Boosting Your YouTube Retention: What You Need to Know!
Discover how to read your audience retention graph and what action steps to take to keep viewers engaged on your video.
The most important takeaways from your audience retention graph is to start off with a strong hook, that has an audience retention of over 60% to 70% and then to keep them watching all the way through your video. On your next video, remove the things that caused dips in your previous video so you can improve your audience retention.
What if you want to study the audience retention analytics for multiple videos across your entire channel? Click on analytics in YouTube studio, then under the content tab, select videos, Scroll down where it says key moments for audience retention. It's got above typical intros and below typical intros. In the videos with above typical intros, 60% of the viewers are still watching within the first 30 seconds. All these videos probably used a strong hook in the first 30 seconds to keep viewers watching.
On the right, If you click top moments, you see the key moments for audience retention for all these videos on your channel. If you click on dips, you can study the videos on your channel where viewers are, abandoning or skipping certain parts of your video.
