Best alternatives to YouTube analytics?

VideoshootTheMessenger

VideoshootTheMessenger

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YouTube's analytics is useful... up to a point. You can get the number of views, performance over time, and geographic info.

But let's say you have a video embedded on a website, linking back to YT; and the same video is shared on Facebook and Twitter; and of course it's on the YT channel. How can I tell -- out of the total views -- where the views are coming from?

Is there a 3rd party tool that does it? Maybe I'm not using YT analytics right? Or that kind of deep dive is impossible?

I'd love to get the community's thoughts on this!

Moderators, feel free to move this post if I put it in the wrong place :)
 
PositivelyBrainwashed said:
Yeah my retention from this site is one of the worst out of all my traffic. Lol makes me not wanna post here
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Whenever I click on a video made by someone from YTTalk I always let it run to the end even if I have lost interest in it. I don't want to mess up anyone's retention time who is serious about YouTube success. I also always let the preroll ad run all the way through as well, but I don't know if that helps the channel or not.
 
Redford1900 said:
Whenever I click on a video made by someone from YTTalk I always let it run to the end even if I have lost interest in it. I don't want to mess up anyone's retention time who is serious about YouTube success. I also always let the preroll ad run all the way through as well, but I don't know if that helps the channel or not.
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That's awesome :) I do the same thing. Once you've been in the creator seat you know how hard it is![DOUBLEPOST=1472224721,1472224643][/DOUBLEPOST]
Sevrax said:
I recomend you vidIQ, it also has an extension for chrome wich is very useful
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I'll look in vidIQ thanks! I'd rather use a tool instead of a vendor, but we'll see... The main thing is getting the info[DOUBLEPOST=1472225118][/DOUBLEPOST]
Redford1900 said:
Try this. In analytics isolate the video in question then click analytics > traffic sources > external. When I do that I see views from Facebook, Twitter, even YTalk.com.

Yikes the retention on my video from YTTalk was terrible. Ouch!
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Thanks for the steps, Redford1900! Yeeshhh... they really bury that in the options. I'll play around with this.

One issue is we have a website, and a separate mobile website (we're working on a responsive redesign), and YouTube just throws back the parent url...

Hopefully there is a way to dig deeper, I will try!
 
You can do that in Analytics. You click on Traffic sources->External and you'll see where the views come from outside YouTube. You can basically find anything in Analytics.
 
Redford1900 said:
Try this. In analytics isolate the video in question then click analytics > traffic sources > external. When I do that I see views from Facebook, Twitter, even YTalk.com.

Yikes the retention on my video from YTTalk was terrible. Ouch!
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What?
Checking now...

ok... 0.2% from here out of 0.1% external traffic....
Come to think of it, 0.1% external is nothing. Maybe time to start social media again.
 
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