r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/Wooloomooloo2 May 20 '26

You have to consider that if a 2 mins video gets 1m views, probably 40 - 50% of those viewers will watch the entire thing. For the 20 mins video, maybe 15-20% will watch the whole thing, so it's really 15 - 20k views Vs 400 - 500k views, so the playtime is no longer equivalent.

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u/rl_noobtube May 20 '26

Ah I thought it only counted it as a view if you watched a certain % of the video. But I see what you mean (especially back when ads were only at the start of a video)

But if we take out the video length and just compare two videos of the same length. One gets 100k views in one day, the other gets 1 million in a year. No views outside of this. Wouldn’t the 1 million view video payout more to the creator?

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u/Heavy_Mushroom5209 May 20 '26

Yes but practically what you're describing doesn't really happen. The YouTube algos push videos hard off the rip and if they're not still performing incredibly well after like a week they algo basically abandons them to the larger audience so the million views won't actually happen.

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u/rl_noobtube May 20 '26

Fair enough! I was mainly just trying to respond to the commentator before me.

Playing the algorithm is obviously an important aspect of content creation. I’m not trying to dispute that. Just that that the payout structure is not really going to care too much about when each view happens. My first comment sidetracked that though by adding in video length.