How To Increase Watch Time On YouTube | Optimization Tips

- I'm gonna show you five very easy ways to increase the watch time on your channel. And we're starting right now. (hip-hop music) What is going on? My name is Nick. Welcome to another video. If this is your first time here and you wanna learn how to grow your channel and make videos and all types of other YouTube-related stuff, make sure to hit the subscribe button and the bell notification icon, so you don't miss anything. Okay, before we get into this, did you know that YouTube specifically states in several places that they reward videos that keep viewers watching. In other words, it keeps people on YouTube. They also state that the idea behind the algorithm is that viewers can see more enjoyable content suggested to them. Pretty crazy, right? Real quick, before we get started, let me know in the comments what your current average watch time on your videos is. I'm just curious to know. The first thing you can do to increase the accumulated watch time on your channel is you can add cards right before the dropoff points when you look inside of your view retention statistics. It also helps if you add playlists right before the repetitive end screen that comes up, that your regular viewers are used to seeing, and of course, it only makes sense to do it in logical places throughout the rest of the video as well. Number two. Use branded thumbnails. The idea behind this is you want your content to be extremely easy to recognize, no matter where it pops up inside of the YouTube platform. Doesn't matter if it's a suggested video, it doesn't matter if it's a recommended video, it doesn't matter if you're poppin' up on a homepage. You want your viewers to quickly and easily be able to identify your content if they like your content. Because that way, they can easily come in and watch more of it. The basic idea here is, you want people to easily be able to recognize your stuff. Because if they like it, they're gonna click on it. And if they can recognize your thumbnails at a glance, regardless of what your title...