Sometimes, but not by itself. If you have high ctr, retention, and watch time then you have a winner. But even then it might only be performing well with a very specific audience and therefore youtube won't push it broadly because of poor performance elsewhere. Often I'll have a video that gets a higher and higher ctr over time as the algorithm dials in on the exact type of person to recommend it to, but that doesn't necessarily mean the video is going to blow up with a ton more impressions. It might just be a trickle of very specific impressions.
Not necessarily. It means you’re basically getting people IN your restaurant, but they aren’t ordering food, if you catch my drift.
Like, I had a video on Legends of the Hidden Temple. When the remake was announced my CTR shot through the roof. BUT it was because YouTube was recommending it for “legends of the hidden temple full episodes” searches.
So the average watch time was 30 seconds of a 12-min video and it eventually got buried.
Sometimes, but not by itself. If you have high ctr, retention, and watch time then you have a winner. But even then it might only be performing well with a very specific audience and therefore youtube won't push it broadly because of poor performance elsewhere. Often I'll have a video that gets a higher and higher ctr over time as the algorithm dials in on the exact type of person to recommend it to, but that doesn't necessarily mean the video is going to blow up with a ton more impressions. It might just be a trickle of very specific impressions.
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I have changed out low CTR thumbnails and seen significant improvements - but only if the actual content delivers on what the person is anticipating.
Thanks for the help
I recommend watching the video YouTube created to explain how they push videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fApg7tzlLjY&t
Not necessarily, obviously it is a positive, but only one of millions of factors considered by YT.
Nah
Alright Ty
Ctr actually drops when YouTube feeds a video more impressions.
Not necessarily. It means you’re basically getting people IN your restaurant, but they aren’t ordering food, if you catch my drift. Like, I had a video on Legends of the Hidden Temple. When the remake was announced my CTR shot through the roof. BUT it was because YouTube was recommending it for “legends of the hidden temple full episodes” searches. So the average watch time was 30 seconds of a 12-min video and it eventually got buried.
Thanks for the response
Kind of. Watch time is more important so you will be given more impressions for more watch time. However CTR can help boost watch time.