And spk, whose real name has been redacted upon his request, is listed on the Google Hall of Fame security site. YouTube declined to commment on spk’s claims of employment or botting, but a company representative did confirm that spk received a large monetary sum from Google for identifying a security risk. “I had to sit there and bot videos with millions and millions” of views, which he claims he did for “more than 20,000 videos.” In 2009, spk stated, he quit to start his own botting business, which he says currently employs 15 people, including the notorious botting reseller Tapangoldy. “I am doing nothing different, only working for myself now,” spk said. In a Skype chat with ReadWrite, spk alleged he was originally hired as a coding and system maintenance employee for YouTube in 2007, but in 2009 was told to bot VEVO videos. His original views bot was so successful, spk claims, that Google approached him and asked him to bot videos for VEVO back when the music conglomerate first started putting content on YouTube. Spk claims to have a sprawling empire of bots that inflate views on various video games such as Diablo 3 and social media services including Twitter and reddit, but he got his start on YouTube. Since the purging of botted views began this month, a man who goes by the alias of “spk” and claims to be a former YouTube employee has come forward to claim he was paid to bot videos for VEVO. This allegation is particularly controversial, as it comes on the heels of Google investing in a minority stake in VEVO. Spk Claims YouTube Paid Him To Inflate Views
Botting is the practice of artificially increasing a video’s views on YouTube using automated “bots” – a practice that began in December of last year. The removal of the views appears to be part of a broad clean up of “botted” views. Last week, when YouTube thought no one was looking, it apparently removed 156 million views from Lady Gaga’s VEVO channel.
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