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58% -- average view duration lift for YouTube (2025-05)
Videos where more than 65% of viewers make it past the first minute show 58% higher average view duration across the rest of the video.
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58%
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2025-05
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30
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95
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Retention Rabbit
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https://virvid.ai/blog/retention-graphs-how-to-read-youtube-analytics-2026 ↗
Source Article
How to Read Retention Graphs Like a Pro
How to Read Retention Graphs Like a Pro
Your YouTube retention graph is a second-by-second record of every moment viewers decided your video was worth their time, or decided it wasn't.
Table of Contents
- What Is a Retention Graph, Actually?
- The Four Graph Shapes and What They Mean
- How to Read D…
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Retention Rabbit
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Retention Rabbit May 2025 benchmark report
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YouTube: 58% average view duration lift. Source: Retention Rabbit (2025-05). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-1min-retention-view-duration-lift-2025
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