How to View Video Data on YouTube

When you’re new to YouTube’s more technical and creator-focused side, things might become a bit overwhelming. Many people don’t know where to start. Here’s our guide to make finding information and data on videos a lot easier!

This article also dives into how to get historical YouTube data among many other types of information you can find!

This article is split into 4 categories:

• Data from your own videos
• Data from other channels’ videos
• YouTube API Data
• Collective video statistics

This way we can assure you’ll find all the information you need!

The Easiest Way to Get YouTube Video Data in 2024

How to Find YouTube Data for Your Own Videos

YouTube stores very detailed information for each of your videos that you can find in the YouTube Studio app or website.

When first entering the YouTube Studio app or website you’ll be greeted with a general dashboard that shows you some data about your latest uploads and best-performing videos.

From there for more specific statistics about your videos just click on content and the video of your choice. You will only find videos you have uploaded using the account you’re logged into, but if that’s what you’re looking for nothing beats YouTube’s own data!

On YouTube Studio you can find:

• Historical Data from the first day your video was posted
• Subscribers gained from each video
• Watch time for each viewer
• Country of origin for each view
• Total impressions on your thumbnail and title
• CTR (Click through rate)
• Source of traffic
• etc.

In other words, no matter what you need you can most definitely find it there!

How to Find YouTube Data for Other Channels’ Videos

Using a Website

Most people who need YouTube data typically don’t need more information about their own videos, that’s where third-party services come in.

Websites like ViewStats and SocialBlade provide detailed analytics on most YouTube channels completely for free.

Using an Extension

Viewstats also comes with a free Chrome extension that enables you to see YouTube video statistics directly on the video’s page on YouTube.

For other alternatives on where to find YouTube Analytics, check out our article on the Best YouTube Analytics Tools.

YouTube API Data

Unfortunately, YouTube’s API only stores very superficial information on videos and doesn’t show any historical data. That being said, the YouTube API can still be a great tool to quickly get basic information about a large number of channels.

There are various ways to access YouTube’s API, these range from third party tools like Channel Crawlers, to directly requesting information using code.

While this method might give you a large batch of information in a short amount of time, it does require some technical know-how that most don’t have. This is where service providers like Favoree come in.

Our expert team at Favoree will make sure you get all the data you could possibly need quickly and easily!

How to Find General Statistics on YouTube Videos

If you’re looking for collective YouTube video data such as the total watchtime on YouTube, or the total number of videos uploaded, I have bad news for you.

While YouTube sometimes discloses some of that information, they are a private company and therefore not required to share these statistics. That being said, we have collected most of the statistics that have been publicly disclosed in our YouTube Statistics article.

Here are some Statistics related to Videos on YouTube:

• 500 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube according to YouTube in 2024.
• 720,000 hours are uploaded every day on YouTube, over 1 billion hours are consumed on YouTube per day according to YouTube in 2024.
• Videos are mostly removed for these reasons; Child safety (36.9%), harmful content (27.9%).

If you need any YouTube data that you can’t find in this article or want a curated dataset for your specific needs you can contact us and our expert Data Analysts will get back to you within 24h.