Google announced its YouTube analytics tool called YouTube Insight. The tool providers the uploaders of videos insight into statistics dealing with the geographic areas where the videos are viewed and the metrics associated with the views of the video over time.

An excerpt from SearchEngineJournal

YouTube Insight gives users two categories of video usage data - page views and popularity. Page views for videos can be displayed by 5 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and one year. Page views can be further categorized by country.

Popularity is another way showing a video's total page views that is by categorizing it by a number from 1 to 100 100 being the most watched video and 0 for being the least watched.

Emerging as one of the most popular destinations on the video web, the metrics tool will provide more directions for advertising and marketing on YouTube.

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