Understand your YouTube audience

The Audience tab in YouTube Analytics gives you an overview of who's watching your YouTube videos, as well as insights on their demographics. It provides a quick snapshot of key metrics like returning viewers, unique viewers and subscribers.

Note: Some data, such as geography, traffic sources or gender, may be limited in YouTube Analytics.

View your Audience reports

YouTube Android app

  1. Open the YouTube app .
  2. Tap your profile picture and then View channel.
  3. From the middle menu, tap Analytics  to view a brief summary of your channel performance.

YouTube Studio app for Android

  1. Open the YouTube Studio app .
  2. From the bottom menu, tap Analytics .
  3. From the top menu, tap Audience.

When your viewers are on YouTube

This report shows you when your viewers were online across YouTube in the past 28 days. You can use it to help build your community, understand when to schedule a Premiere or to plan your next live stream.

Age

This report shows you which age ranges are adding most to your watch time.

Gender

This report shows you the gender distribution of your audience.

Geography

This report shows you which geographies have the most watch time for your channel.

Top subtitle/CC languages

This report shows your channel's audience by subtitled language.

Watch time from subscribers

This report tells you what percentage of your watch time comes from subscribers and viewers who aren't subscribed.

What your audience watches

This report shows you what other videos, Shorts, live streams and podcasts your viewers have watched outside your channel over the past seven days. You can use it to find topics for new videos and titles. You can also use the info for thumbnail ideas and collaboration opportunities. If you have an Official Artist Channel, you won't see videos where you're the primary artist, even if the video is outside your Official Artist Channel.

Channels that your audience watches

This report shows you what other channels your viewers consistently watched outside your channel over the past 28 days. You can use it to find out what channels your viewers are interested in and for collaboration opportunities.

Formats that your viewers watch on YouTube

This report shows you what other types of formats people have watched in the past 28 days. The formats could either be videos, Shorts or live streams. You can use this to see what formats people are watching the most to adapt your content to that format.

Get tips for learning who your viewers are and what they are watching.

Metrics to know

Returning viewers The number of viewers who already watched your channel and returned to watch in the selected time period.
New viewers The number of viewers that watched your channel for the first time in the selected time period. Viewers who watch from a private browser, deleted their watch history or haven't watched your channel in over a year are considered new viewers.
Unique viewers Estimated number of viewers that watched your content within the selected date range.
Subscribers The number of viewers who have subscribed to your channel.
Watch time (hours) The amount of time that viewers have watched your video for.
Views The number of legitimate views for your channels or videos.

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