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What Does 'Retention Gradient' Mean?

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The rate at which a video's audience drops off as it plays, tracked second-by-second to identify exactly where viewers are losing interest.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The retention gradient tanks right after the intro, gotta cut that part down."

LORE & ORIGIN

Standard analytics-dashboard terminology, describing the slope of a retention curve rather than a single flat number.

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