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YouTube Video Rankings by Length

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:37 am
by sharminakter
— YouTube Creator Academy

In short: the more time people spend watching your video, the more views it will get overall.

The question is:

How to create videos that make people want to watch them?

We're going to find out...

1. Create long videos

All things being equal, long videos perform better than short videos.

And there's data to prove it. We conducted the largest study ever done on YouTube's ranking factors (we analyzed over a million YouTube videos).

What did we find?

Long videos tend to rank better than short videos.

And these data confirm what I have india telegram data seen from my own experience.

Back then, I tended to post short videos like this:

Short video example
And that's one of the main reasons why my videos were virtually invisible on YouTube.

Today? I'm focusing on packing as much value as possible into a single video.

This means that my new videos tend to be around 10 minutes or more long:

And since my videos are quite long, they automatically accumulate a lot of total watch time.

2. Eliminate the superfluous from your intros