What percentage of your subscribers actually watch your videos?

JustSomeGermanDude said:
And that's why subscribers are important. Their retention is higher than the retention of random viewers. And they watch videos in the first couple of days after upload, those are the most important days. For the first week videos get ranked mainly by tags and such, retention/watch time comes into play after the first week has passed.
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Yeah, this is how I see it too. Their views get my retention up over a big enough sample for YT to take notice and start promoting the vid.
 
I'm sitting on around 2500 subscribers, but I'd estimate around 1000 or slightly less are still active (took a long break). I'm doing mostly Let's Plays at the moment, and those are averaging 50-100 views. My commentaries do a bit better, which often hit 100-300 views. So depending on the content, probably averaging 5%-15%. But it's hard to say, given a lot of my subscribers are dead at the moment.
 
I have a little more than 1.3k subs, and my videos average 200-400 views each.

Dunno if that's good or bad, but it's better than what it used to be haha
 
Thanks, guys, this is good stuff! Looking at my stats, my average view duration is close to 4 minutes, which is actually high considering that I have a lot of animated videos that are only 1 minute long to begin with. I dug a little deeper and you can pull up "relative audience attention" at the single video level (but not channel level) but I'm not sure what it's relative to--all other videos on YouTube? Anyway, here's a graph of one of my videos that gets suggested a lot, and it seems to have above average to high retention, so the evidence bears out what you're saying! (I'm still feeling like a newbie for just discovering this site, but I'm learning lots!)
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I remember seeing that only 30% of viewers are signed in when watching videos, so it's going to be impossible to tell how many of your subscribers are watching until YouTube formally unveils the active subscribers option in analytics.
 
I have a slightly bigger channel than most (toptenznet), but my numbers are about the same. I just checked some of my videos that are one month old and the subscriber viewership is about 6-10% on each after one month. We have 277k subs (Sept. 1, 2016) and average about 600-1,000 new subs per day. Sadly it seems as if YT is not showing your vids as much as you would hope.
 
In the last 28 days, my sub viewership makes up a tad over 2% of all the views x'D Though given that I have tutorial videos, it makes quite a bit of sense. Doubt my subs want to watch the same tutorial over and over, haha.
 
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