YouTube is the world’s biggest video platform. Now it has figured out how to become bigger.
Even better: Google’s video site is going to pull this off without spending a dime.
It’s going to change the way it counts.
That’s the upshot from a new policy the company announced Monday. The details won’t make much sense to you unless you’re a professional YouTube watcher, but the gist is YouTube is going to be more permissive about the way it counts views — which means view counts are going to go up.
Crucially, this won’t affect the way YouTube counts views when it comes to Things That Involve Money — things like figuring out how it shares ad revenue…
