What YouTube video title length gets the MOST views? (42,000+ videos analyzed)

I analyzed more than 42,000 videos across 500 channels in the niche of filmmaking, cinematography, videography, video production, video editing, and so on, to see what I could learn about optimizing video title length for YouTube, because I was interested in how to title YouTube videos, and whether certain title lengths were likely to result in getting more views for my videos.

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[MillennialMeg]

Thank you so much! My brain does NOT work like this, but I’m so grateful for people who share these type of analytics because it’s incredibly useful ❤️

[whathappensnext]

The amount of work you put into this videos is incredible. There are so many people out there that will give advice by guessing or something that they've read when they have no idea if it's true or not.

I loved how you answered this question by researching the data.

You rock! Thank you for the hard work. This video alone it's worth subscribing!!

[SlowColt]

Thank you for putting in this vast amount of effort to figure this out so we didn't have to. As a small content creator trying to grow my audience, channels like yours really help me. You definitely deserve more credit. Subscribed !!

[juicybossfights]

watched this video month ago. very useful. but i forgot the stats so i came back to watch it again. very useful again lol thanks 😅

[namibarden]

Thank you for sharing your technical insight!

[Steph_davis]

Extra points for writing your own software 🤯

[stevedowning]

Amazing work sir. I feel like you have taken one for the team with this effort

[ReptilesandResearch]

Fantastic video im always dying to put the latin names of species in brackets after the common name in my titles because thats drilled into me from writing papers, im glad the results you found means it doesnt matter, great video!

[CosmologySpace]

Thanks for your study. You are really hard working man

[KellyPKramer]

One other parameter we don't know is do the longer titles show up in search while the shorter titles are watched because those are catchy...or if that even plays in this at all.
But...love this video...normally when I see a title I look at age and view count, think media was below you but higher view count and yet I still watched yours...and now subscribed...thanks

[blooddustbeers]

Well done! Precise, just enough nerdy, and very well articulated! Now I’m gonna go right a title that doesn’t suck as bad as it could have.

[BeautifulRelaxationVideos]

Thank you for the valuable information. I just subscribed!

[mrjuliusmars]

Thanks for the video james! Were uploading our longest title to date so hope it doesn't affect us. We've been scared to go over 55 characters ;)

[gigscenes]

Really interesting, keep up the great work, love your channel.

[ArkyonVeil]

This is an interesting study. I am somewhat curious as to what Thumbnails affect however, given they cover far more screen space than the title. It would be rather difficult to measure them though I imagine.

[SwankGuide]

Thanks for doing the math - so many people give you opinions that sound like fact - really appreciate when there's rigor involved.

[Postdisclosureworld]

This is brilliant. Concrete evidence to make the case. I worry about titles getting cut off in the search, though. But it doesn't seem to matter according to your findings.

[LeadGraffiti]

That second chart was a real surprise. Strangely absolute.

[felicityfilms]

most useful video about title length all over youtube

[dmtmediabrothers]

Ok thr a7siii video got me to come back

As soon as i heard you code too? Subbed.