Guide to YouTube Video Views
YouTube themselves take great care to ensure that views are generated by humans and not computers so that your statistics and views aren’t adversely affected. There are 3 main ways types of view that are ignored:
• Reloaded views – This is when a page is refreshed to instigate an additional view
• Viruses – If a computer looks like software designed to watch YouTube videos
• Autoplay – Having a website auto-playing your video will not count as a view
As views can be a very obvious way to measure the success of your video and channel overall, it isn’t the only metric that you need to focus on, however, a good rule of thumb is that if your YouTube channel has 100,000 subscribers, then you should expect between 12-15,000 views per video. That's an average ratio of views: subscribers = 14%.
If you are starting out on your YouTube journey, then 100,000 subscribers will not be a workable number for you, so try and aim for the 14% ratio of subscribers to views.
Tips for increasing your view numbers are:
• Make good, engaging content
• Write a good video description
• Ensure your thumbnail is eye-catching and relevant
• Use “Call to Actions”