AFAIK any interaction counts as a plus for the video. Comments, likes, comment likes, subscribes, dislikes, sharing, etc.
Basically youtube’s goal is to make you as engaged with the app as possible. So if a video is causing high engagement, they will promote it more than videos that have low engagement.
It’s all really just complicated statistics handled by machine learning algorithms designed to keep people on the app as long as possible.
The op said likes for YouTube comments. Does that also count toward pushing the video?
AFAIK any interaction counts as a plus for the video. Comments, likes, comment likes, subscribes, dislikes, sharing, etc.
Basically youtube’s goal is to make you as engaged with the app as possible. So if a video is causing high engagement, they will promote it more than videos that have low engagement.
It’s all really just complicated statistics handled by machine learning algorithms designed to keep people on the app as long as possible.