Boost YouTube Watch Time

Job ID: 40367959

Budget: ₹12,500 – ₹37,500 INR

I run an entertainment-focused YouTube channel and the single metric I care about right now is total watch-time hours. I’m looking for a YouTube SEO specialist who can turn casual viewers into long-stay audiences through smarter metadata, stronger keyword targeting, and viewer-retention tactics that fit the light-hearted tone of my content.

Here’s what I need from you:
• A concise audit of my existing videos and channel set-up, highlighting issues that are capping watch time.
• A keyword and topic plan that pinpoints phrases my audience is already searching for, plus related queries I can realistically rank on.
• Fully optimised titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnail concepts and playlists for my next batch of uploads (and a template I can reuse).
• Practical retention strategies—hooks in the first 15 seconds, card and end-screen placement, chapter timing, cross-video linking—that keep viewers around and move them to the next video.
• A short analytics checklist so I can track progress against baseline watch-time data once changes go live.

If you have a proven record of lifting entertainment channels’ watch hours and know your way around YouTube Studio, TubeBuddy, or vidIQ, I’d love to hear how you’d approach this.