If you would like to know
how long your YouTube videos should be,
then stay tuned to watch this video
as I show you how you can find out with a free tool.
Hi there, David Walsh here once again
from DavidWalshOnline.com,
and in this video, I'm gonna show you
how long your YouTube videos should be.
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Now, one of the most popular questions
I get asked by clients is, "How long should my videos be?"
And this is almost like asking,
how long is a piece of string?
Now the easy way to find out
how long your videos should be would be
to look at what the most popular videos are in your space.
If you're a gamer, then your videos come in anywhere
from 10, 15, 20 minutes,
all the way through to over an hour.
Gamers can watch videos for a very long time
so if you're creating engaging gaming content,
then you can have it for an hour,
maybe even an hour and a half, or even longer.
But for us mere mortals,
having an hour-and-half-long YouTube video
isn't going to really work unless we're live streaming
or something else like that.
In the how-to space, your YouTube videos are going to be
anywhere from three, four minutes up to maybe 15, maybe 20,
depending on the subject.
Depending on what it is the end goal of that video is.
So the first thing you need to do
is look at the space that you're in
and look at the top videos in that space
and how long they are.
So if you have a lot of videos
that are over 30 minutes or over 60 minutes,
then you know that you can create videos the same length
and have an audience that will watch them.
Now there is a free tool out there
that will help you find out
what the ideal length of your videos
from the top videos in your space.
So I'm gonna head on over to the trusty computer
to show you exactly how long your videos should be.
So the tool we use is called VideoAmigo
and it's at VideoAmigo.com.
So to go to the tool that shows you
how long your videos should be, go to Creator Tools Suite,
and then go to Analysis & Insights, click on the tab.
Then in here you have the Lengths tool, so click on that.
You will need to connect VideoAmigo to your YouTube channel
and once you have done that,
you'll see it on the top left-hand side.
So it goes through, it sees
how long your average length of your own videos are,
then it will also identify what category your videos are in.
And you can see here mine is in YouTube how-tos.
So it sees how long my videos are,
it sees how the average length
of all the YouTube videos are,
then we can see the average length
of the videos in this topic, which is nine minutes and 20.
And then they take a look at the top 10%
of the videos in this topic
and we see that this is five minutes and five seconds,
almost half of the average length
of the videos in this topic.
Now, if you are starting out and you wanna find out
what length your videos should be,
you can go up to this field here.
On the drop-down, select Topic.
Now, you can go and have a look at other channels
and see how long they are,
what their average video length is, et cetera,
and also how they compare to other channels in that space.
If you want to go by topic, click on Topic here.
So let's go for Fitness.
I'm gonna pick Fitness Over 40, Over 50 and Seniors,
and then we can see that the average length
in this topic is six minutes 22
but the average for the top 10% is actually nine minutes 17.
So this is actually the reverse of YouTube how-tos.
If you're researching a particular niche
or you're thinking about starting a channel
in a particular niche,
then you can select the topics up here
and then see how long the average video length is in there.
Then see how long the average video length in that topic is
and then the average video length of the top 10%
is in that topic as well.
There you go, that's how you can find exactly
how long your videos should be.
As well as doing the research to find out
what length the videos in your space are doing right now,
you can use VideoAmigo to find out
the exact length of those videos
that are at the top in your space.
What I want you to do now is let me know
how long are your videos?
Let me know in the old comments down below.
If you are starting out, let me know
what VideoAmigo has found for the ideal length
of your videos as well.
Again, pop it in the old comments area below.
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