 How long should your videos be to help your channel grow as quickly as it can? Not my videos. I was hoping you would read it from your voice. The answer is audience retention. Let me hide myself so you can see that audience retention tells you how many of your views, in this case 10%, watch your video in this case to 10 minutes. You should also look at your relative audience retention which tells you where your audience drops off. In my case it's 8 minutes. These two very valuable pieces of information are well hidden in YouTube analytics. It's not here guys. If you go to the analytics page you will not find audience retention anywhere. YouTube has hidden it or put it into the videos section. You have to click analytics on the video you're interested in getting audience retention for and here it is. Now you click see more and you get those same two reports. Now here is something very interesting. Look for little spikes like this. See at 7 minutes and 15 seconds 12% of my audience was watching but 19% watched 7.22. Why is that? Let me show you and you should use this trick in all of your videos. In the comments put cool things in your video like this. 7 minutes and 20 seconds floating head. Let me play the clip. So in this mode you probably would see just a floating head. Quick wardrobe change complete. Here is the talking head. I am kind of black on black. Now fun fact you notice I shaved my mustache. Do I look better with the shaved mustache or with the mustache? What do you guys think? Click that I to take a poll. YouTube hasn't removed poll cards yet. So let's have one more a chance to have one more fun poll should George keep his mustache in future videos. But my point is enough people click this link because it was such a fun sounding comment who wouldn't want to see a floating head that it made a big difference in my analytics and it created a spike in my audience retention. Now audience retention is directly related to watch time. Watch time helps you get more views and recommended in YouTube search because YouTube looks at watch time not views in deciding which videos to recommend. Do you use audience retention to determine how long your videos should be? I would love to know down there in the comments below what techniques you use to help you decide how long your videos should be for your audience on your channel. In my case I decided that my videos should be 10 minutes long ish based on my audience retention data. Another good tip to help you decide when to upload your videos is in YouTube analytics under audience. Here you will see a chart of when your viewers are on YouTube to help you decide when to upload each day. So for me in the last 28 days now you can't change this if you change this to let's say 365 days the report doesn't change it's always the last 28 days. For me I have an interesting bit of data Friday I'm supposed to upload at 5 p.m. whereas on Thursday it says 6 p.m. So I'm going to try uploading this video at 5 p.m. on Friday this is my local time here in Dubai. I'm curious do you use this when your viewers are on YouTube report to help you decide when to upload your videos? Tell me down there in the comments below so we can all help each other grow together as a family because that is the spirit of freedom. And do you have any other helpful tips or advice to share about growing on YouTube? I have one more head on over to community.tm and introduce yourself we have an introduce yourself forum under the forums section and it's an active forum where you can meet many other people to collaborate with. Collaboration as you know is the fastest way to grow on YouTube and you can see there are many people here that are introducing themselves. I'm going to pick one at random I literally have not looked at this before making this video so I don't know what I'm going to get here. So we have I'm sort of new to YouTube thing and I mostly started doing gaming however I do try to post other variety contents such as vlogs and tutorials as well. Carl D with 37 subscribers let's have a look at your channel Carl. So here is Carl's channel he's one of the people who have recently introduced themselves on our forums and as you can see he is just getting started he's only got a few views per video. Let's take a look how to take a nap. Alright Carl teach me how to take a nap. Howdy and welcome to my useless tutorial on how to take a nap. Okay. Step one get comfy. I like to wear my Super Saiyan t-shirt I like to lay on Elizabeth from Jintama. He's literally teaching us how to take a nap. Alright if you like this video I'm putting a link down there in the description below just because it's such a cool concept. My point is head on over to the forums and introduce yourself. Hopefully you will get someone to pick your channel and give you a shout out like I just did to Carl and I hope you'll find other people to collaborate with in in this forum. Do you use the freedom forums? Do you post in the other areas such as reviewing your channel or getting feedback on your videos? There's a lot here for collaboration announcing your milestones and achievements and look guys we actually have like 50,000 members 54,000 to be exact so there's a lot of people here and I know many of you are struggling to get views and get discovered but instead of hoping some big youtuber not me I'm not a big youtuber gives you a shout out to give you a break just put in the work join the communities get involved in discord chat servers the link to our discord is down there in the description below you should check it out if you haven't already and find people to collaborate with because it bears repeating collaboration is the fastest way to grow on YouTube. Alright freedom family I hope you found this video helpful about how long your videos should be as I said mine or about 10 minutes is my sweet spot what's yours and who am I I am Papa George George Sunpie and that I forgot again searching for the comment for the bearded man and Mr. Super Freedom George the bearded man okay I am the CEO and founder of freedom for freedom and the freedom family where we all help each other grow together as a family so today guys I am drinking kefir anyone heard about kefir before it's fermented milk just basically like butter milk or that thick creamy milk but kefir is a specific kind of fermentation and I love it I can't get enough of it I keep buying it from my grocery store my wife is wondering if I need a new fridge for how much I buy they also come with these cool little flavors like cherry what is this morello cherry I don't know what the difference between a morello cherry is and a cherry cherry but it tastes pretty good you guys have a favorite drink you like to binge drink from time to time tell me down there in the comments below and I'd love to feature any videos of you drinking your favorite drink just send me links to those as well a little bit of a fun way to end this video I hope you agree and if there's any other videos you would like me to make make tell me down there in the comments below I'm looking for your feedback because I make these videos for you guys of course I'm gonna keep making videos even if none of you give me any suggestions but I'd love to get your suggestions because this is about engaging with you working together growing together as a family all right freedom I am George and you've been watching who you dreaming but love yeah click that I to partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together you get many perks like position music you also get epidemic sound a lot of other access to royalty-free videos sponsorships and many things to help you grow just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community our forums our discord chat servers meet our graphics team meet our community team all of that on discord and the forums what are you waiting for get started and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together to get more George click that big F that will subscribe you to freedom central home of the George show and PewDiePie gave one of you freedom family a big shout out click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3d sets for you and click that video to see what YouTube recommends you watch next