Watching Own Videos Increase Watch Time?

[WilBajamas]

I googled this question and I cant seem to find anything.
So it is as the title states, does watching your own Youtube videos increase the watch time for that video?

Hope you guys will let me know ^^

 

[Sabrina]

I've noticed that my own views, watch time and audience retention are counted in Analytics (why, YouTube, why?? )
But who knows, YT might subtract those numbers when determining your videos rankings.

 

[DeathByVlog]

If you are logged in Youtube will display those views in Realtime Analytics, but they won't be added to your view count as YouTube knows it's you. If by some chance your count does go up because of those logged in views, you can be sure that YouTube will eventually remove them.

 

[WeiseGamer]

I'm sure it does, but one person isn't going to suddenly make you rank first page. It's a collective thing too, so I mean, if you started a year ago and watch every video to full 100% that is 365 views and 100% on those views (lets say you did a video a day).

However, what about the other views you get? What if your normal retention is 20% and you get 9,035 views in a year (that number makes easy math for me).

Total Views at 20% = 9,035
Total Views at 100% = 365

90% of your viewers only watch 20% at that point, does that make sense?

Basically what I'm saying is your one view isn't going to sway an average enough to get you ranked. That being said, I have two accounts and always like and watch my own videos 100% through, but that is more of a QA thing where I make sure it played back well when its scheduled, then when its live I check on my other account and make sure annotations and stuff all worked.

 

[AmberAndGolden]

I think they might, Which in my opinion is really stupid, Since I always go back and watch my old videos (like a weirdo) so I don't want it to mess with my actual analytic..

 

[Dweros]

Its bothers me it counts a view when editing and adding annotations. From my understanding it removes false views around the time a video gets 300+ views on it. I noticed losing views around that point on one of my channels

 

[AuthorFilms Studios]

I wouldn't reccomend doing it as it makes your analytics appear different in different locations. Say I watched my video 50 times and it gets 100 real views (150 views in total):

Analytics Page: 150 views (It counts your own views)
Watch Page: 100-150 Views (It counts only some of your views)
Channel Page: ??? Views (Depends)
Suggestions Bar: 100 Views (It doesnt count your views)

Basically it will never be completely accurate.
(The above is only an example)