Does youtube api play function trigger a view count?
youtube, youtube-api, youtube-javascript-api
Solution
No. Playbacks started with the javascript API do not count, nor do any other views which are initiated by software (auto playing, iframing the page, playlist player, chromeless player api, etc).
YouTube Developer Relations response: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/youtube-api-gdata/7SsbvOJMWL0/rBCBqnFaxRgJ
Problem
I know that embedding a video with autoplay will NOT increment video count. My question is, playing the video from javascript, with the youtube api, does it trigger incrementing video count?