YouTubeYouTube views in the MacBook notch
Views are the count YouTube Analytics reports for the channel over the window, and they are bucketed in Pacific Time whatever your Mac is set to.
The timezone is not yours
YouTube Analytics buckets every daily figure in America/Los_Angeles. A view at nine in the evening in London lands on the previous Pacific day. If your notch shows a number that disagrees with your sense of when the spike happened by one day, this is why, and it is not something the widget can correct without reporting a figure YouTube would not confirm.
What counts as a view
A view is a playback that YouTube considers legitimate. Its systems discard automated and repeated playback before the number reaches the Analytics API, and that validation lags: a figure for the last day or two can settle downwards after the fact. Treat the most recent bucket as provisional.
Views do not distinguish between a viewer who watched three seconds and one who watched the whole thing. Put watch time or average view duration beside this widget and you can tell those two apart.
What YouTube views means, exactly
YouTube Analytics views for the channel in the window. YouTube's day boundaries are Pacific Time, so a day here can straddle two of yours.
A whole number.
How the widget behaves
- Buckets
- daily, weekly and monthly
- Shape
- A figure with a sparkline
- Against last period
- Yes
- Fetched from
- youtubeanalytics.googleapis.com, www.googleapis.com, oauth2.googleapis.com
Questions
- How is YouTube views calculated?
- YouTube Analytics views for the channel in the window. YouTube's day boundaries are Pacific Time, so a day here can straddle two of yours. Notch Metrics reports that number, unchanged, in the MacBook notch.
- Can I see YouTube views over time?
- Yes. YouTube views is bucketed daily, weekly and monthly, so the widget carries a sparkline alongside the headline figure, and a comparison against the previous window.
- What unit is YouTube views in?
- A whole number.
- What does it cost to put YouTube views in the notch?
- $9 a month, or $49 a year, with every connector included and no per-integration charge. The seven-day trial needs no card, so you can see your own views before deciding.