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Deep Field — Ep. 14

A four-camera interview show that was losing half its audience before the first ad break.

Deep FieldPodcast48:124K · Multicam
+38%
Average view duration
3:104:22
Uploads per month
28
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Clips shipped per episode
06

The problem

Episodes ran 70 minutes with a nine-minute preamble. The team shot well but cut chronologically, so the strongest moment of every episode landed after most viewers had already left.

What we did

We restructured to a cold-open format: the sharpest 40 seconds of the conversation runs first, then titles. Multicam switching moved to reaction-driven rather than speaker-driven, and we built a locked template so every episode ships the same way.

Raw versus final

Deep Field — Ep. 14Caparison Studio
…and that's the part nobody tells you about deep-sky imaging.
REC
A001_C014 · 01:14:22:08LOG · NO LUT
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Audience retention

Share of viewers still watching, across the length of the video.

BeforeAfter our cut
0%25%50%75%100%StartHalfwayEndAfterBefore

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ThroughBeforeAfter
0%100%100%
10%72%88%
20%55%78%
30%44%70%
40%37%64%
50%31%58%
60%27%53%
70%24%49%
80%21%45%
90%19%42%
100%17%39%

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