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  • 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.