What do people want/need/prefer?
I’ve always wondered what’s the best thing to write for the video descriptions, often playing it safe and ending up with longish descriptions, from concept, making-of, audio background, technical information, etc.
How many of you really read the descriptions that are put up, even if it’s over 1000 words? Is there a preferred size? Too little information is bad of course but would there be cases of too much information until people just skip the whole thing?
Do people want the lyrics posted (where applicable)? Do they read it?
Do people want to know a detailed second-by-second breakdown highlight of the video from the creator’s perspective so that all the highlights/references created by the creator is not lost/go over their head? Overkill? Or should it be more interesting to both the creator and the viewer to discover them by themselves at the risk that certain elements might be missed by the audience?
Feel free to post some examples (links) of video description pages that you’ve might have liked or thought was well written.



