Notatki z terenuze zmierzonej biblioteki
Czego nauczyły nas zmierzone filmy
Oceniamy filmy na YouTube pod kątem tego, ile z czasu trwania faktycznie coś daje. Oto wzorce, które się ujawniły, gdy zebrało się ich wystarczająco dużo, by je liczyć.
Mediana zbędnych treści 36% mediana początku przydatnej części 0:47 przeliczono ponownie 19 Oct 2026
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Artykuł26 sie 20265 min
How to find advanced material when everything YouTube recommends is beginner-level
Search tricks and channel patterns that reliably surface advanced material, and why the ordinary search results skew introductory in the first place.
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Artykuł26 sie 20265 min
How to evaluate a YouTube channel before you subscribe
Three channel-level signals that predict whether a creator is worth following, separate from whether any single video of theirs was good.
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Raport danych26 sie 20265 min
Which subjects are worth your time: measured value across twenty subjects
Science scores highest of twenty measured subjects at 66.9; travel lowest at 38.4. The same subjects also carry the least padding and the most honest titles.
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Raport danych26 sie 20265 min
How long is a lesson, really: runtime measured across twenty subjects
Median runtime runs from 18:16 in history to 9:30 in productivity, nearly two to one. It has almost no relationship to which subjects score highest on value.
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Raport danych26 sie 20265 min
Do YouTube titles tell the truth? Honesty measured across twenty subjects
Average title honesty is 81 out of 100, from 87 in science down to 73 in travel. The same subjects that oversell titles also carry the most padding.
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Raport danych25 sie 20267 min
The useful part of the median measured video starts at 1:02
Across the videos we have measured the useful part starts at 1:02, and one in ten makes you wait past 3:47. Here is how that splits across twenty subjects.
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Raport danych25 sie 20267 min
We measured the padding again, on a larger library. The number has not moved.
A second padding census, on a larger set of measured videos. The median is still 40%, the set has grown by three quarters, and the distribution barely moved.
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Raport danych25 sie 20267 min
We measured twenty subjects. Three percent of the videos were advanced.
Three percent of the videos we measured were pitched above intermediate. Here is which subjects have none at all, and the one signal that finds the rest.
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Raport danych25 sie 20267 min
One in five measured videos was not worth the time it asked for
One in five measured videos was not worth its runtime. The share runs from 5% in science to 64% in travel, and the title predicts it before you click.
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Artykuł19 sie 20265 min
Why YouTube videos feel three times longer than they need to be
We measured the padding across a library of explanatory videos. It is not the sponsor segment, and it is not where most people think it is.
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Artykuł18 sie 20265 min
What "value density" means, and how we measure it
The three numbers Gistil puts on a video, what each one is actually claiming, and the places where they do not apply.
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Raport danych17 sie 20266 min
We measured YouTube across fifteen categories. This is how much of it was filler.
A padding census across fifteen categories: the median video is 40% structure, and the long ones are the least padded, not the most.