YouTube (Legacy) Updates

Updates on the YouTube (Legacy) data source, including new metrics, dimensions, and other features.

November 2022

New dimensions added:

• Video visibility
• Video upload status
• Video failure reason
• Video rejection reason
• Video embeddability
• Video public stats viewable
• Video made for kids

September 2022

2022-09-06

Field added:

• Published time

March 2021

2021-03-09 -

The following fields have had their data types adjusted to clarify they are currency values (int to float):

• Gross revenue per 1000 impressions
• Gross revenue per 1000 playbacks

2021-03-17 -

New field added:

• Video image

Feb. 2021

2021-02-09 - 

The following fields have had their data types adjusted to clarify they are currency values (int to float):

• Estimated ad revenue
• Gross revenue (Google-sold & DoubleClick partner-sold ads)

The following field has been properly deprecated and should be removed from reporting (use "Gross revenue (Google-sold & DoubleClick partner-sold ads)" instead):

• primaryAdGrossRevenue

June 2020

2020-06-26 -

The following video dimensions have been added:

• Video description
• Video tags
• Video category
• Video resolution
• Video has captions
• Video is licensed content
• Video age restrictions

There is also now the option to fetch all listed videos per channel or across all changes.

Feb. 2020

2020-02-06 - new fields added:

• Channel subscribers count
• Channel video count
• Video length

2020-02-18 - new fields added:

• Estimated ad revenue
• Estimated Premium partner ad revenue
• Video privacy status

Jan. 2020

2020-01-09 - support added for video thumbnails via the new dimension:

• Video image URL

June 2018

2018-06-07:

Supermetrics connectors have been updated to now use the YouTube Analytics and Reporting API v2.