YouTube Metrics

YouTube

YouTube channel data is organic and some metrics may not be available during the last 2-3 days.Remember that the number of subscribers will only be available from the day the account was connected to Metricool, and it will take approximately 7 days to gather all the metrics from the first connection.

Below, you’ll find all the available metrics for your YouTube channel.

COMMUNITY · DEMOGRAPHICS · REVENUE IN THE PERIOD · PUBLISHED VIDEOS · VIDEOS WITH VIEWS · COMPETITORS

Community

✅ GROWTH

Subscribers: the number of subscribers that the channel has in the selected period. This value is rounded down to three significant figures. For more details about how subscriber counts are rounded, see Revision History or YouTube Help Center.
Video views: total number of video views in the selected period. This data also includes views of videos that are private, unlisted, or deleted.
Revenue: total income in the selected period.
Videos: total number of videos posted. It includes videos that have been hidden.

✅ BALANCE OF SUBSCRIBERS

Gained: Balance of subscribers gained. In this section, all the movements of our subscribers are registered. For instance, if a subscriber unsubscribes and then subscribes again, it would count as two subscribers. This balance is designed to see the response of our community to our publications.
Lost: Balance of lost subscribers. It is measured the same way as Gained subscribers.
Videos: Total videos posted. It includes hidden videos.

✅ DEMOGRAPHICS

Gender, age, viewers by country and traffic source. The information relative to gender and viewers by country can be analyzed in a chart or table. YouTube provides the data for unique viewers.

In the case of countries, this data is based on the IP address of the viewers. In terms of age and gender, they are based on viewers logged in on any device.

It is also important to note that YouTube may display the demographics of a limited group of viewers. The data may not represent the overall composition of your traffic.

Revenue in the period

✅ VIDEOS WITH REVENUE

Date: Video publication date
Total revenue: total video revenue.
Partner revenue: Income earned from the video within the Partner Program.
Ad revenue: Income specifically earned from video advertising.
Impressions: Number of times the ads in the video have been shown to users.
Monetized playbacks: The number of times your video was watched with ads.If your video is viewed 10 times, and 8 of those views contained ads, you would have 10 views and 8 estimated monetized playbacks. More info.

Published videos

This section displays the videos published within the selected period. The data corresponds to the accumulated performance of each video, from its publication date up to yesterday. The period filter only determines which videos are included in the view, not the range of data analyzed.

Video views: The number of times your video has been watched. It includes hidden videos.
Likes: Total number of likes in the selected period.
Dislikes: Total number of dislikes in the selected period.
Comments: Total number of comments in the selected period.
Shares: total number of shares of the videos published in the selected period.
Videos: Total number of videos published in the time frame selected.

✅ LIST OF VIDEOS

Date: Date and time of publication of the videos.
Video Views: Total number of views of the video. (if the data is shown as a negative value, it is because YouTube subtracts views from a channel if it considers that the views are fraudulent, that is, made with bots or automatically).
Watch Time: the total amount of time viewers have watched your videos (minutes)
Avg. views duration: average watch time of your video divided by the total number of video plays (seconds)
Likes: Total number of likes of the video.
Dislikes: Total number of dislikes of the video.
Comments: Total number of comments of the video.
Shares: Total number of times that the video has been shared.

Viewed videos

This section collects data on videos that have generated views in the selected period, regardless of when they were published.

Video views: total number of video views in the selected period.
Likes: total number of likes in the selected period.
Dislikes: total number of dislikes in the selected period.
Comments: total number of comments in the selected period.

✅ LIST OF VIDEOS

Date: date and time of publication of the videos.
Video views: total number of views of the video (if the data is shown in negative, it is because Youtube subtracts views from a channel if it considers that they are fraudulent views made with bots or automatically).
Watch time: Total viewing time of the video.
Avg. views duration: Total playing time of your video divided by the total number of views of the video.
Likes: total number of likes of the video.
Dislikes: total number of dislikes of the video.
Comments: total number of comments on the video.
Shares: total number of times the video has been shared.

Competitors

✅ LIST OF COMPETITORS

Subscriptions: Total number of subscribers of the competitor.
Total views: Total views of the competitor’s videos.
Videos: Total number of videos posted by the competitor.
Likes: Average number of likes received divided by the competitor’s videos published in the analyzed period.
Dislikes: Average number of dislikes received divided by the competitor’s videos published in the analyzed period.
Comments: Average number of comments received divided by the competitor’s videos published in the analyzed period.

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Updated on: 04/11/2025

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