Connect to YouTube Analytics

YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch, and share original videos content.

Anyone with a Google Account can upload videos to a YouTube channel. The YouTube Analytics connector lets you use Looker Studio to report on analytics data about the YouTube channels you own.

How to connect to YouTube Analytics

  1. Sign in to Looker Studio.

  2. On the Looker Studio home page, in the top left, click Create, and then select Data Source.

  3. Select the YouTube Analytics connector.

  4. If prompted to grant Looker Studio access to your account, click AUTHORIZE.

    You can revoke this access at any time.

  5. Select a connection option (described below) and provide your connection details.

  6. In the upper right, click CONNECT.

    1. The data source fields panel appears.
    2. The data source is now connected to your data set.

Connection options

When creating a YouTube Analytics data source, you can connect to your YouTube channel data in the following ways:

All

The All option provides a list of all the accounts and channels to which you have access.

My Channel

The My Channel option provides a list of the channels associated with your current Google Account.

Content Owners

If you use YouTube's Content ID Matching system, you are considered to be a YouTube Content Owner. You can manage multiple channels, and allow other users to access this channel data on your behalf. The Content Owners option provides a list of all the content owner accounts to which you have access. Selecting an account will then show you a list of your channels.

Advanced

Use the Advanced option to specify either a channel or a content owner ID directly.

Configure the data source

The data source fields panel is where you configure the data source by renaming fields and adding descriptions, adding calculated fields, and changing data types and aggregations. Learn more about working with data source fields.

Control who sees the data

At the top of the fields panel, you can change the data credentials. Credentials control who can see the data that this data source provides.

OWNER'S CREDENTIALS let other people view or create reports that use this data without requiring them to have their own access to the dataset.

VIEWER'S CREDENTIALS, on the other hand, require each user of the data source to provide their own credentials to access the dataset.

SERVICE ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS rely on a special type of Google Account that represents a non-human user that can authenticate and be authorized to access data.

Learn more about data credentials.

Create a new report from the data source

To create a new report from the data source, follow these steps:

  1. In the upper right, click CREATE REPORT. The report editor appears.
  2. Click ADD TO REPORT.
    1. This action adds the data source to the report.
    2. You can now create charts and controls that get their data from this data source.

New to Looker Studio?

Take the Create a report tutorial.

Notes

Only 50 channels are displayed in the Content Owners and Google+ Pages options. Use the advanced option to access other channels.

To protect viewer privacy, if there are fewer than 10 viewers of a video, country and state data won't appear in the report.