It depends on the content. YouTube rewards long watch times, which is why the people creating content stretch the video's duration regardless of whether it's ne

It depends on the content. YouTube rewards long watch times, which is why the people creating content stretch the video's duration regardless of whether it's needed or not. Much of the content in the past was largely devoid of actual content with the focus being to build up suspense to get the person to keep watching. Take those slow-mo videos, for example. There's a few seconds or a minute of actual content - the rest is just filler. Myth Busters was the same years ago. I'll watch a longer video if the amount of content in it justifies this. That's rarely the case for me, though.