YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor

The YouTube Blog announced they have adjusted their ranking algorithm to include the time a video was watched. YouTube said they experimented with this ranking factor with suggested videos and it lead to “less clicking” and “more watching” and thus feels it is a good idea to add to the overall YouTube Search ranking algorithm. Part of this announcement, YouTube also added the time watched statistics to video producers YouTube Analytics dashboard. You can access the time watched statistics under the “Views” report. There is a section labeled “Estimated minutes watched.” Here are screen shots from two of my videos I made in the past few weeks: You can see that while the Apple Maps published on September 28th has over twice as many views as the Google EMD video published on October 5th, the time watched on that video is less than the Google EMD video. In fact, I have five tim...

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@Michele_Mancino » 08 Nov '12, 9am
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@juliewarnecke » 18 Oct '12, 5pm
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@MaryKillelea » 18 Oct '12, 5pm
YouTube shuffled their algorithm and now "Time Watched' is a ranking factor. Does YouTube drive traffic for you? [link]
@DannyJnr_ » 18 Oct '12, 5pm
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@MelClarkMkt » 18 Oct '12, 4pm
Good idea? We think so. YouTube Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor: [link]
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@ItsBuddhaBlaze » 18 Oct '12, 12pm
Youtube now introduces the 'How Much Time' timer [link]
@pointintimes » 17 Oct '12, 7pm
Google has changed YouTube rankings for Video: [link]
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@Google adds time viewed to video search rankings [link]
@AskWebKnowHow » 17 Oct '12, 6pm
YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor - Mozilla Firefox [link]
@BrandonWaselnuk » 17 Oct '12, 1pm
Very interesting, Youtube adds 'time watched' as a ranking factor. [link]
@OptFirst » 16 Oct '12, 10pm
For YouTube, the amount of time a video is watched is the name of the game. [link]
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Reading: "YouTube adjust ranking algorithm to inc. 'time video watched' as ranking factor" - [link] c/o @wooshii & @JustSearch
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#SocialMedia #Marketers could always use more information. YouTube now tracking effectiveness with ad time watched [link]
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Time watched now a #YouTube search ranking factor » [link] This change lead to “less clicking” and “more watching”
@bestrelations » 16 Oct '12, 7am
¿Os gustan las estadísticas? Pues ahora YouTube mostrará la estimación del tiempo que se ha visto un vídeo [link]
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Time watched is now a ranking factor for YouTube videos [link] Here comes all of the time lapsing spammers
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Search option in YouTube adds Time Watched as a ranking factor. [link]
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@RocketClicks » 15 Oct '12, 2pm
YouTube Search Ads now include the time a video was watched in algorithm - [link] via @sengineland
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Dünya'nın en büyük 2. arama motoru olan Youtube'a yeni bir sıralama faktörü eklendi; [link] #SEO