>>1427351Revenue from monetization != Youtube's algorithm, and while they've moved on to a more holistic approach, watch time is still the most important metric for engagement.
>So a video with 1M views that had 5k live viewers would still make more moeny and being more promoted by youtube than one with 30k viewers and ended up with 100k. In streaming you want a lot of people come in and rotate since reaching to that casual user base is what makes the stream money in you tube and what keeps you on the algorithm. This isn't necessarily true, but I already said that number of impressions is one of the most important metrics. The thing is, you aren't getting that with looking at only the number of views on vods at the end of stream.
>In streaming you want a lot of people come in and rotate since reaching to that casual user base is what makes the stream money in you tube and what keeps you on the algorithm. The entire reason they swapped off of views in 2012 is because they didn't want people to just come in and out for a minute and leave Youtube. I'm not sure why you would claim that people rotating in and out is what Youtube wants when even you've said that they focus on engagement. Number of views is less relevant to engagement than watch time.
>Unless you are somehow making the same user watch the vod multiple times, which can happen and is noticeable by the increase of view but not an increase of engagement.This does happen and unless you're the creator there's no way to tell unique number of views unless you just try to estimate comparing similar video content and length, but this has nothing to do with what we're discussing anyways.
