[MR.]

Originally Posted by Artemis

YouTube and the like should not reward clicks, but real running time views: did someone watch the whole video or most parts of it, or merely just zap a few seconds and leave ?

And that is exactly what they do... It is called watch time and retention

MR

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by MR.

And that is exactly what they do... It is called watch time and retention
MR

That approach should be welcomed.

And the technique of splitting a website article in multiple pages has spun out of control, mainly as a tool to hunt for page views. The click$ business. Its initial purpose used to be to ease access for early generation smartphones (not requiring to load all pictures at the same time - needless to say that downloading on smartphones used to be slower in the past). Unfortunately, this technique has become an artificial way to inflate the page view count (fake popularity to fool publishers and investors: "our website averages x views per day") and to infest each page with publicity. There used to be a time that people didn't mind. Lately it's becoming outright annoying. An interesting article discussing pros and cons: here ("The Pros and Cons of Splitting Blog Posts into Multiple Pages").

Let me predict what will be the future VLOG trend: one 15 min video shot the same day, split up in 3 separate videos of 5 minutes, each featuring a different chapter ("Car X - Part 1: general overview of the car", "Car X - Part 2: exterior features", "Car X - Part 3: interior features", etc.): "you, viewer, get the content you're looking for in a more concise video" + keeping the attention span + multiplying the view count. Thank me later for pitching the idea, MR..

[MR.]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Let me predict what will be the future VLOG trend: one 15 min video shot the same day, split up in 3 separate videos of 5 minutes, each featuring a different chapter ("Car X - Part 1: general overview of the car", "Car X - Part 2: exterior features", "Car X - Part 3: interior features", etc.): "you, viewer, get the content you're looking for in a more concise video" + keeping the attention span + multiplying the view count. Thank me later for pitching the idea, MR..

We did that four years ago... But now it doesn't work anymore... The algorithms will never be able to push all three videos in the same way. Therefore it is better to include all in one, and what you say will never happen within the current algorithm set ups.

There is too much content on YouTube to deal with chapters and different videos that are episodes. We would first have to see a decrease of content being uploaded on YouTube, and that is definitely not happening anytime soon. It is only becoming more.

YouTube is aimed at the Netflix model while Facebook is more aimed at the shorter video model and since Facebook video ads and content copyright ID has still not landed on FB no influencer will ever move to Facebook.

In the end nice idea, but for YouTube video that does not work anymore

MR

[JustChris]

Great video. Well done @MR

Shmee is rotating cars like crazy here days, happy times!

[M3_WC]

@MR looking forward to the upcoming videos.