DSP YouTube Search Results Experiment -

[James Smith]

I wanted to see if DSP actually doesn't show up in search results in incognito.

• "Dragon Quest Builders 2 playthrough": first page
• "Mega Man Wily Wars playthrough": first page
• "Ghostbusters the Game Remastered playthrough": first page
• "Borderlands 3 playthrough": had to scroll and get more results once

Trough Tor he was on the first page for every search.

Is this just me?

 

[The Last Stand]

Likely because of how he titles his videos and the fact that he spams videos makes the algorithm content to post the most "popular". YouTube loves filler.

 

[TheKatIsNowGone]

So when I searched for "Dragon Quest Builders 2 playthrough" on Opera's private mode a DSP video came up after scrolling down to get more results twice (and of note there were two of his videos in that third page), but it was still wedged between a collection of videos with considerably higher views than it. In fact his videos have the lowest views of all the videos in the search so far.

• Wily Wars was first page (lowest views again, barely getting beat out by some random named "doctormario4600" who only has 3k views)
• Ghostbusters remake was first page (part 1 in his playthrough is in the results so for once his video doesn't have the lowest views... Except part 5 also showed up and it's only got 1k making it the lowest views on page 1)
• Borderlands 3 was second page (part 1 again so Phil is saved from having the lowest views on the page, but not by a lot and still one of the lowest view counts)

Fun little experiment, really shows that it's not Youtube fucking DSP out of views, people just don't want to watch him. He's still just as good at spamming and abusing the algorithm. He did nothing wrong, he did everything correct.