It is just past midnight. Every ten minutes or so you anxiously hit the blue circled arrow in the Firefox toolbar. At this point the button is familiar. It looks good. You like it because every time you hit that button there is that feeling you have when the results to some important contest are announced. There is a slight delay and then the results are in and you finally get an answer to those important questions: how much channel views do I have and what is the view count on my active videos?
Channels views are special because that means that people take the time to view all of the stuff that you uploaded instead of just viewing one single video that interrests them. Those people are my fans and they are the ones who are most likely to subscribe.