What is the length of a continuously replayed part of video?

As we mentioned in our previous post, we filter out continuously replayed segments (views) shorter than a magic length. So let us talk a bit about this magic length.

We are monitoring which part of video is being played. Each time you seek in video, click on a slide or follow a search result, you start to replay a new segment of video.

Now, please take a look at the following figure:

As you can see, there are 4 segments. First, the user started to watch the video from the beginning. After a while, he found it probably boring, so he jumped a little bit further. Then, he went through slides and found one interesting slide, so he clicked on it and jumped into the last quarter of the video. Finally, an interesting keyword came to his mind, so he searched for it and found an occurrence of the keyword in this video. He jumped to that part of the video where the keyword was spoken and watched for a while.

We monitor such events. When we sum up all segments and plot a histogram out of them, we get a graph like the following one:

4 reasons why you should record your event

Probably you are asking yourself: "Should I record the event?" My answer to this question is: "Yes, you should." But it depends on your audience and type of the event, of course. Here are four reasons which can help you decide:

• The participants. Especially if there are many interesting speakers with a lot of information to tell. I do not know how good your memory is, but I appreciate the possibility of recalling important information several months later. Does your event have sessions running in parallel? Do not hesitate and record the event. Deciding which session to visit is stressful for participants. They are much more relaxed and enjoy your event bearing in mind that they do not miss anything important. They can also do much more networking "during" the talks. And networking is the core of your event.

We squeeze value out of your conference

I made a short video about the SuperLectures.com service. And where is the best place to present the video recording of my presentation? Youtube? Vimeo? No. SuperLectures! So enjoy my three minute pitch of our service with live demonstration.

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