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Curious because most my tutorials have a retention like this. It’s always like, 15% max amount of people actually finish them
Curious because most my tutorials have a retention like this. It’s always like, 15% max amount of people actually finish them
I don’t, BUT it’s mostly because they are out of my skill set, or I plan to keep it saved for learning later.
Once I’m actively learning it I’ll watch it through like 500 times, and focus in on different steps of a trick (why I really like tuts that utilized YouTube’s chapters feature, you can loop specific parts hands free).
So I have a conspiracy theory and lmk what you think. I was at first bamboozled that my watch time was so bad because I thought most people who try learning from it will watch it several times or slow things down which raises watch time. But no not at all haha. But that got me thinking, if a tutorial is bad and has a lot more yapping, YouTube then promotes that instead because watch time = being promoted on yt. So maybe that’s why my style of tuts are so rare? Like I’ll see some but they’re not close as popular as like, front angle explain while doing tuts. Or not explaining tuts so you’re forced to constantly rewind.
Totally valid. Ik I save a lot of stuff super late at night and I’m like sheeeesh I gotta learn that later. And then forget about it haha
Edit: I’m so sorry about not including chapters… (they don’t let me edit chapters on my phone and I’m basically never at my PC because of little man)
Me, 100%. I added a little bit more context to my previous reply, too
no way watching a tut means I’m committing to learning it. idk I wouldn’t worry abt it like do a good job and ppl will watch them. It seems like ppl like your tuts so just keep it up yo
I almost always do, simply because there could be some finer point, or alternate “trick” to the tutorial in the final section of it, I’ve encountered this a few times, and once or twice it turned out to be a game changer for how easily I picked up the trick myself.
I save a fair number after watching the intro. Many of those may never get watched again.
I watch a fair number and then decide to bail because I’m not interested in the trick.
The ones that I decide to stick with get watched many times. But if there is some element in beginning or middle that takes longer to learn, I only watch to the end once or twice. Not sure how that would factor.
You say your watch time is bad. Is that compared to similar content? Just based on my experience and instinct (fwiw), the chart seems like what I would expect to see.
I will watch the demo to see what the trick is all about but necessary learn it then and there.
Honestly I watch a lot of tutorial beginnings just to actually see the trick and then decide if I’m going to learn it.
Most of the time, if I’m learning a tut I watch it all the way through at least once if only because I get in the practice zone and forget to pause it.
People aren’t gonna commit to learning a trick before they’ve even seen it, and they have to click on the video to actually see what the trick even is.
I’d imagine viewer stats on almost every yoyo tutorial look identical to this.
When I mean bad it’s like, YouTube wants you to have like 70% of people watching til the end or so, but I get 12%. Like in yt eyes it’s just objectively bad
I’d hazard a guess that most people’s thought when they open a tutorial is “what even is this trick and once I see it I’ll decide if I want to watch it”. This is certainly my approach and I would therefore expect a big drop off in viewers after the initial demo for any tutorial regardless of format. Maybe it’ll be different for beginner/very well known tricks where most viewers will likely be specifically searching for it or know the trick going in.
Fwiw, stats like viewer retention (and most other YouTube key stats) are going to be geared towards content that builds a parasocial bond where the idea is regular viewers click on the video for YOU less so than whatever the content of the video is (though that content may be good for getting new viewers). Tutorials are therefore inherently not going to do great in most of these stats. Ultimately only really matters if you want a career on YouTube instead of making content you are happy with for the fun of it.
Yeah sounds about right
I usually watch the trick in the beginning. Decide if this is a trick I would like to learn, save it in my playlist for later.
Then when I am trying to learn it I prefer minimal yapping and clear instruction on what strings to hit and what not to do
I see.
70% to the end seems like a tough standard to meet with tutorials.
Oh yeah, that being said if it was the type of tutorial that’s confusing, the kind that makes u constantly rewind to be like huh what did he do? Then that number will easily skyrocket haha. It’s legit one of the ways ik I explained a part bad because I’d see a noticable spike in a part
Absolutely not. Most likely I’ll borrow a couple of elements from it and mess around. In the early stages, yes, I mastered a whole trick like Cold Fusion, but as time went on was only intrigued by elements.
Actually, I misread this. You meant finish watching, not trick mastery.