In summary, they trawled the web for more than "30 million unique videos", created an HTML page for each one, and submitted them to search engines. And that resulted in 1 million pageviews.
Isn't that just a spammy linkfarm? It might work in the short term, but I don't think Google like that sort of thing so it won't work when they notice.
I think you wanted to say "content farm" like all those sites that use wikipedia text.
I don't think their app is spam though, or a content farm.
I can see how a video page[1] could be a "temporary" page to discuss some content away from the madness of youtube comments. Do you think google will object to such "mass embedding" of youtube videos?
Isn't that just a spammy linkfarm? It might work in the short term, but I don't think Google like that sort of thing so it won't work when they notice.