to see something it will wind up on the trending list. Sometimes videos actually earn their way onto the list, but often Google puts them there so that more people see them. The John Oliver video is long and boring. It would probably had topped out below a million views without a little extra help from our good friends at Google. Having said all that, I'd be willing to bet that most people only watched 40 seconds of the video before going on to something better.