Alex Kosinski running video has 7.3 million views! (former university of oregon runner)

dnumup wrote:

Alex Kosinski's adidas running video has 7.3 million views!

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRyI65faeE

Point number 1: Alex who?

Point number 2: The above is probably not even close to the reaction from most of the apparent 7.3 millions viewers.

Point number 3: To the uninformed, Kosinski is just another generic Adidas gym-girl model probably doing some Tabata sprints before chugging a kale shake and heading over to hot yoga in those flashy tights.

Conclusion: Adidas has churned out yet another great ad for their bottom line that is consistently enforced by hobby-joggers, fashionistas, crossfit chicks, etc. Kosinski is merely a token nod to running as a competitive-athletic endeavor.

As a professional youtuber I can tell you that those views aren't exactly fake, but they're not organic, either. Any time you see an advertisement on youtube, it is being hosted as a youtube video somewhere on the site. And when you pay so that people see the ad, those views accrue on the video.

So that's why this video has so many views and so few comments/likes – the views are all because the video is an ad, and was used as an ad on youtube, and just like any other ad, you pay to get your ad viewed!

I'll bet at least 7 of that 7.3 were hoping she'd do some bathing suit modeling in that video

dnumup wrote:

spam bots getting more views on youtube? impossible. Google monetized youtube through algorithms and security systems so people cant do that

Yeah, right.

Google promotes who and what they want to. Some of what you see in terms of views is honest, some of it is bunk. If you are something "PC" they can promote for certain areas of social conditioning, you'll get "views".

youtube expert wrote:

As a professional youtuber I can tell you that those views aren't exactly fake, but they're not organic, either. Any time you see an advertisement on youtube, it is being hosted as a youtube video somewhere on the site. And when you pay so that people see the ad, those views accrue on the video.

So that's why this video has so many views and so few comments/likes – the views are all because the video is an ad, and was used as an ad on youtube, and just like any other ad, you pay to get your ad viewed!

Correct, they are legitimate "views" but not organic and were definitely paid for by Adidas. Assuming a cost of $0.05 per view, Adidas probably spent about $350K promoting it on YouTube.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

I'm not one to praise advertising too much, but that was a pretty good commercial. I might have tried to hurdle something a little bigger than a luggage cart though.

I thought the ad, cinematography-wise was terrible and unoriginal.

What'd you like best? The gratuitous surfing shot or the gratuitous race cars?

What does running have to do with surfing?

And promoting running in traffic listening to music with ear buds on? WTF!? Irresponsible for a shoe maker.

While looking up other pictures of AK, I stumbled upon another attractive Oregon athlete from the past:

Bronwyn Crossman

http://www.shannondigitalimaging.com/proofs/pepsi_team_invitational_2011/pictures/picture-14.jpg

dnumup wrote:

Alex Kosinski's adidas running video has 7.3 million views!

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRyI65faeE

I work in digital media. I can confirm it's quite easy and quite common to buy traffic and social media likes/follows/retweets/views. This is a commercial. There is zero question in my mind that at least a portion of those views are purchased.

I don't see how it is possible that the 7.3 million view total is genuine. What possible reason could there be for people independently looking at that video? There's nothing to it, other than the horror show of tights she's wearing.

thanks.

Why would a company pay 350k for "views"? I don't see the logic there.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the idiotic running in place while waiting at the traffic light.

And I agree that it was incredibly uninspiring. Jamie Dornan running in The Fall or Fassbender running in that movie where he's a sexual deviant are far more evocative running moments.

The Donger wrote:

Why would a company pay 350k for "views"? I don't see the logic there.

Do you need some one to explain how advertisement works?

yarbles wrote:

I can't believe no one has mentioned the idiotic running in place while waiting at the traffic light.

LOL! Total Hobby jogger move:

Does this mean that Alex Kosinski is now a hobbyjogger?

The shame!

She needs to become a swimsuit model instead.

Please.

callmegizasmile wrote:

Does this mean that Alex Kosinski is now a hobbyjogger?

The shame!

She needs to become a swimsuit model instead.

Please.

+1

chainsaw bob wrote: Suzy Favor's Nike commercial remains my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljItuZevzRQ

Little did the guy in the hockey mask know...all he had to do was throw $600 at Suzy and she would have stopped running away.

[quote]AKgotnothingonBC wrote:

While looking up other pictures of AK, I stumbled upon another attractive Oregon athlete from the past:

Bronwyn Crossman

Used to know Bronwyn. She's very nice

That video was awful. It looks like a high school class project.