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YouTube Traffic Source

Watch Time by Traffic Source is a YouTube metric that measures the total amount of time viewers spent watching your videos from different sources such as YouTube search, suggested videos, and external links. It helps you understand which traffic sources are driving the most engagement and views to your channel.

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  • About
  • Technical Details
What is "Traffic Source"?
Watch Time by Traffic Source is a metric that measures the total amount of time viewers spend watching your YouTube videos, broken down by the source of your traffic, such as search, suggested videos or external referrals. Essentially, it helps you understand where your viewers are coming from and how engaged they are with your content. This information can be used to optimize your video strategy and improve your overall YouTube performance.
Example: Watch Time by Traffic Source can help a creator identify that their video is receiving most of its views from social media referrals, which would inform them to tailor the video messaging or format towards a social media-friendly audience.

Visualizations

  • Databox visualization

    Bar and Line Chart

    Used to show comparisons between values.

How to track Traffic Source 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 Traffic Source 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 Traffic Source on the Performance screen
  6. 6
    Get Traffic Source performance daily with Scorecards or as a weekly digest
  7. 7
    Set Goals to track and improve performance of Traffic Source
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YouTube Traffic Source included in Dashboard Templates 1

  • Live view

    YouTube Video Watch Time Analysis

    The YouTube Watch Time Analysis dashboard helps you monitor watch time across all your videos and get alerts on changes.

    YouTube

YouTube Traffic Source included in Report Templates 1

  • Details

    YouTube Report Template

    Use this YouTube report to share important metrics like watch time, average view duration, likes, views by video, and more.

    YouTube

General

  • Description
    Watch Time by Traffic Source is a YouTube metric that measures the total amount of time viewers spent watching your videos from different sources such as YouTube search, suggested videos, and external links. It helps you understand which traffic sources are driving the most engagement and views to your channel.
  • 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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