Google Dumps Video Responses From YouTube Due To Dismal .0004% Click-Through Rate

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McLovin

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Google is ditching video responses from its video sharing site on September 12, encouraging users to fall back on hashtags and descriptions to surface videos in searches. The cited reason is a minuscule .0004% click-through rate on video responses submitted by users.

To illustrate, says the YouTube team, only four out of every 1 million users bothered to click on those little boxes underneath the main video. Efforts will theoretically go into providing new and different tools to increase fan engagement for creators.

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Video Responses hardly get any priority, unless user-click. At the end of any video, related videos are shown. No wonder the % is that low.
 
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