How To Use The YOUTUBE VIDEO CHAPTER Feature To Increase Audience Retention

YOUTUBE VIDEO CHAPTER FEATURE

One of the main reasons why people don’t watch your videos till the end and also why they click out immediately they start watching your videos is because they simply don’t get exactly what they are looking for.

however, YouTube just recently rolled out a new feature that we are all excited about. This New feature is called the “video chapter”, which would help the viewer experience, which will in turn affect your retention rate, as well as your watch time.

Now, if you’re someone who has been struggling with retaining your viewers on your videos on your channel, then this is something you need to start trying out. you would learn exactly how you can start applying it onto your videos in order to increase your retention rates as well as your watch time.

Alright, so before we go ahead to show you exactly how to apply this feature onto your channel and on your individual videos you need to briefly understand the video chapter requirements, exactly what you need to do to make sure that this actually works on your video as well as on your channel in general.

Video Chapter Requirements

1. Okay, so now the first requirement is for you to have a video to edit.
2. The second requirement is to make sure that your timestamps are starting from zero seconds (00:00). if it doesn’t start from zero, it’s not going to work. It’s not going to break or segment your videos into different chapters.
3. The third requirement is to have at least three chapters for each to work out for you to be effective, and
4. The fourth one is it requires you to have a minimum of 10 seconds before and after each chapter so each chapter cannot be less than, 10 seconds.

How To Apply The NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO CHAPTER Timestamp Feature To Your Videos

1. Make sure to sign in to YouTube.
2. Go over and select the video you want to add the chapters to t
3. Select EDIT VIDEO DETAILS under the video.
4. In the “Description” box of the “Add details” page, add a list of timestamps and titles as desired.

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This feature going to help enhance viewer experience, as well as help optimise your video contents in terms of SEO, making them a lot more visible, this way YouTube also knows what your content is about and in turn grow views and your channel.