When live streaming on YouTube, you can see your stream's performance. You'll get different metrics depending on whether you're streaming from a phone or an encoder.
From Live Control Room
On desktop
You can check your stream's health and analytics while you're streaming in Live Control Room. From your stream dashboard, you can see:
Stream health
- Stream status: Stream status includes specific error messages with instructions
Real-time analytics
- Concurrent viewers: The number of simultaneous viewers. Peak concurrent is the highest number of viewers during a live stream.
- Duration: How long the stream has lasted.
- Likes: The total number of users that have liked the stream. Likes transfer to the VOD archive of the live stream.
- Chat rate: The number of messages sent in live chat per minute.
- Views: The total number of times that a live stream was viewed while live.
- Average view duration: Estimated average minutes watched per view for a live stream.
Post-stream analytics
When you finish a live stream, there's a quick snapshot of your stream's metrics.
- Views: The total number of times that a live stream was viewed while live.
- New subscribers: The number of users who subscribed to your channel during the stream.
- Total watch time: The total time that the event was played for across all views.
- Peak concurrents: The highest number of views during the stream.
- Duration: The length of time the stream was live.
- Average view duration: Estimated average minutes watched per view for a live stream.
On mobile
Mobile live streams show several metrics while you're live. These metrics include:
Stream health
- Stream status: Health of the stream currently being sent to YouTube from your mobile device. Stream status includes specific error messages with instructions
Real-time analytics
- Concurrent viewers: The number of simultaneous viewers. Peak concurrent is the highest number of viewers during a live stream.
- Duration: How long the stream has lasted.
- Live chat messages: These messages can be turned off or filtered for Super Chat messages. To turn off or filter, tap the button at the centre bottom.
- Likes: The total number of users that have liked the stream. Likes transfer to the VOD archive of the live stream.
Post-stream analytics
When you finish a mobile live stream, there's a quick snapshot of your stream's metrics.
- Playbacks: The number of times that a browser or device started playing the stream.
- New subscribers: The number of users who subscribed to your channel during the stream.
- Total watch time: The total time that the event was played for across all views.
- Peak concurrents: The highest number of views during the stream.
- Duration: The length of time the stream was live.
Avg. watch time: The average time that a viewer watched the stream for.
From YouTube Analytics
In YouTube Analytics, you are able to sort by Live, On demand or Live & on demand.
You'll get Watch time reports for individual videos or for a channel, like regular uploads.
Reports include:
- Watch time
- Audience retention
- Demographics
- Playback locations
- Traffic sources and devices
You can get more info about the data available in the Watch time report.
In Live streaming you can check Peak concurrents and chat messages. The report is available at the video level and metrics are available in YouTube Analytics within minutes after your live stream ends. You can download the data as a CSV file.
Data in YouTube Analytics is based on Video ID. The data is processed and despammed, and it measures different info from what you get in the Live Control Room.
Learn more about Super Chat reporting.