retention rate

  1. S

    Did I mess up my channel with poor retention rates?

    Hey everybody, just looking for a little piece of advice. I started a gaming channel a few months ago. Had pretty decent views depending on the topic, from 5 to a few hundred. Then I posted a clip of the johnny depp trial. This got 400,000 views and at first I was over the moon, I put the end...
  2. J

    Extremely Low Retention

    Hi there, I started a YouTube channel just over a month ago. I've been uploading about 2-3 videos each week. I was looking at the retention stats and have noticed the average retention for my channel is about 30%. Some videos have retention rates as low as even 2%. I've spent some money...
  3. M

    How can I increase my vlogs' audience retention?

    I make vlogs and mix the style of normal vlogs and cinematic b-roll. Sort of like peter mckinnon but not copying him. Anyway, I have a channel average of 1 minute retention and I feel that is sub-par. How can I increase it. I have watched plenty of audience retention videos but they all talk...
  4. PromiseM

    Short video & high retention OR long video & low retention

    The title of this post is pretty self explanatory. The average retention rate for my channel is 65%. I have the impression that's a decent number. My videos average between 2 and 3 minutes. I wonder if it makes sense to go with longer videos for the sake of advertising and watch time. But I...
  5. O

    How can a video with great feedback in comments have poor audience retention?

    I don't get how this is possible. I have a few videos where people have commented telling me they enjoyed the whole video. this about 100 or so people that have commented this. The videos which they enjoyed have an audience retention rate below 20 percent. I don't understand how this is...
  6. Tac0cann0n

    The First 10 Seconds Are The Most Important, Right?

    I hear that 'the first ten seconds of the video are the most important' quite a bit when I ask questions about audience retention. My question is, what are some of the techniques that you all use to keep people engaged? I don't really like the concept of having an intro, not only since I feel...
  7. Tac0cann0n

    Active subscribers?

    Hey guys, I have a few questions for you all. My channel (as of right now) has 79 subscribers. I'm happy with this, and every few days or weeks a gain a few subscribers. For the most part, they are random, since I don't really like posting my channel everywhere for advertisement. I just want...
  8. iamvroom

    So, how long are your gameplay videos?

    Was looking at the audience retention graph of one of my videos and saw this (picture below). Apart from the fact that the introduction of the particular video used for the graph is really bad (hence the sharp dropoff at the beginning) the things that strikes me the most is the falloff around...
  9. JMGD

    Old Videos on Channel Killing Retention Stats... Delete or Keep?

    Hi all, I started my channel in 2010, but only started getting serious about YouTube in 2014. A couple of my older videos are quite long (~15 mins) and attract some of the highest views stats on the channel, but the retention rates are awful... Most of my videos are in the 50-70% retention...
  10. FamilyToyReview

    What to do about other youtubers spamming your video?

    Hello, I have a toy unboxing channel. Most of the comments and interaction we receive from the community are from other youtubers with similar unboxing channels. I've noticed some are kind of spammy. There's a couple of youtubers who will usually leave a vague "good job" comment as soon as I...