"He started with the dodgiest option first. Bot views. For $26, he bought 10,000 of them. On the surface, it seemed to work. The counter went up, which is exactly what these services promise. Then he checked the important stuff. Turns out, watch time barely moved, subscriber growth was tiny, and click-through rate was weak. The graph spiked, then flattened out. Sure, his views increased, but they didn't behave like real viewers. They didn't stay, click, or come back."
"After that, Jones moved into more official tools. YouTube Studio's Promotions feature lets creators pay them directly to promote a video as an ad. He spent about $100 and got a lot of impressions, a modest number of views, and a surprisingly solid bump in subscribers. The catch was watch time. Most viewers didn't hang around long enough to make those views truly valuable."
Marcus Jones purchased multiple types of paid views to test effects on channel growth. He bought 10,000 cheap bot views for $26 that increased the view counter but produced barely any watch time, tiny subscriber growth, and a weak click-through rate; the view graph spiked and then flattened. He purchased higher-priced 'real' views with similar results: brief watches, no engagement, and no retention. He used YouTube Studio Promotions for about $100, gaining many impressions, modest views, and a noticeable subscriber bump, but watch time remained low. He began running Google Ads to show videos as skippable or in-feed ads to scale promotion.
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