Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Video Viewing Statistics

How Long Do You Watch?

It is interesting when you get stats on the views of your videos.  Do you know that the owner of the video has access to not only the views but the length of time you watch and also whether you watch with sound on or off?

We put up a video update on Facebook and found that only 38% of the video was watched on average. That tells us that a 1:14 video posting is a waste of bandwidth when only 27 seconds is being watched.

There were 4 videos made on the same day and only one has been posted thus far on Facebook. The remaining 3 were uploaded to our YouTube Channel and are scheduled to be posted over the next 3 days. Interestingly YouTube average video viewing time is even less than Facebook at a meager 18 seconds. It will be particularly interesting to watch the stats of the different videos and see how they vary. Will they all have the same short attention span viewership? Will people be bored by a video each day? It really is interesting to have the stats available and to learn how to interact with people as they desire.

Things are busy around here so it may be the easiest way to reach people and let's face it, if they are only watching for 30 seconds tops it is quick and easy to meet them where they want.

This is a quite different post for our blog but we would like to hear from you. Do you have a blog or Facebook page that you manage? What have you found your followers enjoy or do you even look at your stats? Share your thoughts whether as a follower or a fellow blogger. How long do you watch video?

And to make it easy for our blog followers here are the videos we posted on YouTube. You'll have to click on the link for the Facebook video but you don't need a facebook account to watch it.


Our Garden View


Chicken Enclosure


Tono Debugging Roll


Enjoy!