Low audience retention?

[Hazzador]

I have a average audience retention of 53%, which i think is pretty low. Is this a normal retention for a channel of my size, or should I be hitting bigger numbers?

 

[wasabiroots]

How much is your 53% in minutes?

I think it depends still tho like, 50% with avg view duration of 3 minutes is better than 50% with avg view duration of 1:30 minutes. I somehow look more at duration now rather than percentages to be honest.

Anyways... I don't know if its good or bad but mine somewhat stabilizes around 50% (as shown below) and my channel seems to be doing alright for now:

As you can see, when I was your channel size, I was getting around the same percentages. I guess if we want to grow faster, the percentages should stay above 80% maybe?

 

[Hazzador]

How much is your 53% in minutes?

I think it depends still tho like, 50% with avg view duration of 3 minutes is better than 50% with avg view duration of 1:30 minutes. I somehow look more at duration now rather than percentages to be honest.

Anyways... I don't know if its good or bad but mine somewhat stabilizes around 50% (as shown below) and my channel seems to be doing alright for now:
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As you can see, when I was your channel size, I was getting around the same percentages. I guess if we want to grow faster, the percentages should stay above 80% maybe?

I can see avg view duration for separate videos, but how to do I see it for like all videos? But yeah view duration is more important than audience retention

 

[wasabiroots]

I can see avg view duration for separate videos, but how to do I see it for like all videos?

What do you mean?

 

[subversiveasset]

In your analytics, on the page for Audience Retention, you should see near the top of that page "average percentage viewed" and "average view duration". Average view duration should be the average watch time in minutes/second compared to all of your videos.

I think the issue is that if your videos can have very different lengths, then this number may not be as meaningful as the per-video figure.

I dunno though...i think 53% retention is not that bad...

 

[Aegislasher]

that's better than mine I'm only at 10%

 

[Razvion]

I just checked mine also,
AVERAGE VIEW DURATION
2:41
But the
AVERAGE PERCENTAGE VIEWED
19%
I`m still trying to figure out what those number means haha.

 

[subversiveasset]

I just checked mine also,
AVERAGE VIEW DURATION
2:41
But the
AVERAGE PERCENTAGE VIEWED
19%
I`m still trying to figure out what those number means haha.

This means that of all of your videos watched for whatever time period you have, your retention is only around 20%...on average, people only watch 20% of your video.

In terms of minutes and seconds, this is 2:41. So, basically the average "video" that people are watching on your channel is around 14 minutes, and people are watching around 2:41 of that, or 20%. (if I did the math correctly...darn seconds!)

 

[CrazyPUA]

Mine is really bad, It's a 59 % with an average of 1 minute 10 seconds and that's only because one video has 85%.

 

[Kate's Adventures]

I just checked mine also,
AVERAGE VIEW DURATION
2:41
But the
AVERAGE PERCENTAGE VIEWED
19%
I`m still trying to figure out what those number means haha.

The average time someone watches your videos for is 2:41 and the average amount of the video they watch is 19%. That looks like a low figure given your recent videos but I think your 40 minute videos have pulled down this statistic.