I run an entertainment-focused YouTube channel and the single metric I care about right now is total watch-time hours. I’m looking for a YouTube SEO specialist who can turn casual viewers into long-stay audiences through smarter metadata, stronger keyword targeting, and viewer-retention tactics that fit the light-hearted tone of my content. Here’s what I need from you: • A concise audit of my existing videos and channel set-up, highlighting issues that are capping watch time. • A keyword and topic plan that pinpoints phrases my audience is already searching for, plus related queries I can realistically rank on. • Fully optimised titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnail concepts and playlists for my next batch of uploads (and a template I can reuse). • Practical retention strategies—hooks in the first 15 seconds, card and end-screen placement, chapter timing, cross-video linking—that keep viewers around and move them to the next video. • A short analytics checklist so I can track progress against baseline watch-time data once changes go live. If you have a proven record of lifting entertainment channels’ watch hours and know your way around YouTube Studio, TubeBuddy, or vidIQ, I’d love to hear how you’d approach this.