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I'm interested in doing a larger write up on a trend I've noticed on my channel but wanted to ask a community before proceeding. Has anyone encountered situations where your Videos are being pushed to Suggested Video categories, but they aren't counting as impressions? On several of my videos with high Suggested Video pushes, I encounter views that are say they from videos that show they have no impressions. It will show watch time (15-30mins), a view count, ect but no impressions for Suggested Video.

When this happens watch time is counted in the videos statistics, but not the views, which results in a lower CTR rate. In my most recent video all of my Suggested Video views were shown as having no impressions which resulted in a CTR of 0.3% instead of 3.7% based on the total views divide by the total impressions shown on other pages.

Some of these views are from weeks ago, so I don't think it's just the system waiting to check the views validity, they should have been removed otherwise. They just left on my stats page in a wonky state, sometimes full watched videos, that get counted against my displayed stats.

Maybe it's a system I'm missing so; I'm asking anyone that knows why YT does this.

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I've been spending so much time watching and rewatching my videos in order to timestamp my gaming Walkthrough how-to videos... but in my last series, i didnt have time to timestamp at all...and somehow they exploded comparatively.

I do things my own way on my channel and Im not trying to follow trends or change my channel. but... this just confuses me. Anyone else notice timestamps not helping viewship (and possibly the opposite)?