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Compliance

Data Transparency

In accordance with YouTube API Services Policy III.E.4.h, Tubient explicitly labels the source of every metric displayed on the platform. This ensures you understand the provenance of your data and can distinguish between raw platform metrics and Tubient's derived analytics.

YouTube API (Raw)

These metrics are returned directly from the YouTube Analytics or Data APIs without modification. They represent the "ground truth" of your channel's performance as reported by YouTube. Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Views & View Count (see "What counts as a view" below)
  • Engaged Views
  • Subscriber Growth (Gained/Lost)
  • Watch Hours (Raw Estimated Minutes)
  • Social Proof (Likes, Comments, Shares)
  • Audience Demographics & Geography

Tubient Derived (Calculated)

These metrics are composite figures where Tubient performs mathematical operations or merges data from multiple endpoints to provide deeper insights. Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Engagement Rate: The combined total of likes, comments, and shares on each video.
  • Retention %: Calculated by comparing Average View Duration against the total video length.
  • Watch Time Contribution: Proportional analysis of how individual videos drive your total channel watch time.
  • Shorts Performance: A proprietary scoring system designed to evaluate vertical content momentum.

What counts as a view

On 27 August 2026 YouTube changed what a view means. A view is now counted the moment your video starts playing, on long-form videos and live streams. It used to take a few seconds of watching before it counted.

Your view count went up around that date. That is the new counting, not a jump in how many people found you. Nothing about your videos changed, and YouTube did not go back and recount your older videos, so a total that runs across that date is really two different measurements added together.

  • Use engaged views to compare with the past. Engaged views count the way views were counted before the change, so they line up with your July numbers. Every views chart in Tubient has an engaged views counterpart, and the Engaged View Rate node shows what share of your views were engaged.
  • Your earnings are not affected. Revenue has always been based on engaged Shorts views and engaged watch hours, and it still is. The same goes for your progress toward the YouTube Partner Program. Those thresholds were renamed to "qualified Shorts views" and "qualified watch hours", but what they measure has not changed.
  • Shorts already worked this way. Shorts moved to this style of counting back in 2025, so your Shorts numbers are not changing now. This is long-form and live catching up.
  • Engaged views are hard to find in Studio. They sit under Advanced Mode in YouTube Analytics rather than on the main screen, which is why the headline number you see in Studio is the new one.

One caveat worth knowing if you compare formats. Engaged views apply the older rule consistently over time, but that rule is not identical everywhere: on Shorts it means at least four seconds of watching, while long-form and live follow their own earlier standard. That makes engaged views reliable for tracking a trend over time, which is what they are for here. Treat a single blended engaged views total across formats as a rough figure rather than an exact one.

Node Labeling

Tubient explicitly labels the source of every metric directly in the chart titles for graph nodes, or via a Source: [Label] subtitle in the node footer for static and filter nodes. This provides real-time disclosure of the data provenance for the specific visualization you are viewing.