B
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70%
70% -- recommendation share of watch time for YouTube total time spent by users (2018)
Recommendations account for about 70% of the total time users spend on YouTube.
- Approximate figure ('about 70 percent')
- Reported by YouTube CPO Neal Mohan at CES 2018
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70%
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Data Vintage
2018
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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YouTube (Neal Mohan at CES 2018)
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YouTube (Neal Mohan at CES 2018)
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Stated by YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan at CES 2018, as cited in the article; 'about' indicates approximation.
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YouTube total time spent by users: 70% recommendation share of watch time. Source: YouTube (Neal Mohan at CES 2018) (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-recommendation-watch-time-share
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-recommendation-watch-time-share" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>70%</strong> -- recommendation share of watch time for YouTube total time spent by users<br><small>Source: YouTube (Neal Mohan at CES 2018) (2018) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-recommendation-watch-time-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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