TopVideos

Query the TopVideos for a channel or the TopPlaylists if you are a content owner. You can also use this view to query playback detail and geographic filters.

Table Specific Information

Select

The following query returns a channel's top videos:

SELECT * FROM TopVideos

The following query returns a channel's top videos by most minutes watched in a specific country:

SELECT Video, Views, EstimatedMinutesWatched, AverageViewDuration, AverageViewPercentage FROM TopVideos WHERE Country = 'US'

The following query returns a channel's top playlists by most minutes watched:

SELECT Playlist, Views, EstimatedMinutesWatched, PlaylistStarts, AverageViewDuration FROM TopVideos WHERE IsCurated = true

Select Rules

You can use the following tables to build other queries to Top Videos:

Columns


Name	Type	Dimension	DefaultMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
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.
Video	String	True		True	The Id of a YouTube video.
Playlist	String	True			The Id of a YouTube playlist.
Group	String	True			(filter only) The Id of a YouTube Analytics group.
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. The API supports the following values: 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.
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 a 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 a 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.
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.
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. Possible values are SUBSCRIBED and 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.
Views	Double	False	True		The number of times that a video was viewed. In a playlist report, the metric indicates the number of times that a video was viewed in the context of a playlist.
EstimatedMinutesWatched	Double	False	True		The number of minutes that users watched videos for the specified channel, content owner, video, or playlist.
AverageViewDuration	Double	False	True		The average length, in seconds, of video playbacks. In a playlist report, the metric indicates the average length, in seconds, of video playbacks that occurred in the context of a playlist.
AverageViewPercentage	Double	False	False		The average percentage of a video watched during a video playback.
PlaylistStarts	Double	False	False		The number of times that viewers initiated playback of a playlist.
Likes	Double	False	False		The number of times that users indicated that they liked a video by giving it a positive rating.
ViewerPercentage	Double	False	False		The percentage of viewers who were logged in when watching the video or playlist.
Comments	Double	False	True		The number of times that users commented on a video.
Dislikes	Double	False	True		The number of times that users indicated that they disliked a video by giving it a negative rating. This is a core metric and is subject to the Deprecation Policy.
Shares	Double	False	True		The number of times that users shared a video through the Share button.
SubscribersGained	Double	False	True		The number of times that users subscribed to a channel or video.
SubscribersLost	Double	False	True		The number of times that users unsubscribed from a channel or video.
VideosAddedToPlaylists	Double	False	True		The number of times that videos were added to the video owner playlist or other channel playlists like the Watch Later playlist. Channel uploads playlists and user watch history are not reported. This metric returns an absolute number, meaning that if a user adds a video to a playlist, removes it, and then adds it again, the metric value reflects the video being added to a playlist twice. Data for this metric is not available for dates before October 1, 2014.
VideosRemovedFromPlaylists	Double	False	True		The number of times that videos were removed from the video owner playlist and other YouTube playlists like the Watch Later playlist. This metric returns an absolute number, meaning that if a user adds a video to a playlist, removes it, adds it again, and then removes it again, the metric value reflects the video being removed from a playlist twice. Data for this metric is not available for dates before October 1, 2014.
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.
AnnotationImpressions	Double	False	True		The total number of annotation impressions.
AnnotationClickableImpressions	Double	False	True		The number of annotations that appeared and could be clicked.
AnnotationClicks	Double	False	True		The number of clicked annotations.
AnnotationClickThroughRate	Double	False	True		The ratio of annotations that viewers clicked to the total number of clickable annotation impressions.
AnnotationClosableImpressions	Double	False	True		The number of annotations that appeared and could be closed.
AnnotationCloses	Double	False	True		The number of closed annotations.
AnnotationCloseRate	Double	False	True		The ratio of annotations that viewers closed to the total number of annotation impressions.
EstimatedRevenue	Decimal	False	False		The total estimated earnings (net revenue) from all Google-sold advertising sources as well as from nonadvertising sources for the selected date range and region. Estimated earnings are subject to month-end adjustment and do not include partner-sold and partner-served advertising.
EstimatedAdRevenue	Decimal	False	False		The total estimated earnings (net revenue) from all Google-sold advertising sources for the selected date range and region. Estimated earnings are subject to month-end adjustment and do not include partner-sold and partner-served advertising.
EstimatedRedPartnerRevenue	Decimal	False	False		The total estimated revenue earned from YouTube Red subscriptions for the selected report dimensions. The value of the metric reflects earnings from both music and nonmusic content and is subject to month-end adjustment.
GrossRevenue	Decimal	False	False		The estimated gross revenue, in USD, from all Google-sold or DoubleClick-partner-sold advertising for the selected date range and region. Gross revenue is subject to month-end adjustment and does not include partner-served advertising. Gross revenue should not be confused with earnings, or net revenue, which factors in your share of ownership and revenue-sharing agreements.
Cpm	Decimal	False	False		The estimated gross revenue per thousand ad impressions.
AdImpressions	Double	False	False		The number of verified ad impressions served.
MonetizedPlaybacks	Double	False	False		The number of instances when a viewer played your video and was shown at least one ad impression. A monetized playback is counted if a viewer is shown a preroll ad but quits watching the ad before your video ever starts. The expected estimated error for this figure is ±2.0%.
PlaybackBasedCpm	Decimal	False	False		The estimated gross revenue per thousand playbacks.
StartDate	Date				Start date for fetching Analytics data. Either a date string or a relative date (e.g., today, yesterday, or #daysAgo).
EndDate	Date				End date for fetching Analytics data. Either a date string or a relative date (e.g., today, yesterday, or #daysAgo).

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.


Name	Type	Description
Segments	String	Segments the data returned for your request. Either a SegmentId or a custom segment.


Dimensions	Required	video
	Optional	creatorContentType
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,comments,likes,dislikes,videosAddedToPlaylists,videosRemovedFromPlaylists,shares,estimatedMinutesWatched,averageViewDuration,averageViewPercentage,annotationClickThroughRate,annotationCloseRate,annotationImpressions,annotationClickableImpressions,annotationClosableImpressions,annotationClicks,annotationCloses,subscribersGained,subscribersLost
Filter	Use 0 or one	country,continent,subContinent
Sort	Use 0 or more (only descending order)	views,estimatedMinutesWatched,subscribersGained,subscribersLost


Dimensions	Required	playlist
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,estimatedMinutesWatched,averageViewDuration,playlistStarts,viewsPerPlaylistStart,averageTimeInPlaylist
Filter	Required	isCurated=true
	Use 0 or one	country,province,continent,subContinent
	Use 0 or more	playlist,subscribedStatus,youtubeProduct
Sort	Use 0 or more (only descending order)	views,estimatedMinutesWatched,playlistStarts


Dimensions	Required	video
	Optional	creatorContentType
Metrics	Use 1 or more	views,comments,likes,dislikes,videosAddedToPlaylists,videosRemovedFromPlaylists,shares,estimatedMinutesWatched,averageViewDuration,averageViewPercentage,annotationClickThroughRate,annotationCloseRate,annotationImpressions,annotationClickableImpressions,annotationClosableImpressions,annotationClicks,annotationCloses,subscribersGained,subscribersLost,earnings,adEarnings,grossRevenue,redPartnerRevenue,monetizedPlaybacks,playbackBasedCpm,impressions,impressionBasedCpm
Filter	Use exactly one	channel
	Use 0 or one	country,continent,subContinent
Sort	Use 0 or more (only descending order)	views,earnings,redPartnerRevenue,estimatedMinutesWatched,subscribersGained,subscribersLost