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Because people still watch Youtube and Youtube can legally add these people to the viewcount and then sell that viewcount to the buyers of ads.

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Why do the buyers of ads care? I don't get it. They only care about impressions of ads.

Because Youtube 'sells' the viewcount as a substitute for the impressions. 'Hey, look! This video had 55M views! Imagine how many buyers you could have!'

That makes absolutely no sense. The advertisers can't advertise to Albanian so they can't pay for neither impressions nor clicks.

If you mean that the goal of this is to attract advertisers by seeing a larger view count, then that doesn't make any sense either as I don't think there's any doubt among advertisers that YouTube is the leading video platform online.

"Bigger number = better" marketing is still easier than something more fine-grained, even if YT is the leading platform.

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