YouTube Stats for your videos

In the kinda cool department, google has tied you tube video statistics to their analytics tool to give people a simple overview of what and where their videos are being watched. Do you know what country you are popular in? Now you know.

These are generic statistics, which is good, but not perfect, and of course those folks who are really interested in stats will always find something wrong with anything given to someone free. That is part of the fun, the whining that goes along with it.

Today we’re taking our first step towards answering these questions with YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account — users, partners, and advertisers — to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload. For example, uploaders an see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. You can also delve deeper into the lifecycle of your videos, like how long it takes for a video to become popular, and what happens to video views as popularity peaks. For now, you can find currently available metrics by clicking under the “About this Video” button under My account > Videos, Favorites, Playlists > Manage my Videos. Source: Google Blog

Not a bad idea, something that I didn’t know I wanted, and now that I have it, I don’t want to give it up. While google is still on its slide to be the “evil company”, things like this just make you stop for a moment and think that maybe things are not all that dark.

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