Is there any way to know competitor's watch time?

[perrolococz]

I'm making a video on how Youtube Algorithm is a POS and purely based on luck (Or methods I'm privy to) and would like to know if there's any way to know competitor's watch time (As in the average time a certain video is watched)

 

[Deleted member 657006]

session recording .

heatmaps , there a service in the misc.

it like google tracking but you see what they did live from a session set in there browser .

 

[Deleted member 657006]

if your any good at programming you can set a cookie for every visit and time the session started and ended.

end mean left your website/ page.

 

[perrolococz]

@redarrow Thanks for the quick reply
Gonna check those out

 

[perrolococz]

@redarrow nope haha I'm a noob, dont even use blackhat or whitehat methods.. Maybe my competitors are using them.. Who knows..
Anyway, gonna check for heatmaps.

Again, this is for competitors right? Like this will work for analysing the average watch time for a youtbe channel that is not mine?

 

[Deleted member 657006]

you can improve on this but it will show session time of a ip

$interval = 2; //$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); // now is the current time and you have to ensure the format to be as                                                 // the start_time format $start_time = $_SESSION[‘start_time’]; $remain = 2 - ($now- $start_time); echo $remain; // to return the value

 

[perrolococz]

@redarrow sent you a pm

 

[Cyberars]

I'm making a video on how Youtube Algorithm is a POS and purely based on luck (Or methods I'm privy to) and would like to know if there's any way to know competitor's watch time (As in the average time a certain video is watched)

No you can't tell the watch time of a YouTube video that isn't yours, only channel owner can access his own average retention rate data.

 

[thevideoguy]

I'm making a video on how Youtube Algorithm is a POS and purely based on luck (Or methods I'm privy to) and would like to know if there's any way to know competitor's watch time (As in the average time a certain video is watched)

There isn't any way to know a competitors watch time.

I know this wasn't your question but I want to comment on your first statement. Ranking videos in search results is not purely based on luck, nor is getting a large amount of suggested traffic. There's some guess work and luck involved, but strategy is a major part of it.

Newbies often have trouble ranking videos because they target saturated niches/keywords, don't optimize metadata well, don't boost metrics well, don't optimizing video titles and thumbnails for click through rate, try to rank low quality videos, etc.

Most experienced blackhat YouTube marketers can rank videos in a top position for pretty much any keyword. These experts are not just lucky people, I will tell you that much.

 

[perrolococz]

@thevideoguy
I'm a complete noob when it comes to this, and will probably never undestand these methods fully, but I just want to know what does "ranking" really mean?
Does ranking mean that youtube will promote this video more? (Make more impressions) or it just means that the video will be in the first couple of results for a certain keyword or phrase?

 

[Gogol]

if your any good at programming you can set a cookie for every visit and time the session started and ended.

end mean left your website/ page.

you can improve on this but it will show session time of a ip

$interval = 2; //$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); // now is the current time and you have to ensure the format to be as                                                 // the start_time format $start_time = $_SESSION[‘start_time’]; $remain = 2 - ($now- $start_time); echo $remain; // to return the value

What? How do you run your php code in youtube? LOL

 

[Mediawiz]

What? How do you run your php code in youtube? LOL

Seems he talks about websites and not Youtube like OP mentioned.

 

[Gogol]

Seems he talks about websites and not Youtube like OP mentioned.

I need whatever he is smoking

On topic: OP you can't really do this afaik. Not sure why you need it but you have to look for some other way.

 

[Mediawiz]

I need whatever he is smoking

I guess he miss some details sometimes because @redarrow has bad eyesight / is blind and depends on software for text (do I remember this right?)

 

[Gogol]

I guess he miss some details sometimes because @redarrow has bad eyesight / is blind and depends on software for text (do I remember this right?)

Okay, then he should be more careful with the replies I think. This is a lame excuse lol.

 

[tubeboost]

YT doesn't reveal stats.

 

[socialmediapro]

You cant do that but there's a way and its not always gonna work but maybe you can mail your competitor about buying his channel and if he get into it then you can ask for stats and other things that you want.