High audience retention, more important than views?

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Example: If I had a video with 1k views but with 80-90% retention, comparing to a video with 10k views and less than 50% retention. Is it better in terms of ranking? Some people tell me people are more likely to click on the one with more views. Any advice or tips?
 
They both have importance.

Views bring in more views and possible income and when it comes to retention, if people watch and enjoy your videos to the end, the more chance they will want to watch more from you, and/or see the links you might be providing at the end of your videos.
 
It all plays into it. The number of likes/comments/views/retention and relevance of tag words used will all play a part. Exactly how much each is weighted I have no idea.

I don't see retention beating out views unless the views have a very very low rentention rate.. if that makes sense.
 
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It all plays into it. The number of likes/comments/views/retention and relevance of tag words used will all play a part. Exactly how much each is weighted I have no idea.

I don't see retention beating out views unless the views have a very very low rentention rate.. if that makes sense.
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Yes it does make sense. Unless they were bot views with no retention, then I still believe a video with that amount of views must have a certain degree of interest to be viewed that many times.

Thanks for your input.
 
Retention is VERY important, BUT here's something most people don't realize.

Let's take two videos:
Video A: 20 minutes long, 25% retention, so an average of 5 minutes viewing time.
Video B: 5 minutes long, 50% retention, so an average of 2.5 minutes of viewing time.

YouTube prefers video A. YouTube likes videos that people watch for longer periods of time.
 
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