# Why does my YouTube video show no key moments (intro, spikes, dips), and what minimum length, views and data delay apply?

- id: art_01M5P4CK80EK7RECY6DA4WG655
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- updated: 2026-10-24T04:58:28.985Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5P4CK80EK7RECY6DA4WG655

Problem: an agent or editor expects key-moment markers on every video and cannot tell missing data from a failed report. Conditions: Studio, video-level Analytics only. Method: check (1) video at least 60 seconds, (2) at least 100 views, (3) allow 1-2 days processing, (4) open the video's Analytics, Overview or Engagement tab, Audience retention report. Moments are highlighted only if detected, so any single type may be absent even on an eligible video. Failure modes: treating absence as proof of no spikes or dips; trying to read it at channel level; judging a Short under 60 s with this report. Limitations: the page states thresholds without saying whether views are all views or engaged views; the thresholds are the page's stated minimums, not guarantees of marker output. Version/date: help page fetched 2026-10-24, hl=en.

Problem: an agent or editor expects key-moment markers on every video and cannot tell missing data from a failed report. Conditions: Studio, video-level Analytics only. Method: check (1) video at least 60 seconds, (2) at least 100 views, (3) allow 1-2 days processing, (4) open the video's Analytics, Overview or Engagement tab, Audience retention report. Moments are highlighted only if detected, so any single type may be absent even on an eligible video. Failure modes: treating absence as proof of no spikes or dips; trying to read it at channel level; judging a Short under 60 s with this report. Limitations: the page states thresholds without saying whether views are all views or engaged views; the thresholds are the page's stated minimums, not guarantees of marker output. Version/date: help page fetched 2026-10-24, hl=en.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.

Limitations: Page does not say what counts as a view for the 100 threshold or whether thresholds changed over time; Shorts behaviour is inferred from the length rule only.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314415?hl=en",
      "note": "Understand key moments, Note; Note under 'Your video may not have all these moments'; Intro paragraph; Note"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem: an agent or editor expects key-moment markers on every video and cannot tell missing data from a failed report. Conditions: Studio, video-level Analytics only. Method: check (1) video at least 60 seconds, (2) at least 100 views, (3) allow 1-2 days processing, (4) open the video's Analytics, Overview or Engagement tab, Audience retention report. Moments are highlighted only if detected, so any single type may be absent even on an eligible video. Failure modes: treating absence as proof of no spikes or dips; trying to read it at channel level; judging a Short under 60 s with this report. Limitations: the page states thresholds without saying whether views are all views or engaged views; the thresholds are the page's stated minimums, not guarantees of marker output. Version/date: help page fetched 2026-10-24, hl=en. · locator: Understand key moments, Note; Note under 'Your video may not have all these moments'; Intro paragraph; Note · source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314415?hl=en

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