Originally Posted by rayc
Regarding the algs...a recent track I did had 10x as many plays as usual. it was YuTub recommending it for play through various means. Ads were attached and YT pumped it until it got close to the point where they'd have to pay me a share of the revenue and then they dropped the song. It happens all the time - cynical and misleading but it's how a "free" service stays free I suppose.
Sweet little tune.

It was 2 years ago I had another instrumental just take off on YT views from the start - it was my most viewed video ever until I did a remix earlier this year and lost all of those views - but I never had any advertising on it. It's the same for the video I made for Francis Lai's "Promenade": over 4,000 views and never once seen an add before it starts.

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.