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hello and welcome to the Google analytics tutorial series I'm Matt Landers and in this tutorial we're
going to talk about the Google analytics demo account and how you can use it to experiment with
different Google analytics features we'll also take a look at the two properties in the account
the Google merchandise store and the flooded app okay so what is this demo account this account is
a fully functional Google analytics account that anyone can access as long as you have a Google
account it consists of two properties a website and a mobile app and it's really great way for
you to play around with real world business data and experiment with different Google analytics
features so how do you access this account to access the demo account click on one of
the two links in the description of this video and you will need to have a Google account and
be signed in at that time if you don't you can just go ahead and create one and log in with it
and then you can access the account then you'll need to agree to let Google add the demo account
to your analytics account and the demo account is available from the account selector in analytics
it's important to note that the demo account counts against your maximum number of analytics
accounts are permitted to create but that number is 2 000 accounts per Google account so hopefully
you all run into that issue all right let's jump over into the demo and look at the demo account
all right we're starting on the help center article for the demo account and I wanted to start
here so you could see exactly how I get into these properties and you don't miss any of the steps but
the links of these properties are in the video description so you can skip this step if you want
now one thing to notice is that I am logged into my Google account so you need to be logged into
your Google account and if I scroll down I'll see a few links I have the merchandise store property
the flooded app property then I also have this where this data comes from so I can see what the
website looks like where we're collecting that information and also from the flooded app all
right so let's click on the merchandise store so that we can just see what we're dealing with and
we'll be taking to the home page of the Google merchandise store which is just a e-commerce
site where you can buy Google branded merchandise like cups and shirts and different items so all of
this information is being sent to the Google merchandise property for the demo account so
we get live data here so if we go back to the The Help Center and we click on the merchandise
store property will be automatically added to that account and taken directly into the Google
merchandise shop property and I'm not going to dig into all the reports here but you just know
this is a live site with a lot of data where we can go in and see different reports what they
look like and how we can get information out of them so we can act on them for our business now
you can also use this as a sanity check for your setup to make sure that your reports look similar
to the reports here now yours might be different based on your setup but you can get an idea of
what they should look like so for instance we can go over to reporting in real time and we'll see
that we have a 157 people on this site in the last 30 minutes so that's pretty cool we can see where
users are coming from right now and we can also go to different reports that are relevant to the
site since it's an e-commerce site we could go to e-commerce purchases and see what people are
buying on the site now you can go do this right now and play around with this data and see how
these reports work and the data that you can get out of them all right so let's real quickly jump
over to the flooded app if I click on the flooded app or take into a one-page website that then
links to the different app stores for that app and this is just a tiny little mobile game that we use
as a demo to show data from an app going into a property so if we go back to the demo account help
center article and we click on the flood it app property will be taken to that property and this
will have different types of data this instead of having monetization reports we might have
reports about games so we could go into our games reporting into our engagement and we'll see that
we have things like level start level complete what their scores are so this is a different type
of data set that you would see in the e-commerce store but it's a good way for you to get an idea
of what your property should look like based on if you have a website or an app all right in a
future tutorial we're going to dig into more of these reports parts and if you have any questions
about the demo accounts or about your setup or Google analysts in general I highly recommend
that you join our Discord server where my team is there to answer your questions as well as other
people within the community so if you have any questions or anything definitely join our Discord
server come in say hi let us know what you're doing with Google analytics we'd love to see you
all right until our next tutorial go out check out the demo account and happy measuring [Music]