It's not necessarily bots. They could just be buying views with ads.

Their COO pretended to work for YouTube. After something like that, you lose the benefit of the doubt.

I'm surprised YouTube doesn't crack down on this. On the other hand, they might have just asked for a closer inspection.

I bet placing an advert as a pre-roll counts towards a YouTube video's view count. That would explain the format of the last video — a brief teaser for that 5-second countdown.

I bet Ozy has next-to-zero organic traffic to any of its properties.

YouTube doesn't crack down on anything unless they positively, absolutely have to in order to avoid a full-scale scandal.