Watchtime
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The amount of time that viewers spend watching something. uncountable
"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 an updated stat in a while, we still don't have a perfect idea of how YouTube and Facebook's platforms compare in terms of watchtime."
Example
More examples"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 an updated stat in a while, we still don't have a perfect idea of how YouTube and Facebook's platforms compare in terms of watchtime."
Etymology
From watch + time.
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