What does watch time on YouTube mean?

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Watch time (or audience retention, as it’s popularly called in YouTube analytics) is the total amount of time in aggregate that viewers spend watching your videos. With a boost in watch time, YouTube is more likely to promote your channel through search and recommended videos, which in turn leads to more views.

How are watch hours counted on YouTube?

When you delete content, YouTube deducts the Watch Time from your monetizable total. For example, imagine your channel has 2,000 watch hours. If you delete a video that contributed 500 of those hours, you’ll be left with 1,500. Before you delete anything, check to see how many watch hours your content has earned.

Does YouTube count watch time?

If you skip through a video but the total time you spend watching is more than 30 seconds, the view will count too. If you watch for less than 30 seconds, it probably won’t.

What is a good watch time?

For most videos, an average view duration in the 70-80\% range is performing well. Anything above that is a very well constructed video.

Is views or watch time more important?

Views represent clicks, or visits, but they don’t tell you for how long somebody is on the YouTube platform or on the mobile app. The more Watch Time YouTube has from its audience, the more ads they can sell to the audience, making more money for YouTube, and more money for the video creator.

How are watch hours calculated?

The math is simple. One hour equals 60 minutes, so all we have to do is multiply both numbers. 4000 hours x 60 minutes = 240,000 minutes! To get to 4000 hours of YouTube watch time, you have to generate 240,000 minutes of YouTube watch time.

What are the best things to watch on YouTube?

Watching the best things depend upon the field you are interested in, be it entertainment (movies, series, songs, funny videos etc), singing lessons, sketching lessons, origami, dancing steps, beauty tips, and so on…. YouTube is huge and wide platform to entertain yourself and learn.

What are the most watched YouTube videos of all time?

The most watched YouTube video of all time is the Korean rapper’s viral smash Gangnam Style – it’s been watched an astonishing 2.3 billion times since it was uploaded in July 2012.

What is a world time watch?

World Time Watches. A world time watch displays or calculates the time in multiple time zones, usually 24, sometimes all 39 time zones. They are useful for the frequent traveler and indispensable for the international business executive.