Your YouTube video views are about to skyrocket. Heres why.

Your YouTube videos are about to get a lot more views.

At least, that's what it'll appear like on the YouTube video view count.

On Monday, YouTube announced that it was changing how it counts video views on the platform.

According to YouTube, starting on Aug.

24, the platform will start counting a view on a video from the moment it starts to play – or as YouTube puts it, "from the very first frame." The company says the change will bring the way it counts views on long-form videos in line with its method for YouTube Shorts.

Since March 2025, YouTube has counted a Shorts view from the moment the video begins playing. (YouTube Shorts are videos up to three minutes long that use a vertical or square format.) This Tweet is currently unavailable.

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This is a big change from how YouTube previously counted a view on a long-form video.

Until Aug.

24, a view on long-form content will be counted only if a viewer watches at least 30 seconds of the video.

Viewers who watch less than that won't be included in the video's view counter.

That threshold, however, has provided creators with useful data about how many people were actually watching their videos.

While the view count change will mean videos will look like they're receiving more views from before, YouTube appears to recognize that its previous metric remains useful to creators.

The company announced it will continue counting the original view metric as "Engaged views" in creators' YouTube Analytics under Advanced Mode.