Devices

Query YouTubeAnalytics Devices 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
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.
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.
Views	Double		True		The number of times that a video was viewed.
EstimatedMinutesWatched	Double		True		The number of minutes that users watched videos for the specified channel, content owner, video, or playlist.
AverageViewDuration	Double				The average length, in seconds, of video playbacks. As of December 13, 2021, this metric excludes looping clips traffic. In a playlist report, the metric indicates the average length, in seconds, of video playbacks that occurred in the context of a playlist.
AverageTimeInPlaylist	Double				The estimated average amount of time, in minutes, that a viewer viewed videos in a playlist after the playlist was initiated. Note that this metric includes only playlist views that occurred on the web.
PlaylistAverageViewDuration	Double				The estimated average length, in seconds, watched per playlist view. Note that this metric represents the average length of views of individual videos within a playlist; the averageTimeInPlaylist metric, by contrast, represents the average time each viewer spends watching the playlist as a whole. This metric includes data for playlist videos that are owned by other channels.
PlaylistEstimatedMinutesWatched	Double				The number of minutes that users watched the playlist content as a part of the playlist. Watch time that occurred in other contexts?for example, watch time from views that occurred when viewers were watching the same video as part of other playlists?is not counted. This metric includes data for playlist videos that are owned by other channels.
PlaylistStarts	Double				The number of times that viewers initiated playback of a playlist. Note that this metric includes only playlist views that occurred on the web.
PlaylistViews	Double				The number of times that videos in the playlist were viewed in the context of that playlist. This metric includes data for playlist videos that are owned by other channels.
ViewsPerPlaylistStart	Double				The average number of video views that occurred each time a playlist was initiated.
Country	String				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				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				(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				(filter only) A U.N. statistical region code that identifies a geographical subregion.
Video	String	True			The Id of a YouTube video.
Playlist	String				The Id of a YouTube playlist.
Group	String				(filter only) The Id of a YouTube Analytics group.
ClaimedStatus	String				(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				(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.
OperatingSystem	String				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.
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.