Hello,
In my niche along with other typical vlogs I noticed that many many channels would put a "catchy title" and what should be only a 2 minute video is actually a 15-20 minute video with the whole subject of the video being toward the end at like the 14:00 or 18:30 mark (example) and its show brief that its ALMOST CLICKBAIT.
EXAMPLE: a 20 min video title will be "we found a pink dolphin". The video just shows random activities of the vlogger like shopping, joking around, and other irrelevant stuff for the first 17 mins, then at the 18:30 mark it will actually show a brief meeting with a pink dolphin for like 5 or 10 seconds seconds.
Now a lot of times someone in the comments will actually post the timestamp for other people to click on so they do not waste their time OR users will just skip over the useless content themselves to the timestamp they actually clicked for. Either way this manipulates users to click over 95% of the video OR they will just watch the whole thing.
When a user clicks to later in the video, the red marking of the video (at the bottom of the youtube player that the user can control of) shows the rest of the video as being watched when really the users/sucriber did not watch it (although there still are users who do in fact waste their time with the whole video from the beginning)
It seems like the video owners purposely try to get their subscribers to do this
If a user were to in fact skip over the video towards the end, does that 18 mins of a 20 min video count towards VIEW TIME??
This is very difficult question/post so please answer only if you have hard evidence. If you are interested you may also post but please do not attempt to answer if you are not sure.
In my niche along with other typical vlogs I noticed that many many channels would put a "catchy title" and what should be only a 2 minute video is actually a 15-20 minute video with the whole subject of the video being toward the end at like the 14:00 or 18:30 mark (example) and its show brief that its ALMOST CLICKBAIT.
EXAMPLE: a 20 min video title will be "we found a pink dolphin". The video just shows random activities of the vlogger like shopping, joking around, and other irrelevant stuff for the first 17 mins, then at the 18:30 mark it will actually show a brief meeting with a pink dolphin for like 5 or 10 seconds seconds.
Now a lot of times someone in the comments will actually post the timestamp for other people to click on so they do not waste their time OR users will just skip over the useless content themselves to the timestamp they actually clicked for. Either way this manipulates users to click over 95% of the video OR they will just watch the whole thing.
When a user clicks to later in the video, the red marking of the video (at the bottom of the youtube player that the user can control of) shows the rest of the video as being watched when really the users/sucriber did not watch it (although there still are users who do in fact waste their time with the whole video from the beginning)
It seems like the video owners purposely try to get their subscribers to do this
If a user were to in fact skip over the video towards the end, does that 18 mins of a 20 min video count towards VIEW TIME??
This is very difficult question/post so please answer only if you have hard evidence. If you are interested you may also post but please do not attempt to answer if you are not sure.
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