New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- YouTube has decided to change its way of counting public views across its platform.

Although the Google-owned platform never disclosed how it previously counted views, it was generally understood that a view was counted after a user watched at least 30 seconds of a video, as per TechCrunch.

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

"Historically, we've used multiple view counting systems across different formats," the company wrote in a YouTube Community post. "However, we've heard that creators want to eliminate this metric confusion and accurately understand their true exposure, which is why we're making this update."

The change will be implemented from ...