Maybe (probably) a stupid question...

Jenna no manga

Jenna no manga

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Hello,

Can someone tell me what is watch time? What is this for? Why do guru say it is so important?

I looked at the graph it had a spiked to 9 hours.

Does this mean nine hours worth of videos were watch that day?

Thanks.
 
Jenna no manga said:
Hello,

Can someone tell me what is watch time? What is this for? Why do guru say it is so important?

I looked at the graph it had a spiked to 9 hours.

Does this mean nine hours worth of videos were watch that day?

Thanks.
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Watch time is literally how much time someone has watched your video/s for, so if you have a 3 minuet video and someone watches all of it, you get +3 minuets to your watch time, and depending on what specific time frame you choose for your analytics page it can show for the week, month, year ect
Thats one reason that vloggers are good at the moment, since a 15 minuet video that someone watches all of is 15 minuets worth of watch time per view!
 
I think I understood you can have 200 views but your video is one minute so it is 200 minutes watch time or 100 views and the video is 20 minutes (vlog) and you get 2000 minutes watchtime?

I wonder why they changed it and what is good for youtube in this... i felt that views equal more potential ads, but watchtime is linked to youtube even though the viewer paid already?
 
The reason watch time is important is because it gives advertisers a much more in depth analysis on videos. It used to be all about views. The problem with views is they just give you a figure and that's it. So yeah a 20 minute video might have 1 million views, but what if those viewers are only watching the first 20 seconds, get bored and click off. Still counts as a views but doesn't mean much to anyone if they're not watching the rest of it.

Watchtime means you can see how much of a video someone is watching, where people drop off etc. It means advertisers can see what engages people and also helps you improve your content. Overall watchtime is king, because it says to youtube that the more watch time you accrue, the more engaged your audience is and clearly like your videos. Youtube will promote channels more if they have increasing watch time.
 
I see . So it is more about Youtube than advertisers.

I was wondering if when you click through a video it counts the time as I tend to click through videos that are a bit long...
 
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