Because people are talking about "inactive subs"

[wasabiroots]

I know what you mean, but there are chances that if my or your content was to be shared on an outside platform, it will skew the numbers significantly towards non-subscribers.

For example, one of my videos (skinny fat) was a 24-hour feature on Lifehacker. That brought in huge amounts of non-subscriber views to my video. Let's look at the numbers for the video's lifetime:
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Now let's look at a video (bulking) that was released not too long after that and has not been featured elsewhere and shared exclusively on the YT platform (either suggestions, subscriber page, search, etc):
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As you can see, it's a complete flip when the video is shared versus not shared. 90% of my views came from non-subscribers on the video that was shared on Lifehacker and 80% of my views came from subscribers on the video that was not shared. This is what I meant by skewed numbers.

Well, we could argue that the total views per sub could be redundant as well if anything because what we want is mostly views.

Anyways, looking at that data you gave, how long has each of the videos been on youtube for? Just curious. Would it, after some time, stabilise to the average or would it stay that way? I looked into a few of my videos, some are in the average % stated there and some are definitely skewed, so its not that far off. At least for now since I don't have a real viral video yet.

I think you'd be satisfied if we go for the modal % rather than the mean % because of the possible skew. But no one is going to go and collect the data for each one of their videos haha~ Its easier to get an average.[DOUBLEPOST=1466710259,1466710082][/DOUBLEPOST]

beat this terrible ratio!

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Ayy~~

 

[PictureFIT]

Well, we could argue that the total views per sub could be redundant as well if anything because what we want is mostly views.

That's why I suggested the other approach of sub views over sub count in first 48 hours or week. That's as accurate as I can possibly figure out based on what YT provides analytically.

Anyways, looking at that data you gave, how long has each of the videos been on youtube for? Just curious.

Skinny fat has been up for 4 weeks, Bulking up for a little over 2 weeks. I doubt it will taper off to a similar average anytime soon.

I think you'd be satisfied if we go for the modal % rather than the mean % because of the possible skew. But no one is going to go and collect the data for each one of their videos haha~ Its easier to get an average.

Well, that's the thing. Everyone wants to look at statistics to understand viewer engagement but won't do the work to figure that out. It's fine to look at the "big picture," but you have to take into account all the outliers that come with it.

 

[PositivelyBrainwashed]

I have a video that isn't making sense to me

It says I only got 38 (36 + 2) views from subscribers in this video, but I know I got over 72 new subscribers from this video. Can anyone explain?

But following Picture Fit's formula, I'm ranging around 7%-12% subscribers watching each video

Edit: oh I'm an idiot. They weren't subscribed when they watched it

 

[wasabiroots]

Well, that's the thing. Everyone wants to look at statistics to understand viewer engagement but won't do the work to figure that out. It's fine to look at the "big picture," but you have to take into account all the outliers that come with it.

Nah I just look at the statistics for fun. I gave up looking at the statistics to find anything significant from it that can be used for improvements other than traffic sources, view duration, amount of likes, comments and the speed at which the video gets views. Everything else is just interesting to see and understand.

This one is just to see the % subscriber views to % non subscriber views.

Edit: and to see what everyone else is having. XD

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I have a video that isn't making sense to me

It says I only got 38 (36 + 2) views from subscribers in this video, but I know I got over 72 new subscribers from this video. Can anyone explain?

Edit: oh I'm an idiot. They weren't subscribed when they watched it

LOL! I was just about to ask "would they be counted as subscribed views or not if they subscribed after watching it?" This answers everything lol