Have some weird traffic patterns on our company's YouTube channel that I'm wondering if it looks familiar to anyone.
The majority of our videos recently get a few hundred "views" within a few days of publishing. The views drop off almost immediately after this.
Thing is it seems like bot traffic. Average view duration is just a few seconds, most come from External traffic source, and weirdest of all, every video is dominated by Middle Eastern / North Africa locations. Iraq #1, Egypt #2, then a collection of others, Syria, Algeria, etc. (definitely not our target audience btw).
For more context, we have a guy who does our videos for us. External agency kind of thing, he creates + uploads them.
Pretty clear it's a bot thing, or some other kind of view inflation... but wondering why this is happening? Just don't understand how/why we'd be so consistently inundated with these fake views.