I cry myself to sleep at night...

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The title is textbook hyperbole, but I enjoy looking at my stats to see things like audience retention - whether they're clicking away at certain points, seeing what get people to share/comment/etc...

But blargh, it's hard when all those graphs look like this:
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Stupid statistics.
 
My retention is really though, but because I'm a smaller channel, I think it might be because of me checking up on comments and such can really drag it down.

Unless youtube doesn't count my own retention, in which case- I shall join you in crying.
 
obscurimity said:
My retention is really though, but because I'm a smaller channel, I think it might be because of me checking up on comments and such can really drag it down.

Unless youtube doesn't count my own retention, in which case- I shall join you in crying.
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Yeah, I'd be interested to know how they calculate it. I'd much rather see "audience retention for everyone who didn't click away in the first 5 seconds"
 
I don't pour through the data from my channel because it doesn't tell me anything useful-we always seem to be the exception and our stats make no sense at all. We have the opposite problem. Our longer videos have the best audience retention. We don't have a single video in our top 25 that is under 7 minutes. And we do way better when the videos are over 20 minutes. And of course that data is useless to me because you can't just make a video longer.
 
Wreckless Eating said:
I don't pour through the data from my channel because it doesn't tell me anything useful-we always seem to be the exception and our stats make no sense at all. We have the opposite problem. Our longer videos have the best audience retention. We don't have a single video in our top 25 that is under 7 minutes. And we do way better when the videos are over 20 minutes. And of course that data is useless to me because you can't just make a video longer.
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You're probably self-regulating that though. If a video is going really, really well (and it really engaging), you're likely to leave it long. Whereas if something sucks, you might trim it up to keep things more animated. Though maybe that's just me.
 
gisikw said:
You're probably self-regulating that though. If a video is going really, really well (and it really engaging), you're likely to leave it long. Whereas if something sucks, you might trim it up to keep things more animated. Though maybe that's just me.
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I don't really view videos as long or short. They are the length that they need to be. You can't cut content out and you definitely can't add extra time if the content isn't there.
 
gisikw said:
Well, but don't you cut out stuff if it's particularly unexciting, so long as it doesn't screw with continuity?
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If it's boring, it gets cut out or we'll speed up the video if it absolutely needs to be seen (like a food challenge so people know it's been completed and not editing trickery). I think one of your issues is that you have time to actually think about these things. We really don't because of our schedule, so we have to rely on our instincts and stick with them-there's really no chance for second guessing on a 2 a day release schedule.
 
Wreckless Eating said:
If it's boring, it gets cut out or we'll speed up the video if it absolutely needs to be seen (like a food challenge so people know it's been completed and not editing trickery). I think one of your issues is that you have time to actually think about these things. We really don't because of our schedule, so we have to rely on our instincts and stick with them-there's really no chance for second guessing on a 2 a day release schedule.
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Hah, it's funny, everyone else has been saying I have the opposite problem; they've been suggesting I cut down to one or two a week. I'd kill to do more; but not a chance while I have a day job.
 
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