Devices

Query YouTubeAnalytics Devices or Operating System statistics. This table allows you to aggregate viewing statistics based on the manner in which viewers reached your video content. For example, you can identify the number of views that occurred on mobile devices or game consoles.

Table Specific Information

Select

By default, grouping is done by Device Type:

SELECT * FROM Devices

However, you can group views by other dimensions such as Operating System:

SELECT OperatingSystem, Views, EstimatedMinutesWatched FROM Devices

Notice that you cannot mix both Device Type and Operating System in the same query due to limitations in the YouTube Analytics API.

Select Rules

You can use the following tables to build other queries to Devices:

Devices for videos:


Dimensions	Use exactly one	deviceType,operatingSystem
	Use 0 or more	creatorContentType,day,liveOrOnDemand,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,estimatedMinutesWatched
Filter	Use 0 or one	country,province,continent,subContinent
	Use 0 or one	video,group
	Use 0 or more	operatingSystem,liveOrOnDemand,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct

Device data for playlists:


Dimensions	Use exactly one	deviceType,operatingSystem
	Use 0 or more	day,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,estimatedMinutesWatched,playlistStarts,viewsPerPlaylistStart,averageTimeInPlaylist
Filter	Required	isCurated=true
	Use 0 or one	country,province,continent,subContinent
	Use 0 or one	playlist,channel,group
	Use 0 or more	operatingSystem,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct

Device data for content owners:


Dimensions	Required	deviceType
	Use 0 or more	creatorContentType,day,liveOrOnDemand,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,estimatedMinutesWatched
Filter	Use exactly one	video,channel,group
	Use 0 or one	country,province,continent,subContinent
	Use 0 or more	operatingSystem,liveOrOnDemand,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct

Device data for content owner playlists:


Dimensions	Required	deviceType
	Use 0 or more	day,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,estimatedMinutesWatched,playlistStarts,viewsPerPlaylistStart,averageTimeInPlaylist
Filters	Required	isCurated=true
	Use 0 or one	country,province,continent,subContinent
	Use 0 or one	playlist,channel,group
	Use 0 or more	operatingSystem,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct

Columns


Name	Type	Dimension	DefaultMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Video	String	True			The Id of a YouTube video.
Group	String	True			(filter only) The Id of a YouTube Analytics group.
Channel	String	True			(only used in content owner reports) The Id for a YouTube channel. The channel dimension is frequently used in content owner reports because those reports typically aggregate data for multiple channels.
Playlist	String	True			The Id of a YouTube playlist.
Country	String	True			The country associated with the metrics in the report row. The dimension value is a two-letter ISO-3166-1 country code, such as US, CN (China), or FR (France). The country code ZZ is used to report metrics for which YouTube could not identify the associated country.
Province	String	True			The U.S. state or territory associated with the metrics in the report row. The dimension value is an ISO 3166-2 code that identifies a U.S. state or the District of Columbia, such as US-MI (Michigan) or US-TX (Texas). The province code US-ZZ is used to report metrics for which YouTube could not identify the associated U.S. state. If the Province column is specified, Country must be set to US in the WHERE clause.
Continent	String	True			(filter only) A United Nations (U.N.) statistical region code: 002 Africa, 019 Americas (Northern America, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean), 142 Asia, 150 Europe, 009 Oceania. This dimension can only be used to filter data.
SubContinent	String	True			(filter only) A U.N. statistical region code that identifies a geographical subregion.
CreatorContentType	String	True			This dimension identifies the type of content associated with the user activity metrics in the data row. The allowed values are LIVE_STREAM, SHORTS, STORY, VIDEO_ON_DEMAND, UNSPECIFIED.
Day	String	True			When you use this dimension, data in the report is aggregated on a daily basis and each row contains data for one day.
LiveOrOnDemand	String	True			This dimension indicates whether the user activity metrics in the data row are associated with views of a live broadcast. Data for this dimension is available for dates beginning April 1, 2014. The allowed values are LIVE, ON_DEMAND.
SubscribedStatus	String	True			This dimension indicates whether the user activity metrics in the data row are associated with viewers who were subscribed to the video or playlist channel. The allowed values are SUBSCRIBED, UNSUBSCRIBED. Note that the dimension value is accurate as of the time that the user activity occurs.
YoutubeProduct	String	True			This dimension identifies the YouTube service on which the user activity occurred. Data for this dimension is available as of July 18, 2015. The allowed values are CORE, GAMING, KIDS, UNKNOWN.
DeviceType	String	True		True	This dimension identifies the physical form factor of the device on which the view occurred. The allowed values are DESKTOP, GAME_CONSOLE, MOBILE, TABLET, TV, UNKNOWN_PLATFORM.
OperatingSystem	String	True		False	This dimension identifies the software system of the device on which the view occurred. The allowed values are ANDROID, BADA, BLACKBERRY, DOCOMO, HIPTOP, IOS, LINUX, MACINTOSH, MEEGO, NINTENDO_3DS, OTHER, PLAYSTATION, PLAYSTATION_VITA, SMART_TV, SYMBIAN, WEBOS.
IsCurated	Boolean	True			This filter indicates that the request is retrieving data about video views that occurred in the context of a playlist. This filter is required for any playlist report and its value must be set to 1.
ClaimedStatus	String	True			(only used in content owner reports) This dimension lets you indicate that the result set will only contain metrics for claimed content. The allowed value is claimed.
UploaderType	String	True			(only used in content owner reports) This dimension lets you indicate whether the result set will contain metrics for content uploaded by the specified content owner or content uploaded by third parties, such as user-uploaded videos. The allowed values are self and thirdParty.
Views	Double	False	True		The number of times that a video was viewed.
EstimatedMinutesWatched	Double	False	True		The number of minutes that users watched videos for the specified channel, content owner, video, or playlist.
PlaylistStarts	Double	False	False		The number of times that viewers initiated playback of a playlist.
ViewsPerPlaylistStart	Double	False	False		The average number of video views that occurred each time a playlist was initiated.
AverageTimeInPlaylist	Double	False	False		The estimated average amount of time, in minutes, that a viewer viewed videos in a playlist after the playlist was initiated.
StartDate	Date				Start date for fetching Analytics data.
EndDate	Date				End date for fetching Analytics data.

Pseudo-Columns

Pseudo column fields are used in the WHERE clause of SELECT statements and offer a more granular control over the tuples that are returned from the data source.