What Does This Mean?
The total duration a viewer spends watching a piece of content, treated by creators and platforms as the single most important success metric.
EXPLAINER
Brian G. Johnson TV · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He restructured the entire video around watchtime, the first ten seconds alone took three days to script."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard platform-analytics terminology that crossed into casual creator slang once watchtime visibly began outweighing view count for algorithmic reward.
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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