{"id":103291,"date":"2023-05-22T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=103291"},"modified":"2023-05-25T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:15:34","slug":"how-to-understand-youtube-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-understand-youtube-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Understand YouTube Analytics &#038; Gauge Your Videos&#8217; Value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you know your videos are really delivering the value you intended? Do YouTube analytics overwhelm you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to have a successful YouTube channel, you need to understand the metrics for your videos. In <em>YouTube Secrets<\/em>, prominent YouTubers Benji Travis and Sean Cannell help you decipher YouTube\u2019s algorithms and leverage them for ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-understand-anything-deeply\/\">how to understand<\/a> YouTube analytics and make use of their insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-understand-youtube-analytics\">How to Understand YouTube Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to keeping an eye on the subjective feedback you get from your viewers, Travis and Cannell say you need to know how to understand YouTube analytics. They identify a few key metrics that can help you assess how viewers are reacting to your videos and channel. (You can access these metrics from the \u201cAnalytics\u201d tab of your channel\u2019s \u201cStudio\u201d page.) They assert that these metrics are also the ones that most affect how YouTube\u2019s algorithms will rank your videos in search results and recommendations, so you want these metrics to be as high as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CTR stands for \u201cclick-through rate.\u201d<\/strong> It represents how often users click on your video when they see the video thumbnail. To maximize this, make sure your video title and thumbnail image clearly identify the value viewers can expect to get from the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AVD stands for \u201caverage view duration.\u201d<\/strong> It\u2019s the average amount of time viewers spend watching a given video before browsing to something else. The time that a viewer is willing to spend on a given video is a good measure of how engaging they find that video. Following the authors\u2019 advice on how to make videos should help to make your videos engaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>APV stands for \u201caverage percentage viewed.\u201d<\/strong> This is the same as average view duration, except that it\u2019s expressed as a percentage of the video\u2019s length instead of the amount of time spent watching it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AVPV stands for \u201caverage views per viewer.\u201d<\/strong> It\u2019s the average number of videos on your channel that someone watches in a row before going to another channel. How many of your videos people watch in a row provides a measure of how well your <em>channel<\/em> is engaging your audience, and how much they\u2019re likely to want <em>more<\/em> of your content when they discover you. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-more-is-less\/\">Maximizing<\/a> this metric is one of the reasons the authors recommend ending each of your videos by recommending another video, as we discussed earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Choosing Good Metrics<\/strong><br><br>The metrics that Travis and Cannell recommend using represent another specific application of more general business principles. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-lean-startup\/1-page-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Lean Startup<\/em><\/a>, Ries discusses how to choose the right metrics for your company. His discussion helps explain <em>why<\/em> the four quantities that Travis and Cannell selected are good metrics for a YouTube business.<br><br>Ries\u2019s first rule for choosing good metrics is to <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-lean-startup\/chapter-7#avoiding-vanity-metrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoid \u201cvanity metrics\u201d<\/a> that inevitably go up over time and don\u2019t really tell you much about how well your business is performing. In the case of a YouTube channel, the total number of videos you\u2019ve posted or the total number of views your channel has gotten are examples of vanity metrics.<br><br>Ries\u2019s second rule is to <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-lean-startup\/chapter-7#cohort-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use \u201ccohort metrics\u201d<\/a> rather than aggregate metrics when possible. Cohort metrics divide up users into groups based on when they became users and track the behavior of each group to give you a more accurate picture of how people are reacting to your product. For example, suppose a lot of people sign up for your service because you\u2019ve got good marketing, but then leave shortly thereafter because you\u2019re not delivering on your marketing promises. Cohort metrics would make this trend obvious, alerting you to the problem. But if you just track your total number of users over time, that might hide the trend, because new people joining would make up for the ones leaving, creating an illusion of slow, steady growth.<br><br>The metrics that Travis and Cannell recommend work a lot like cohort metrics. They track individual users and individual instances instead of groups and time periods, but they give you real-time information about how your viewers are reacting throughout the user-experience journey: CTR measures how well you\u2019re attracting people to click on your videos, AVD and APV measure how long the ones who click stay engaged on a particular video, and AVPV measures how long they engage with your channel. So they give you the same kind of information that cohort metrics would.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know your videos are really delivering the value you intended? Do YouTube analytics overwhelm you? If you want to have a successful YouTube channel, you need to understand the metrics for your videos. In YouTube Secrets, prominent YouTubers Benji Travis and Sean Cannell help you decipher YouTube\u2019s algorithms and leverage them for ranking. 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