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This full page discusses web movie view totals.
Partially, it introduces the superb website called TikTok.

Facts you see here by means of numbers are adequate to make a point, but for precision is inaccurate. Nonetheless, exact data is not necessary to understand the verbal illustration.

A) 10 people are visitors to a website, and on it are 10 web movies that exist to watch.
If each of the 10 visitors watch the 10 movies, that equals 100 movie views:
10 visitors x 10 movies = 100 movie views.
A few of the 10 persons (like myself) would watch any movie twice over a length of hours or days. (It loops, but I'd revisit past movies.)
Results show the total is 130 movie views. If there are 130 movie views, did 130 people watch the movies?

B) Hypothetically, say you read there are approx. 1 billion movie views on the TikTok site for a product and movie, from an outside info source.
Despite that, you go to the site, then quickly skim it to reveal the highest number of movie views is around 4 million on the product's huge launch day. Also, the average of the highest movie views is 600k and 200k views for 2 sites - the product we're querying and candy sites.
The question is since all movies have a limit of 4 million, how does any one movie reach 1 billion? Likely it doesn't. ( I couldn't find it.)
We'll return to Example A. We'd predict the number are of single users who view multiple movies (may come from a variety of sources) and multiple times.

C) Hypothetically, if you had 3 million people, who watched 200 movies from a couple of TikTok addresses, and half the movies over weeks were watched more than once:
3,000,000 people x 350 views (200 single views + 150 extra views from half)
= 1.05 billion movie views.
1 billion views have turned into 3 million viewers.

D) Of course there are the costs of advertisements, promotion, packaging, employees, shipping, insurance, taxes, trademarks, website, etc.. Next, we might guess from 3 million not all the onlookers make a purchase. The real number of customers is perhaps half or could even be a fraction of the onlookers.

E) Remember, the "likes" include additional product types that span 1.5 years ago. The product type we're interested in started some months ago.

I'll reserve time later to check many of her videos. It looks like she did a fantastic job.
Please enjoy your Christmas season. Tootles.

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-- December 4, 2023, 11:59pm EDT
~Update: December 5, 8am EDT