Okay, after investigating with some users problem, we have founded out why there is a decrease in most users views.
First of all; it’s not a problem but a new term that we have added couple of days ago (in 30 DEC) in order to fix the low rates technical issue that some users were facing.
The new terms is, that we don’t count any views except when the viewer complete 10% of the video total length, compared to our old term where we were counting the view whenever the viewer click on the player (and that was the reason why there was low rates). Counting views whenever a user click on the player cause a very low rates issue and that’s why Openload rates is $25 for Tier 1 because they count views whenever a viewer click on the player.
So, we fixed the low rates problem by counting views only when the viewer complete 10% of the video total length because after we have contacted couple of very famous alternative services in this industry they told us that they have high rates because they count quality views only, and high quality views watch at least 10% of the video.
Do you know what 10% of video means?
- If your video is 10 minutes length, the viewer should only watch 1 minuets of that video.
- If the video length is 100 minutes, the viewer should only watch 10 minutes of that video?
Is it hard for your views to watch that 10%? Then your traffic is not worthy for us because I don’t know what type of viewers that opens the video and don’t play 10% of its total length. Why did he open the video in first place?
So we don’t know what you really guys want? Do you want low rates and count all views like Openload? Or do you want high rates but 10% views like high rates services such as Clipwatching? Because if you want high rates we want quality traffic as well or otherwise we won’t be able to pay you high rates.
For me, I prefer high rates and count 10% view because this is the best for users who get traffic mostly from Tier 1 countries.
As mentioned previously in this comment, if your viewers aren’t able to watch 10% of the video, this is a very huge disaster you should work to solve.
The decrease you see in your reports are the user who weren’t able to watch 10% of your videos and they were the reason why you all had low rates.
I prefer to give you all high rates for your quality traffic instead of giving you low rates for all of your traffic.
Check this for example:
http://prntscr.com/m23wd5
Vs.
http://prntscr.com/m23wh4
The same user is earning the same exact revenue but for less views, so he face decrease in views but his earnings are the same, because of the new high rates. The user profits wasn’t affected because he have quality traffic that covered the views decrease and didn’t affect his revenue. So, if your revenue was affected it means your traffic isn’t mostly high quality.
Case closed.
Anyone can say anything but no one can confirm.