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How Does the YouTube Algorithm Work? A Guide to Getting More Views

Hootsuite

But here’s the long answer, too: 2005-2012: View count (a.k.a. 2012: Watch time (a.k.a. In 2012, the platform announced an update to the discovery system designed to identify the videos people actually want to watch. Trending videos. How do 2 billion users find what they want to watch? view duration). Your subscriptions.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/12/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. Think email is dead? Think again.