Our Help Center article about "how video views are counted" has info that may answer your question: https://goo.gl/LGprbX . Hope this helps clarify.
@TeamYouTube With the 10 sec skipping option, how is watch time counted? Like if I watch 10 secs of a 1 minute video and then skip 5 times, I’d only watch 10s in real time. But I finished the video anyway, so would YouTube count the watch time as 10s or 60s?
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It’s not about view counts, Im asking about watch time, especially with the 10s skipping thing involved. I’ve googled and found nothing related to this matter
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