2 years back Brian Dean published statistics from analysing 1.3 Million YouTube videos[1]. Couple of key insights were, Comment count strongly correlates with

2 years back Brian Dean published statistics from analysing 1.3 Million YouTube videos[1]. Couple of key insights were, Comment count strongly correlates with higher rankings Average length of first page video is : 14 mins 50 secs I would say, if someone starts a new Youtube Channel today with original content. Unless it is >10 mins (purposefully not being succinct), cautiously scripting the content to encourage comments (which are likely to be off-topic, polarising, memes, sarcasm etc.); then there's no way the video is going to be on first page (or) gain large subscribers. [1]:https://backlinko.com/youtube-ranking-factors https://backlinko.com/youtube-ranking-factors Edit: Added /n for insights