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Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. Filed under: Web Tech YouTube. YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts New, 69 comments. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email.

Image: YouTube. Next Up In Tech. The experiment confirmed this was true — creators with smaller channels were targeted with dislike attacks more than larger creators were. YouTube declined to share the specific details or the data collected through those experiments when TechCrunch asked, however. This is the design the company has now settled on, which is less of a disruptive change to the row of engagement buttons beneath a video.

Image Credits: YouTube. YouTube staff make it clear that the number of likes -- or "thumbs-up" -- a video has partially determines its ranking, according to YouTube Analytics. So if you post videos to YouTube, then the number of YouTube likes you have could be what determines whether you or your competitors appear more prominently in YouTube search results.

Underneath all YouTube videos are two buttons -- a "thumbs-down" and a "thumbs-up" button. The thumbs-up button is also tagged with the word "Like" and works basically the way the "Like" button does on a Facebook page. When anyone clicks one of those buttons, it's tabulated into a count next to one of two smaller thumb icons, also underneath the video. This way, you can get a quick snapshot of how people in general are reacting to a particular video.

Out of all the ways that a video can rank highly in YouTube's video listings, the number of times someone likes a video is mostly out of your control.

However, you can increase the likelihood that someone will like your video by directly requesting each viewer to do so.