The Importance of View Counts in Video Marketing

If youtube took away view counts and all the stats they would still have access to these numbers which i imagine they probably would have to for various business. I think a lot of people would be less likely to start smaller and weird podcasts if those numbers had to be public last summer at VidCon  i was really trying to push this hard on a couple of youtube engineers who were like now this is never going to happen in a million years" "It's just because when the information is private the natural state is to not share those things"