It's more than probable that 90% of people who use youtube have never had a video recieve a spike of views from an external source - not quite going viral. Well I am normally amongst those since I only use it to upload videos to show friends, but one time last year one of my
joke videos for
A Hat In Time (10/10 game btw) got
retweeted by the developers, which was an absolutely amazing surprise to receive at 2 in the morning!
So given the video currently sits at a respectable 17K views, just for curiousities sake and because data is cool, I figured I'd show you what the YouTube analytics page for it looks like.
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Overview |
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Reach |
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Engagement |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiouc5Uwqt4EMfCyicSeisTZd_URBqz6hrFomR2ZdpaaNkfETiRVW-vGVVGuKpwOqyFVtRv3sR9KM054xcj-FgAXyjo8EFeApfGh915ckPSi-7e6knEeS-aWi_HAqnL_v7qqqAyoiZME1I9/s320/yt-analytics-audience.png) |
Audience |