Watching time
Top creators
Top (rewatched) videos
Top interactions (most commented or liked)
Top newcomers
Top genres, as a whole or make each its own category:
- Top music (videos)
- Top comedy
- Top horror
- Top commentary
- Top news
- etc
Would also be interested in maybe a % of videos watched this year for your top creators. Like spotify's thing where you're in the top whatever % of listeners, how many videos from my favorite creator did i miss?
there is a youtube wrapped! It's not that good and I don't think it's accessible at all if you aren't on mobile but if you go to like the gaming section in the app there's a wrapped and it shows your most watched youtubers and it has some other stats too
Top creators watched, average watchtime, genres or common tags watched. Maybe a percentage of how much of your top creators posted content you watched that year. maybe the longest and shortest videos watched, most and least popular videos watched etc
Do you know how many times I'll leave YouTube playing and it'll eventually start playing either a video by @foldablehuman.bsky.social or the @overlysarcastic.bsky.social Rome video? I've woken up to the middle of the last one so often I'm probably responsible for 200-300 of the views on it 🤣
for us long term users, perhaps we could get a every 5 years interest trend chart showing who we watch and types of topics we focused into.
100% seeing mine as just minecraft and pbs science stuff
I'd rather see YouTube Unwrapped. 22 minutes of Marc Summers showing us a behind-the-scenes look at how some of our favorite YouTube videos get made! And then an episode of original Iron Chef, ideally with Sakai as the Iron Chef, but I'm not picky
I would want separate wraps for actual videos and shorts, hours watched amount of videos and who I watched the most with types of videos. A cool one would be "Hey you watched a lot of videos from this guy you aren't subbed to, you should go subscribe to show your appreciation!" Or something similar.
I mean we kinda do but you gotta pay for it as it is. I'm still not sure how one of the bands I stopped listening to early in the year last year ended up on my top 5 even though I've listened to so many other bands more often and for a longer number of minutes. 🤷🏻♀️
How many shorts I’ve seen throughout the entire year, the longest stretch of time or number of shorts I watched in a single sitting, and a suggested new genre of video I should check out based on the videos I watched throughout the year.
# of vids watched, hours watched, # channels watched, average watch time (like how much i watched before choosing something else), average channel sub count, total interactions with videos (likes & comments), top video genres/styles if that data is available, new channel recs
Like what @mkbhd.com said, should have rebranded YouTube rewind to be like Wrapped. I think it would have been great. But I think they'll lean heavily on AI if they were to do it in the future.
I’d want to see the like top 5-10 YouTubers I’d watched most through the year, and the like video tag “genres” I watched most and my total YouTube watch time for my account. Then some random bits like most interacted with (likes and comments) video I watched that year and another stat like data used
How often I had to rewatch part of a video (or the entire thing) because I had it playing while I was working on something else and didn't catch anything.
number of hours spent watching
number of videos watched
your top 5(10?) creators
your top genres?
comments you’ve left?
how many new channels you’ve subbed to
Hours watched
Number of videos launched
What content creator I watched the most
How many different creators I saw
It'd be cool to know exactly what type of videos I watched but I don't know how YouTube would detect that considering video genres are ill-defined to say the least.
This inspired me to look WAYYY into my history
Markiplier, Punters Politics, Vlog Brothers, Cinema Therapy, Answer in Progress, Geek & Sundry, EWU Crime stories, Gabi Belle, Jazza, Girl on Film, Isaac Butterfield, Chantal Leonhardt, Big Fat Quiz Channel
total watch time alone might be enough to give me an aneurysm (I know I can go find it in my account information anyways... let me face my demons in my own time...)
May be challenging to do, but the percentages of the types of content I watch. How much of my watch time is educational vs music videos vs TV shows teasers vs game reviews and so on and so forth.
Bro I have ADHD, I have never watched a video more than once or the entire way through unless it fits one of several specific hyperfixations, so I guess An Incorrect Summary of Ultrakill by Max0r.
It turned into a way for YouTube to demonstrate its content to potential advertisers, which resulted in much of the content not being relevant to the average viewer, but “safe” to show to advertisers.
A combination of YouTube staff being out of touch with viewers, and the increasingly wide variety of content on the platform (including content in other languages) made it impossible for them to "get it right".
It does, to some capacity! I found out I'm paying Smii7y's rent! It seems to still be a feature in testing, and only for Premium users in the US afaik, but it'll be revealed soon if I had to guess!
Oh everyone else wants to know normal stuff, I just want to uncover my weird ADHD habits and feel shame over how many crash course videos I open but never watch
i don't know what i'd like but i'm sure Caitlin Doughty would be in it and i wouldn't be able to share it because it'd be all her videos where she mentions cannibalism and it would make things awkward
What I would want to see: average video length, my most watched creators, my top categories, top comment, my average retention across video, most re-watched video, number of videos/creators watched, my new discoveries.
What I'd actually see: the message "you spent way too long online this year"
I'd hope it'd be individual like spotify wrapped, but I hope mine would have hank green in it ❤️.
It'd be interesting to me to know my viewing habits of:
- My most viewed channels (duh)
- Categories I may have joined or left
- Weird one, but my highest contributions to each channel (ads/yt premium)
No idea WTF a "wrapped" is but if it's what I think mine would be Hank Green, John Green and Tasting History With Max Miller. Either that, or it would be the same crap they do when I try to search for something and all I see are my tags for my videos - just my tags. YT is a mess. LOL
A series of shorts that starts with cool backpacking gear, then eventually progresses down an algorithmic rabbit hole about survivalism, conspiracy theories, and trad wives.
If you search Adblock for YouTube in whatever App Store you have you’ll find a pretty decent free one. I don’t even have to open my app to turn them on. If you give it permissions then you can turn them on from your settings app. Android and apple
How much of my life I've wasted on it, with some good data visualization to scare me straight.
Something like "In 2024, you've watched x minutes of short, the same amount of time it would've taken to reach enlightenment if you meditated instead!"
How many times I actually clicked on a video from the YouTube homepage. (I don’t necessarily need to know but I would really like it if YouTube had that data)
there is already multiple youtube wrapped (music and yt gaming but it's kinda hidden), but they kinda suck cuz they just show your top 5 channels watched and that's it
I Would really love to see every video I watched like 5 minutes of but not the whole thing, and how many of those there are. Sorry to all of those people I did that too
Comments
Top creators
Top (rewatched) videos
Top interactions (most commented or liked)
Top newcomers
Top genres, as a whole or make each its own category:
- Top music (videos)
- Top comedy
- Top horror
- Top commentary
- Top news
- etc
Maybe it could more motivated users do to some curating in order to classify, rank, and add their comments... which could be fed back to the creators.
They never did tell me how heavy the axe was.
The algorithm influences what I watch which influences what I like which influences what I watch etc
Like once a year these platforms are like “Hey! It’s your annual reminder that we’re watching everything you do and recording it!”
And we’re all like “aw sweet I should post this for everyone to see online”
- hours/minutes watched
- most rewatched videos
100% seeing mine as just minecraft and pbs science stuff
Something like that.
Also, relationship between content length/type and time of day, day of the week?
Am I more of a rabbit-hole-watcher, or more of add-to-playlists-from-my-subscription-watcher?
Shorts vs normal videos ratio.
most people only watch a video once or twice, so doing anything with videos seems unintuitive.
for a lot of folk youtube is like a search engine, so imagine the strange idea of trying to do a "google wrapped."
Fun answer? The most Youtube tabs you've had open at once. I gotta be at least six.
Trixie & Katya
Ryan Hall Y'all
Vlogbrothers
Leeja Miller
number of videos watched
your top 5(10?) creators
your top genres?
comments you’ve left?
how many new channels you’ve subbed to
Getting a scitube wrapped would be great
Number of videos launched
What content creator I watched the most
How many different creators I saw
It'd be cool to know exactly what type of videos I watched but I don't know how YouTube would detect that considering video genres are ill-defined to say the least.
Markiplier, Punters Politics, Vlog Brothers, Cinema Therapy, Answer in Progress, Geek & Sundry, EWU Crime stories, Gabi Belle, Jazza, Girl on Film, Isaac Butterfield, Chantal Leonhardt, Big Fat Quiz Channel
- Longest I left a video paused but actually finished it
- What video I started the most times w/o ever finishing
- % videos access via YT search vs Google vs link vs suggested
- longest rabbit hole chain of videos
Total watch time would be nice as well.
I know my top channels and stuff just cause I only watch like 5 but I’d like to see the numbers
What I'd actually see: the message "you spent way too long online this year"
It'd be interesting to me to know my viewing habits of:
- My most viewed channels (duh)
- Categories I may have joined or left
- Weird one, but my highest contributions to each channel (ads/yt premium)
https://archive.ph/GnRFW
/s
I have a feeling I know what it is already but still 🙂
ReVanced for phone
SmartTube for tv
Ad blocker on Firefox for PC browser
A little elbow grease and you get a far better experience and customization for free.
total hours/videos watched
top genres
how many comments you’ve left
stuff like that
Something like "In 2024, you've watched x minutes of short, the same amount of time it would've taken to reach enlightenment if you meditated instead!"
and then a bunch of Balkan pop
like, with music there's no proof you're not doing something else whilst you listen, with YouTube (at least w me) i actually watch the video
ppl would find out how much i do nothing LOL
But real ones remember the Youtube Rewinds.
SciShow Kids
Little Bear
Berenstein Bears
Musician friends’ gigs
How-to (fix this thing in an old house) videos