Understand your YouTube engagement

The Engagement tab in YouTube Analytics gives you an understanding of how viewers interact with your content. It provides a quick snapshot of key metrics like watch time (hours) and average view duration. Learn more about how engagement metrics are counted.

View your Engagement reports

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left Menu, select Content .
  3. On the selected video, select Analytics .
  4. From the top menu, select Engagement.

Engagement reports

Audience retention

The key moments for audience retention report shows how well different moments of your video held viewers' attention. You can also use typical retention to compare your 10 latest videos of similar length.

Likes vs. dislikes

The Likes (vs. dislikes) report summarizes how many viewers liked and disliked your videos. You can add the Likes (vs. dislikes) metric with the expanded analytics report at the channel level.

End screen element click rate

The End screen element click rate report shows you how often viewers clicked each end screen element in your video. This report is only available after you’ve clicked into a specific video.

Top remixed

This report shows your content that has been remixed to make Shorts. The report also shows the number of times your content has been remixed and the number of remix views. To get more detailed info about remixes, click or tap SEE MORE.

FAQ

Metrics to know

Average view duration

Average minutes watched among those who stayed to watch.

For Shorts, this is calculated from engaged views and their corresponding watch time.

Watch time (hours)

The amount of time viewers have watched your video.

Views

The number of legitimate views for your channels or videos.

YouTube has changed how views are counted on Shorts. Learn about Shorts view count changes.

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