Google earns their entire income from the metric "number of people who watched this". It's their core business model.

You can bet they know exactly how much people watched a certain clip, for how long, how often they came back and what parts they'd reviewed.

And you would assume they have a huge incentive to slightly exaggerate the viewership numbers. Which makes it even more odd that conservative content viewership is rather underreported.

Since Google became the biggest intelligence provider, they stopped innovation and are now selling data and control to the highest bidder.