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by jamesfinlayson 61 days ago
Agreed - I've never followed YouTube that closely but apparently there was a time where everyone thought that YouTube favoured videos that were around 10 minutes in length... so everyone padded their short videos to 10 minutes.
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It wasn't about favoring them. Videos needed to be 10 minutes long to get mid-roll ads.