Depends on the average retention rate, not retention time. There is a fundamental difference between the two. If a video only generates views, and has no conversion rate, with low retention, then there is no point in having it on youtube. All it does is knocks off your average view rate, and convinces your viewers some of your videos suck. I'm not sure what benefit there is?
its a like 4 min video and gets like 30% retention and not many subs whatsoever but it also has 192k views
Yes, its very possible to have a video with large views but few conversions, happens all the time man
. But I noticed that lately a lot of people is saying that there is one thing more important than retention, the total watch time so I think that you should focus on that also.
I don't think this is true btw. If you have low retention rate, like 10%, which is extremely low, then your video will never be recommended or shown in search. How would total watch time help, then? =/I struggle with the retention rate a lot, basically my general retention % is around 10% and even if i have a young channel I think it's pretty bad ( the worst part is that sometimes it even decreases sometimes, along with watching time D