500 YouTube Watch Hours in 776 Days — The Real Numbers

The photography channel reached 500 YouTube watch hours on October 15 2025 — 776 days and 62 videos after launch.

Milestone Snapshot

MetricValue
Total Watch Hours500
Date of MilestoneOctober 15, 2025
Days Since Launch770
Total Videos Published62

A few ratios for anyone tracking their own progress:

  • Watch Hours per Day: 0.64
  • Watch Hours per Video: 8.06
  • Watch Hours per Minute of Published Content: 2.15

Key Viewer Metrics

(All metrics from YouTube Analytics as of October 15th, 2025)

MetricValue
Total Views9,182
Average View Duration3:16
Average % Viewed26.9%
Average CTR3.5%

Top Videos

VideoWatch HoursPercent
TOP 1 Video383.676.5%
TOP 3 Videos398.782.3%
TOP 5 Videos412.784.7%

One video continues to carry the channel. Video 052 — the same outlier discussed earlier — still accounted for about 10 % of total watch hours this past week, while all attempts to recreate it have fallen short.

VideoWatch HoursPercent
Video 052383.676.5%
Video 06215.13.0%
Video 05914.02.8%
Video 0426.51.3%
Video 0575.71.1%
Others75.115.3%

500 watch hours reached on October 15th, 2025. All data sourced from YouTube Analytics.

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