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  •   over 3 years ago

Only 2 Video Views During Judging Period

I noticed after viewing my YouTube analytics that my submission video has only had 2 views during the period where the judges were reviewing submissions. I see that there are at least 13 judges listed for this hackathon, so I wanted to respectfully make sure that all submissions have been considered and each video viewed.

My submission may have been unavailable for a brief period when the system erroneously flagged my account (this has since been addressed), but just wanted to kindly make sure that all videos have been watched and considered. My project in particular didn't get approved (although it was submitted) to the Skills store due to it having some experimental emergency features, so it is imperative that the video be watched in order to understand the skill's full functionality. Thanks for your time.

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  •   •   over 3 years ago

    I've asked this question in past hackathons. The answer I got before was that a snapshot of the project page and a copy of your video are placed in the judges' evaluation platform. That way you can still edit your project, but the judges only see what the state of the submission was at the deadline. For videos, depending on your Youtube or Vimeo subscription level, you can UPDATE a video at the same URL. This keeps a contestant from editing their video after the deadline and updating it on Vimeo/Youtube (because the date stays the same on those platforms of the original upload). I don't know if this is accurate or still true, it's just the info I got a few years ago.

    However, video views triggered from the devpost project page hit your analytics. I know I looked at your video in the past from the project page, so I would be one of your views.

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