Total data transferred to unique IPs / size of the video.
Because the logs are all over the place (CDNs), it takes about 1 day for the view count to be updated.
This is a more accurate and abuse proof way of counting "views". Your simple "1 click = 1 view" is abuse prone, which is why it is not done this way.
can you expand on this? Do you mean that if the video is 1MB and 200 UNIQUE IPs download 500kb each it will count as 100 views?
Total data transferred to unique IPs / size of the video.
Because the logs are all over the place (CDNs), it takes about 1 day for the view count to be updated.
This is a more accurate and abuse proof way of counting "views". Your simple "1 click = 1 view" is abuse prone, which is why it is not done this way.