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