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by elinchrome 3912 days ago
It's shown to increase excitement and therefore engagement.
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It is also shown to decrease the information density (w.r.t. the actual subject matter) of a video. So you have engaged viewers watching a video of less substance... Reevaluate what you are optimizing for.
And here I am, waiting for the video to fully load in another tab so I can skip around to find where it actually shows the product.