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Over the past year, watch time on YouTube of episode and movie recaps has more increased 50%.

Google Data, U.S., Entertainment videos with "summary," "recap," or "review" in their title. Classification as entertainment videos was based on public data such as headlines, tags, etc., and may not account for every such video available on YouTube, Jan. 2017 vs Jan. 2018.

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