Glossary
Completion rate
The share of views that reach the end of a short video. Useful for comparing hooks and lengths inside a niche. A high completion on a 7-second clip is not the same achievement as on a 45-second lesson.
In a HypeNest pass
After a HypeNest publish, completion rate tells you whether the payoff matched the hook. If people stay for the open and leave mid-tip, recut length — do not just generate more twins of the same opening.
FAQ
- Should I always shorten clips to raise completion?
- Only if the extra seconds are empty. Cutting the payoff to game the rate trains the audience to expect nothing.
- Is completion the same as clip retention rate?
- Completion is the end-point. Retention rate usually means the whole curve. Use both; do not collapse them into one vanity number.
Try the workflow
Draft captioned short clips from one long video, review every cut, then publish to YouTube and TikTok.
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