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I was listening to the WAN show, and trying to imagine and understand the problems and frustrations creators are having with the analytics and performance oversight provided by YouTube.

 

What I understand your problems to be, is a lack of detailed insight, and fine grained control over the information that you are seeking.

 

Based on everything that I have read about YouTube over the years, it would appear that what creators are experiencing, is a deliberate nerfing of analytical insight, for one reason; the protection of the YouTube algorithm.

 

The more information YouTube provides creators, the more that information can be collated, combined, analysed; all in a way which allows the public to accurately infer fine details about the YouTube algorithm; an algorithm which YouTube has specifically fought courts over, to keep a trade secret.

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Have any creators found a reasonable way to port out data from youtube for external analysis? Maybe into the bigquery/looker stack? Or something open source?

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On 7/3/2022 at 1:28 AM, DuckingQuackers said:

I was listening to the WAN show, and trying to imagine and understand the problems and frustrations creators are having with the analytics and performance oversight provided by YouTube.

 

What I understand your problems to be, is a lack of detailed insight, and fine grained control over the information that you are seeking.

 

Based on everything that I have read about YouTube over the years, it would appear that what creators are experiencing, is a deliberate nerfing of analytical insight, for one reason; the protection of the YouTube algorithm.

 

The more information YouTube provides creators, the more that information can be collated, combined, analysed; all in a way which allows the public to accurately infer fine details about the YouTube algorithm; an algorithm which YouTube has specifically fought courts over, to keep a trade secret.

Youtube wants people to make good videos, but not too good that it reveals their algorithm!

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