Analytics are important on YouTube, and with restreams analytics you can see EVEN
more information for FREE!
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When it comes to YouTube, analytics are an important part of understanding what is, and
isn’t working in your videos, but when it comes to live-streaming YouTube’s analytics are still lacking.
That’s why I’m happy to partner with Restream.IO to show you their free
analytics feature. If you haven’t seen it I have a full video tutorial on how to livestream
with Restream for free! I'll include it with the card on screen
and in the description down below!
In the description you'll see my affiliate link
where you can try the paid version of Restream for 7 days
Let’s get started on Restream's dashboard!
On the restream homepage make your way to the left hand side where you’ll see this bar graph
icon. As you can see when I hover, this is restreams’s analytics feature. Let's click on it.
The first area it brings me to is my last session.
However if you haven’t streamed yet you will be taken to the overview.
To get to the overview click on “Overview” in this menu on the left hand side.
Before we get into the overview, It’s important to note that the restream
analytics at the time of this video are in beta, and will be updated after,
but this video is a great breakdown of the analytics.
It’s also important to note that not every streaming platform let’s restream access
the full data. I’ll have this graph on screen and you can pause the video
to see which streaming platform allows what.
You also need to Stream FIRST To get analytics, if you haven’t streamed yet download restream
and start streaming today! Luckily for us YouTube which this video is focusing on allows all of what
restream asks for it’s analytics, and we can see that in the overview.
In the overview we can see the number of streams, average duration,
streamed time, chat messages, average viewers and max viewers of our streams.
Restream is calculating this at the time of this video based on the current week, since
I streamed last week, but not this week these numbers are all from my last streaming session.
Speaking of my last streaming session, let's click on Last Session here to see how that did.
The analytics here start in the viewers tab, and show the date, time, and duration of my stream.
How many viewers I had and when my peak stream time was. As we can see for this stream
it was around 10:10 am. It also tells me my average number of viewers which was 13,
my maximum number of viewers which was 18, and how many total watch minutes this stream earned,
which as we can see is 1,248 minutes or 20 hours and 48 minutes of watched minutes!
The chart shows the time that my viewers came in and this is similar to YouTube.
If we compare it to what YouTube offers.we can see that YouTube shows chat messages
like in restreams tab, concurrent viewers,
but it doesn’t average them out, and you have to scroll to find more information.
The rest is standard analytics on YouTube as if it was a normal video, one example is
subscribers on YouTube are followers on restream, and if I look here I need to do better at getting
people to subscribe, but it’s not specific to streaming that’s where restream comes in.
Speaking of Subscribing, I’ll be honest
and learn from this stream, and ask YOU to subscribe for more tutorials and tips like
this that YOU Kan do yourself to improve your content! ANY way back to analytics.
If I want to see the top chatters of my livestream on YouTube there isn’t really a way
except to watch the replay, but with restream analytics I just click on the chat trends
tab and here I can see popular phrases… if there are any and who my top chatters are.
Since I see I don’t have any popular phrases this might be something I try to do with my audience,
something like a Hashtag or yes or no questions might work.
I also want to shout out my top chatters! I recognize everyone on this list, and to
say thank you I’ll link them in the description down below. Another cool idea for promotion is
screenshotting this link and thanking them on social with a link to your next stream.
Maybe in the future restream will work on this to be shareable, again just some ideas!
The final two tabs are monitor incoming and monitor outgoing. I will link an article that
you can learn more about this since this is different for everyone, but for me my stream
is good, but yours might not have the same results, so resources below the YouTube chapters.
The next sections I want to show off are stream metrics, chat, and audience, this lets you see All
this info over a period of time. You can see how many streams I’ve done, and from this drop down
menu here I can click and choose these presets here, or I can click on the first date and set it.
I personally like to see a year of data, 3 months, and 1 month so choose what YOU want to see.
All of this is useful in helping me see the data more clearly.
Another cool thing with data when you finish streaming restream EMAILS you insights on how it
went, and I think that is overall cool. I want to see more data brought into their analytics.
Like on YouTube let me see the superchats, stickers, etc. that would be great.
If you’re looking for better analytics for Free restream has you covered.
I want to know how you live streamed before? Where do you get your analytics!
I also want to say, why did restream sponsor this video. Restream haven’t seen this script
or video meaning they’re seeing it for the first time now that it’s uploaded to YouTube.
I’m Andrew Kan, and if I Kan get more advanced
analytics for live streaming from restream, you Kan too!