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How many days after ordering a video edit was due, 6,358 orders — **How many days after ordering each edit was due**Completed standalone orders placed Jan 2023 to Sep 2026, n = 6,358. Median: 6 days.From Video Editing Outsourcing Benchmarks

Add-ons included with long-form video edits, 3,913 orders — **What clients add to a long-form video edit**Share of the 3,913 orders with a long-form edit, Jan 2023 to Sep 2026. Captions are a floor: descriptions under-record them.From Video Editing Outsourcing Benchmarks

Raw footage per video edit order line, 5,239 lines — **Raw footage recorded per order line**Order lines with a recorded footage length, n = 5,239 (68.5% of lines). Median: 5 minutes.From Video Editing Outsourcing Benchmarks

Repeat video editing clients: 24.7% of clients, 59.8% of orders — **Repeat clients are a quarter of clients and most of the orders**3,717 clients, Jan 2023 to Sep 2026.From Video Editing Outsourcing Benchmarks

Share of video editing clients who ordered again, by first order — **Which first orders bring clients back**Share who ordered again on a later date, by the client's first order, among 3,473 clients with 180+ days to return. All of them: 24.6%.From Video Editing Outsourcing Benchmarks

Law firms making marketing video, ABA Legal Technology Survey, 2019 to 2024 — **Law firms making marketing video, ABA Legal Technology Survey**Share of responding lawyers in private practice. The 2019 to 2021 question (lighter bars, marked *) asked whether the firm uses video in its marketing; from 2022 it asks whether the firm produces video to help market the practice, so the two periods are not strictly comparable.From Legal Video Marketing Statistics

Annual wage of U.S. special effects artists and animators by percentile, May 2025 — **What U.S. special effects artists and animators earn**Annual wage by percentile, May 2025, from BLS OEWS. Wage and salary workers in all industries (SOC 27-1014); the self-employed, who hold most of these jobs, are not surveyed.From Motion Graphics Statistics

YouTube Shorts average daily views, 2021 to 2025 — **YouTube Shorts average daily views, as YouTube stated them**Billions of views per day. The June 2025 figure (lighter bar) counts a view the moment a Short starts to play, the method YouTube adopted on March 31, 2025, so it is not directly comparable with the earlier five.From Short-Form Video Statistics

YouTube advertising revenue reported by Alphabet, 2023 to 2025 — **YouTube advertising revenue, 2023 to 2025, as Alphabet reported it**Millions of U.S. dollars, worldwide, fiscal years ended December 31. Alphabet's "YouTube ads" line excludes YouTube subscriptions, and all three years come from one table in the same Form 10-K, so they are directly comparable.From Video Advertising Statistics

Annual wages of U.S. film and video editors, May 2025 — **What U.S. film and video editors earn a year**Annual wages of salaried film and video editors in May 2025, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 10% earn less than the 10th percentile and 10% earn more than the 90th. The grey bar is the median for all U.S. occupations in the same survey.From Video Editing Statistics

Share of Americans 12+ who listen to or watch podcasts, and who do both, The Infinite Dial 2026 — **Americans who listen to or watch podcasts, and who do both**Share of Americans age 12 and older, by how recently they last consumed a podcast, from The Infinite Dial 2026 by Edison Research at SSRS (surveyed January 2026). People who both listened and watched are part of everyone who listened or watched.From Video Podcast Statistics

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