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Watch time of sports "highlight" videos on YouTube grew more than 80% in the past year.

Google Data, U.S., Classification as sports videos was based on public data such as headlines, tags, etc., and may not account for every such video available on YouTube, Jan.–Oct. 2016 vs. Jan.–Oct. 2017.

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