> I agree that many Youtube videos are tedious and needlessly dragged out, probably caused by focussing on time spent as KPI. Too many Youtube videos nowadays give a strong vibe of creators being made only for the money.
Yep, and honestly I can't blame them. But at this point every video I watch I immediately press '1' to skip to 10% of the video as a start, then correct if I went too far or if I haven't gone far enough.
The first 10% is usually spent on an intro which is entirely useless to 90% of the audience. e.g. there'll be a video called 'How to add a screen protector to your phone' of 10 minutes, at least the first minute will be a talking head asking if you remember how scared you get every time you drop your phone because it may have cracked the screen, explains how much that sucks, then explains that screen protectors reduce the chance of that blablabla. Stuff everyone knows, which is why they probably bought one, and after wondering how to put it on their phone looked up your video and clicked it... then after they explained the problem, they'll tell you that in this video they'll be providing an answer.
It's okay once but it gets super tedious. Imagine for every search on Google you first get a minute of speech on what the typical reasons were that you likely searched for this, and that this google search is going to provide you with possible answers...
That having been said, I see this on TikTok too. There'll be some music playing and a 'wait till the end' comment, and you're just staring at your screen and nothing happens until quite a bit later, and it's often disappointing too. At least on YT you can skip through easily.
Yep, and honestly I can't blame them. But at this point every video I watch I immediately press '1' to skip to 10% of the video as a start, then correct if I went too far or if I haven't gone far enough.
The first 10% is usually spent on an intro which is entirely useless to 90% of the audience. e.g. there'll be a video called 'How to add a screen protector to your phone' of 10 minutes, at least the first minute will be a talking head asking if you remember how scared you get every time you drop your phone because it may have cracked the screen, explains how much that sucks, then explains that screen protectors reduce the chance of that blablabla. Stuff everyone knows, which is why they probably bought one, and after wondering how to put it on their phone looked up your video and clicked it... then after they explained the problem, they'll tell you that in this video they'll be providing an answer.
It's okay once but it gets super tedious. Imagine for every search on Google you first get a minute of speech on what the typical reasons were that you likely searched for this, and that this google search is going to provide you with possible answers...
That having been said, I see this on TikTok too. There'll be some music playing and a 'wait till the end' comment, and you're just staring at your screen and nothing happens until quite a bit later, and it's often disappointing too. At least on YT you can skip through easily.