Youtube Video View Count Stuck, Frozen after 300 Views ?

If you’ve uploaded videos to your youtube channel you might have seen this occurring where your youtube view count stays frozen after 300. Don’t worry as this is not a problem. Let see why this happens…

Why Youtube View Count Seems to Freeze, Stuck at 300 Views ?

It has to do with what YouTube counts as a view. Before your youtube video hits 300 views, the system doesn’t care how you generate a page hit on your video. You could theoretically just hit the refresh button on your browser 300 times and get the counter all the way up to around 300 views and youtube’s algorithms won’t treat it as false, invalid impression.

From the Official Explanation : YouTube has sophisticated technology to count views consistently. If this algorithms detects that there has been an attempt to inflate a video’s view count artificially, that video’s view count will be frozen. During the time in which the view count appears frozen, valid views will continue to be counted.

But as soon as you cross 300 views, YouTube’s internal counting system takes a more careful look at what they call "unique" views. This means that to count a view as a valid "youtube video view", that video should be viewed from a different PC (unique IP addresses). Hence, this way one can correctly know which is the most popular, most viewed youtube video.
Also, you must note that the counting process after 300 youtube video views is not instant. The process of counting the new "unique views" takes from few hours to even few days. So that might be another reason for your youtube video view count not increasing.
So, the main thing to note is that, after 300 video views… you must get unique visits on your youtube video to make it count as a view. So, if you’ve got few subscribers and a video that has a lot of video views from repeat visits/your own visits, it might take some time to see an update in that youtube video’s view count.
Let us know in comments if this helped you…