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watchtime

watchtime noun: the amount of time that viewers spend watching something.

Noun

watchtime (uncountable)

  1. The amount of time that viewers spend watching something.
    • YouTube has also said that its watchtime has been growing 60% year-over-year. With some rough math, let's say then that YouTube now has around 650 million hours of watchtime a day. Facebook video could be seeing about one-sixth of the watchtime as YouTube. Because YouTube hasn't actually released...2016 January 28, Jillian D'Onfro, “Facebook finally gave us a real idea how close it's getting to YouTube”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2016
    • Jason Urgo, CEO of YouTube analytics firm Social Blade, told Motherboard that according to data pulled from over 12,000 channels over the month of May, "there is evidence that, on average, a video when viewed on mobile will have less watchtime than any other platform." He found that videos watched...2017 May 26, Meaghan Beatley, “20-Minute Episodes of 'Game of Thrones' Are Just About Ads”, in Vice, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2022

Examples of watchtime in a sentence

  • YouTube has also said that its watchtime has been growing 60% year-over-year.2016 January 28, Jillian D'Onfro, “Facebook finally gave us a real idea how close it's getting to YouTube”, in Business Insider, archived...
  • "When taking a macro look into watchtime habits, yes there is evidence that shorter is better on mobile," he said.2017 May 26, Meaghan Beatley, “20-Minute Episodes of 'Game of Thrones' Are Just About Ads”, in Vice, archived from the original on 21 Jan...
  • To qualify for the YouTube Partner Program, a channel must meet the threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers.2018, Kenneth E. Long, Trump’s Economic Era and the Neoconservatives, Progressives and Globalists, [Radford, Va.]: Austrian Economics...
  • YouTube’s recommendation system is engineered to maximize watchtime, among other factors, the company says, but not to favor any political ideology.2019 August 25, Max Fisher, Amanda Taub, “In Brazil, YouTube Fuels Rise of Far Right”, in The New York Times International Weekly (in...

Origin of watchtime

From watch + time.

Questions about watchtime

What does watchtime mean?
Watchtime means the amount of time that viewers spend watching something.
How do you use watchtime in a sentence?
YouTube has also said that its watchtime has been growing 60% year-over-year.
What part of speech is watchtime?
Watchtime is a noun.

Words near watchtime in the dictionary

  1. watchstanders
  2. watchstanding
  3. watchstrap
  4. watchstraps
  5. watcht
  6. watchtime
  7. watchtower
  8. watchtowers
  9. Watchupga
  10. Watchuset
  11. Watchusett

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