Summary of the video<p>This was interesting question that was answered, but it's becoming an annoying trend to have 10-minute videos of things that can explained in a few sentences. Here's basically everything the video had to say:<p>Q: When you submit a video to YouTube, why the does view count grow nicely hour by hour, 6 views, 57 views, 188 views, and so on, but then seems to get stuck at 301 views and doesn't advance from there for a long time?<p>A: YouTube doesn't do much checking on the veracity of videos that get <= 300 views. The 300 was an arbitrary threshold that no one remembers the origin of. As of 301 views, YouTube will apply more sophisticated video analytics to check for cheating against the view count (by bots, etc.).<p>Once a video reaches a view count of 301, it'll stay stuck there for a half day or full day until YouTube does the video analytics, after which they will allow the count to be updated if it was not found to be fraudulent.