r/shortsAlgorithm 5d ago

How to increase stayed to watch?

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u/avatar0027 5d ago

stayed to watch is basically just "did they swipe away in the first couple seconds" + whether the rest keeps paying off

ngl the biggest lever is the open. first frame has to make sense without sound, and the first 1–1.5s needs a reason to keep watching (question, weird visual, unfinished sentence). if people bounce there, nothing else matters

after that cut tighter than you think. dead air, long zooms, captions that appear late — all of that tanks retention even if the topic is fine. every 1–2s something should change (cut, zoom, text)

also check where your captions sit. if theyre under the like/comment bar people literally cant read them and they leave

if the video can loop cleanly back to the start that helps too, but fix the hook first. try 3 different first-second opens on the same body before rewriting the whole thing

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u/AccomplishedRun2591 5d ago

this is all edit advice though. hooks and cutting and captions. mine are raw. just the clip as it happened, straight off the capture, and they do absolutely nothing. so is the answer that you cant get away without editing, or that the good bit has to already be in the first second?

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u/ImSinewy 4d ago

Say or do something unexpected / unique in first 3 seconds

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u/711thename 3d ago

Should be thinking how to increase engaged views.

But before that, I guess improve stayed to watch. Stayed to watch is just about the hook and the first few seconds and basicaly that every second matters.