See where and When A Video Is Being Watched on YouTube

YouTube is becoming such the channel for distributors, whether it’s for personal use or business related, that a success is often measured by its views. As for example; an agency launched there new Noodle commercial and was so excited for their 20 000 hits on the first day that they bought everyone for drinks. And while this immature, but funny spot generated more than 42,6 million hits, it shows that success is always relative.

Anyway, every third video watched on net is via YouTube and now are now launching their new analytics product that will let video creators see the geographic makeup of their audience, using internet protocol data, and a timeline charting a video's popularity. Up until now, the only publicly available information was the number of views, comments and ratings.

Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager, said” the analytics tool will help content creators grow their audience and optimize performance by telling them on what days their videos get the most views and where those views come from.”

This can help creators such as marketers to spot where their videos gain the most views and therefore focus their marketing efforts (or whatever they use) towards that specific area, place, spot.

"It's the world's largest focus group [for video]," Mr. Chan says.

"There'll be a through-a-looking-glass moment," said Shiva Rajaraman, YouTube product manager. "[Content creators] have been thinking of YouTube as a site and forget it's a doorway to reach audiences everywhere."

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