Do YT analytics get recorded from viewing your own videos?

Jordan Pike

Jordan Pike

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I've just been wondering if the analytics on my videos get effected from me viewing my own videos. For example, I see my views going up when I upload a fresh video and I have it set to private, and I click into it a few times to make sure my annotations are all set correctly, etc. But the stat I'm really curious about is audience retention and average view length. I click into my videos quite a bit to look over things and respond to comments, but I don't actually let the video play for more than a second or two. I'm just worried this is slaughtering my average view time and audience retention rates. Anyone know about this?
 
2 options for responding to comments other than clicking your own video over and over...
1) Do you have a smart phone or tablet? You can download the creator studio and reply to comments there.
2) Another option is under the "community" tab in the youtube creator studio in your web browser. There's an area for comments there,

As to your specific question, I don't know. I have had videos privatized for days and weeks before and analytics gave me averages for the watch times and viewer durations when I added annotations and captions :/
So, maybe.
 
Everything the previous poster said, yes it counts your own views. You should use the creator studio app or or the creator studio on a web browser to reply to comments.
 
Political Junkie News said:
2 options for responding to comments other than clicking your own video over and over...
1) Do you have a smart phone or tablet? You can download the creator studio and reply to comments there.
2) Another option is under the "community" tab in the youtube creator studio in your web browser. There's an area for comments there,

As to your specific question, I don't know. I have had videos privatized for days and weeks before and analytics gave me averages for the watch times and viewer durations when I added annotations and captions :/
So, maybe.
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Awesome. I wasn't aware of the creator studio mobile app. That's really cool. And as far as replying to comments in the normal creator studio, I'd kind of forgotten about that. Thanks so much!
 
From the information that I've gathered, it does count as views and into your analytics but due to YouTube algorithm it will eventually purge those views anyway so it doesn't matter. Not sure if this is entirely correct though. Either way I still use the "community tab" to reply to any comments just in case :)
 
Like chris and the other said yeah they are counted towards the analytics, but I noticed that every few days happens that some of my videos lose views so I think that youtube tries to kill your own videos to make everything fair but I don't know if that is applied also to the other stats so the final answer is who knows.
Also it's better replying to comments without opening the video page for being safe.
 
I was wondering about this last night as well.

If you want to check certain analytics on a video there is no way around it.

For example when checking the audience retention tab your video starts playing automatically. I always pause it straight away as well. But I go back and forth looking at different information and have to pause it each time.

I think it probably does get logged as somebody watching for 0:03 seconds.

And of course you can check some info on the creator studio app but not as detailed looking at peaks and where people started losing interest in a video etc.
 
good points. not much more to point out other than that you can respond to comments under "community" within the video manager. that way you don't have to click on your own video for a sec or two to respond to comments.
 
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