If you've never clicked our channel audit button, now is the time.
It is our most power tool, we've just upgraded it and this is your complete beginner's guide
on how to use it.
The channel audit tool is divided in to five sections.
Starting at the top you have an instant snapshot of the health of your channel.
Next is the “Content to Double Down on” section.
This includes eight different metrics that track your best videos in each of these categories.
On the right hand side are videos from channels you have added to your vidIQ competitor's
list and traffic being sent your way from other channel's video.
These are you cluster channels.
So whether you want to know which vidoes have the most watchtime, the most views, the highest
audience retention or gained the most subscibrers this is the section to review to help you
decide on what content to produce next.
We also include which search terms are driving the most traffic to your channel as well as
the performance of your end screens and interactive cards.
These often forgotten about YouTube tools can really help with engagement and ensure
your audience to directed to more of your content.
As well as showing you what you're doing right you also need to know what needs more work
which is why we've included this section which shows you your videos with the lowest watchtime,
likes ratio, audience retention, views and which videos are actually causing your subscribers
to leave your channel.
The final two sections are all about improving the metadata - that's tags, titles and descriptions
- on your videos and highlights where you might have missed opportunities such as adding
video cards, endscreens as well as adding videos to playlists.
The channel audit includes many interactive features.
You can mouse over the channel snapshot metrics for more details.
For each category you can click the view more button to see a comprehensive list of all
the videos as ranked by that metric as well as if they rank highly in other categories.
You can consider these premium performers.
You can also click on the video panels within each category too.
This will take you directly to the relevant metrics for that video in the classic YouTube
Creator Studio analytics.
Back on the audit screen, for both the Competitors and Top suggested categories, clicking on
any of these panels will link you to that video's watch page.
In the top right hand corner of the channel audit screen vidIQ boost users can change
the time frame between 30, 60 and 90 days to get a better understanding of your channel's
performance over time.
All users have access to the Limit Videos in Timeframe Checkbox.
With this ticked only videos published within the timeframe are audited, videos published
outside the timeframe and their metrics are filtered out.
You can see here as I toggle the feature on and off how the videos in each category change.
All of the data points you find within top search terms, interactive cards and endscreens
can be clicked to take you back to the classic YouTube creator studio for more in depth analysis.
The bottom two sections are all about taking action now on your existing content.
Let's take title length as an example.
vidIQ suggests our average title length is good but does that apply to all titles?
If we click on the panel this will list all videos published in the timeframe and whether
each title hits the sweet spot.
Free vidIQ users are limited to 2 results on these screens.
If we take endscreens as another example we are missing endscreens on one video, but if
we click the edit icon to the right this takes us directly to the endscreen tool for that
video in YouTube and allows us to fix the issue instantly!
Channel Audit V2 as we are affectionately calling it, is one of our biggest upgrades
ever which is why we want your help.
Do make sure to click on the feedback button at the top and share your thoughts on what
you like, what you don't like, and what you want to see next.
As a side note you can click on the screenshot icon to download a full screen image of your
channel audit.
For a more in depth look at some of the specific analytics featured in our channel audit check
out the video to the right and below that we have a playlist of tutorials on many of
our vidIQ tools.
Enjoy the rest of your video making day and well see you on those videos right now.