it has 45 million views, which is a lot of wet phones. The video first appeared on YouTube four years ago, so it's still relatively young in the grand scheme of the video-sharing service.

There’s been a lot of noise this week about YouTube Shorts “view count inflation.” But let’s be clear: this change is more about optics than impact. YouTube’s new policy, effective March ...

Today, Google announced that YouTube would count Shorts views based on when a clip starts ... if a user hits play and one second later swipes up on their phone, that creator still sees the ...