Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years
by prostoalex on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:45AM
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> If they counted those sub 3 sec views in the count but not in the duration
It sounds like this was exactly what was happening.
From the article: "Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Facebook’s new metric, “Average Watch Time”, will reflect video views of any duration."
It sounds like this was exactly what was happening.
From the article: "Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Video views of under three seconds were not factored in, thereby inflating the average. Facebook’s new metric, “Average Watch Time”, will reflect video views of any duration."