You can find analytics for YouTube through their internal service, YouTube analytics. It’s a good place to start when measuring your YouTube performance. But if you want more in-depth and informative data, you’ll need an external social media analytics tool, like Sotrender.

Where can I find YouTube Analytics?

You can find YouTube Analytics by going to this address: http://www.youtube.com/analytics. Or if you want to access it from YouTube, you can do the following:

  • Sign in to your YouTube account.
  • Click on your account icon, then click ‘Creator Studio’.
  • On the left side, click ‘Analytics’.

When you enter, you’ll be greeted with the Overview report, a summary of your YouTube performance. Here you’ll find basic data concerning these metrics:

  • Performance metrics, including watch time, views, and earnings (if applicable) for your content.
  • Engagement metrics, including metrics such as likes, dislikes, comments, shares, and favorites.
  • Top 10 content displays your top 10 pieces of content for your channel.
  • Demographic info about your viewers.
  • Discovery, which displays the metrics for top playback locations and top traffic sources by watch time.

YouTube Analytics offers a lot to it’s users, and is a great place to start understanding how you are performing. But if you want more depth and tips on how to improve, try using Sotrender.

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Read also:
  1. How do I check the results of my activities on YouTube?
  2. What YouTube metrics should I care about?
  3. How do I measure the effects of my ads on YouTube?

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Magdalena Poprawa

Content Marketer

Law and communication design student, in love with social media law, coffee and Disney movies.