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
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 a live stream was viewed while live.
- Average view duration: Estimated average minutes watched per view for a live stream.
Post-stream analytics
Post-stream analytics
When you finish a live stream, there's a quick snapshot of your stream metrics.
- Views: The total number of times 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 the event was played 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.
- Reactions: The number of reactions and what type of reactions that happened during a stream.
In YouTube Studio
Video-level analytics
- Average Concurrent viewers: The average number of viewers that were simultaneously watching your stream at any one time.
- Peak Concurrent viewers: The maximum number of viewers that were simultaneously watching your stream at any one time.
- Key moments for audience retention: How well different moments of your stream held viewers' attention (located in the key moments for audience retention report)
- Reactions: The number of reactions and what type of reactions that happened during a stream.
- Reminders Set: The total number of reminders that were set by viewers for the selected date range, excluding any reminders that were subsequently removed.
Channel-level analytics
- Average Concurrent viewers: The average number of simultaneous viewers you were able to attract across all of your streams.
- Peak Concurrent viewers: The maximum number of simultaneous viewers you were able to attract across all of your streams.
- Hours streamed: Total number hours generated from live streaming from period x to y.
From YouTube Analytics
In YouTube Analytics you can 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 measures different info than what you get in the Live Control Room.
Learn more about Super Chat Reporting.
Note: Interaction reports and revenue reports aren't available when filtering for live. You'll get this error message: "This data is not available by live/on demand. Please select 'Live & on demand' or switch to a different report."
