CAN YOU REACH THE END OF THIS VIDEO? (get more watch time)

need watch time this i keep on watching playlists are often overlooked and yes i've just heard you grown oh really alan i'm gonna get more watch time by people watching playlists i get it i get it i truly do but if you theme a playlist properly so all of a specific event or all of a specific style or i i really like financial and crypto videos i'll binge watch them back to back but when i have a little bit of time and want some fun i'll go up and watch scott the waz or philip defranco or game grumps or vsauce and i'll actively want to watch them back to back to back i don't want the auto play thing to suggest them for me because sometimes it pushes me elsewhere so if you can land people in playlists and make them watch from that playlist video it strings them along you can do this in two ways one hint that they've got a video that they should really watch that's super secret and i've linked it in the description down below and that links through to a playlist that they can binge watch that's helpful or funny or entertaining for them alternatively when you share your video first of all in social media and tick tock and twitter and forums and reddit instead of just sharing the video link you actually share the video link within the playlist that then jumps them into the playlist and at the end of that video it will auto play the next video within that playlist not the auto play not the suggested video it will play the next video within your playlist so therefore if they are listening and they are passive and they're doing the dishes they could listen to three or four of your videos or watch three or four of your videos or if your content for example is kids tv stuff you've got a four-year-old sat in front of a tv that now continues to watch the next i don't know baby bum coco melon doggy episodes back to back to back to back giving you more watch time and retention retention is key there's no point in having a 10 minute video if they jump off within 20 seconds if you click baited them into a title that doesn't have anything to do with it or it is so boring and ear splittingly painful to listen to or so hard to watch retention here is key you need to understand that the video needs to be long enough to satiate their needs not too short that they wanted much more and not too long that they get bored and hop out of the video you'll notice with this video for example there's b-roll to keep you interested i zoom in and out i'm changing the background to make it to something different something that engages people so their brain doesn't switch off it's okay if you're doing some kind of meditation video for them to just float off into the background if it's a podcast audio then people listen passively anyway but if you truly want some kind of retention where they lean in to the content you need to keep it eye-catching eye-popping you need to give them something special that's why i like my content that's why i engage with you that's why i'm much more handsy that's just me anyway i taught in my hands on one of those weirdos retention is key get them hook them keep them for as long as possible even if you promise that you know there's an eighth tip at the end of this video that is fantastic that kind of thing i cards the things that are up here i'm pointing somewhere because i'm never quite sure which direction they happen to be these are very powerful tools that are kind of like end screens but anywhere within your video i could talk about how to start a youtube channel and i can pop up a card as you can see here and it will direct them to a specific video i can refer to a specific piece of content and push them in that direction if they feel they've got the value out of this video and they hop over to there or it's more important for them to watch that video then they'll hop through the me fact that's suggested will help you the fact that it gives them an option that they will jump from here to another one of your videos help a session watch time the session watch time is also important that if truly the best option out of that video is somebody else's content that's not a negative against you you've continued that session watch time if i was to say that a certain tutorial was so much better than mine and you should go and check it out right then that pushes session watch time onto youtube youtube grants you the benefit of that watch time when they click off and leave another channel they penalize that channel and not yours so if you continue to push people wherever you want it could be with icards websites it could be downloadable links it could be playlists it could be videos whatever you wish use the icast your advantage because they're there just don't spam them at every single second right use them for relevant videos relevant links downloads that kind of thing and it can keep session and retention with you now i know i said this about retention but longer videos do truly help if there is something that you can do in 30 seconds and it doesn't need more than 30 seconds then fine i get that but i have master classes on this channel that teach you how to start a youtube channel how to get more views that are 15 20 minutes long the down the youtube algorithm to in a fine detail so you get exponentially more information out of it those videos have their place too if you make longer videos then people will watch for longer but once again you can't make a 30 second video which is how to put this screw in a piece of wood 10 minutes long because that's just padding so much it's it's not entertaining it's boring i'm sure jeff really likes you explaining that this tungsten screw goes through a certain thread because it's blur that many people won't be there's nothing wrong with making a 10 15 20 minute video if it truly warrants that 10 15 20 minute content have a look at people like vsauce philip defranco roberto blake lioness tech tips all of these channels do longer videos that are packed full of content and entertainment or educational mr beast is much more entertainment and his videos are also over 10 minutes in length and they're packed and they're powerful he could have just gone here's the squid game here's the winner ta-da there's the money but he doesn't he weaves it into a story he tells you how it goes so can you make a longer video with putting more value inside that explains it to people pretty much like this video here live streams this is the thing that got this channel like monetized straight off the bat you've got to imagine that i make a lot of tutorials on this channel that are one two three minutes long because i want to make them as long as they need to be i don't want to fill them with fluff these master classes a little bit different i want to bombard as many facts into your face as soon as possible but if you only want to know how to add in screens i do that in a minute or two and then i'm gone live streams on the other hand was a good way for me to push watch time basically i would sit there two to three times a week and i'd sit there with the camera for a couple of hours and i would chat and i'd do q a and i would talk about specific topics i would effectively record a podcast to the camera right and these live streams would help me boost my watch retention and people would watch me imagine you are live streaming for an hour and just five people hop into the live stream right don't think don't get it twisted you don't need hundreds of thousands of people to make it worthwhile all you need to do is be teaching or educating a few people right that's why twitch existed and the audience will grow over time they get used to oh alan shows up on a wednesday for a chat right so if if all of a sudden you're doing an hour's live stream and you do it with five people who pop in and out and most of it they're watching most of it in itself let's say they watch for half hour at a time when they jump out and jump out okay that's two and a half hours worth of watch time five people half hour each two and a half hours worth of watch time was if i was to do a one minute video i'd have to get thousands of people to watch that to get hours of watch time so live streaming can really jump the watch time potential of your channel end screens these are powerful tools that actually help you grab people from an engaged video and push them elsewhere so they can get the most out of growing their youtube channel by looking at this video here for example how to start your youtube channel or how to get more views see what i did just there come on check those videos out you'll really love