See your live stream’s metrics
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
Mobile live streams show several metrics while you are live. These metrics include:
Stream health
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 center 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 metrics.
- Playbacks: The number of times 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 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.
- Avg. Watch Time: The average time a viewer watched the stream.
- Reactions: The number of reactions and what type of reactions that happened during a stream.
In YouTube Studio App
- 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.
- 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 of hours generated from live streaming from period x to y.
When you stream in both horizontal and vertical formats, your stream metrics are automatically combined in the Live Control Room. You can get metrics for just your vertical stream 24 hours after the stream ends.
To find your vertical stream metrics:
- On your computer, sign in to YouTube Studio.
- From the left menu, click Content.
- Click the Live tab 👁 and then
Select a live stream that ended at least 24 hours ago. - From the left menu, click Analytics 👁 Image
👁 and then
Click Advanced mode on the top right. This will open up the Advanced mode view.- On the left, click the dropdown under “Breakdown” 👁 and then
Select Playback location. - On the left, click the date dropdown 👁 and then
Select a time period longer than the first 24 hours. - Check the box next to Vertical live feed. You will now see metrics for just your vertical stream.
- On the left, click the dropdown under “Breakdown” 👁 and then
From YouTube Analytics
In YouTube Analytics you can sort by Live, On demand, or Live & on demand.
👁 Options to sort data are in the ‘Live & on demand’ dropdown in YouTube Analytics
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.