What Does This Mean?
In short-form video, the share of viewers who watch a video to the end, treated by creators as a sign that a clip holds attention. It is closely related to average percentage viewed and retention, and creators often quote it when guessing what a platform recommends.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The edit is tight on purpose; a 15-second clip is easier to push to a high completion rate.""
LORE & ORIGIN
This is an ordinary analytics term rather than slang, and the pages opened for it document no slang use. Third-party creator guides seen in search results give YouTube Shorts benchmarks that disagree with each other (for example tiers from "poor" below 40 percent to "excellent" above 75 percent), so such numbers are rough guesses; Wikipedia's click-through rate article only lists view-through rate as a related term and defines no video completion rate. The community use is the belief that a high completion rate helps a video get recommended, which the platforms do not publish as a rule. No dated first use is documented. The existing entry on the watch completion curve covers the related retention graph. This is a weak entry.
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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