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YouTube Playback Location

Watch Time by Playback Location is a metric that tracks how long viewers watch your videos in specific locations on YouTube, such as on the YouTube homepage, subscription feed, or suggested videos. It helps you understand where your audience engages with your content the most.

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What is "Playback Location"?
Watch Time by Playback Location is a metric on YouTube that provides information on where people are watching your videos. It breaks down the total watch time of your videos by the specific locations where viewers started watching them, such as on YouTube search or suggested videos, your channel page, embedded on websites, or other video sharing platforms. By understanding where your viewers are finding your videos and spending the most time watching them, you can optimize your content and promotion strategies to reach your target audience more effectively. Additionally, this metric can help identify opportunities for increasing engagement and building your audience on specific platforms or channels.
Example: A YouTube content creator can make informed decisions on video promotions and advertising strategies based on the Watch Time by Playback Location metric, which shows how long viewers watch their videos on different locations such as on their channel page, on the YouTube search page, or on external websites.

Visualizations

  • Databox visualization

    Bar and Line Chart

    Used to show comparisons between values.

How to track Playback Location in Databox?

Databox is a business analytics software that allows you to track and visualize your most important metrics from any data source in one centralized platform.

To track Playback Location using Databox, follow these steps:

  1. 1
    Connect YouTube that contains the metric you want to track
  2. 2
    Select the metric you want to track from the list of available metrics
  3. 3
    Drag and drop the selected metric onto your dashboard
  4. 4
    Watch your dashboard populate in seconds
  5. 5
    Put Playback Location on the Performance screen
  6. 6
    Get Playback Location performance daily with Scorecards or as a weekly digest
  7. 7
    Set Goals to track and improve performance of Playback Location
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General

  • Description
    Watch Time by Playback Location is a metric that tracks how long viewers watch your videos in specific locations on YouTube, such as on the YouTube homepage, subscription feed, or suggested videos. It helps you understand where your audience engages with your content the most.
  • Category
    Video Marketing
  • Subcategory
    Time video
  • Date Added
    2017-06-26

Specification

  • Metric Type
    general
  • Dimensional
    Yes
  • Decimal Digits
    No
  • Currency Units
    No
  • Granularities
    Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly.
  • Custom Relative Periods
    Yes
  • Data Availability
    At sync, it ranges from 3 years ago to 1 day ago 00:00.
  • Retroactive Data Updates
    Newly synced data is merged with existing data, replacing values for matching periods.
  • Future Data Available
    No

Visualization

  • Default Format
    Duration
  • Cumulative Graph
    Yes
  • Favorable Trend
    increasing
  • Media Creatives
    No
  • Forecasts
    Yes
  • Benchmarks
    No

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