Connect your channel
See how much your numbers moved after a change.
Connecting your YouTube channel builds it a daily-refreshed dashboard on Open Channel Stats. A thumbnail, title, or traffic-source change is dated to the day it happened, and how much your numbers moved lands beside it once the record covers both sides — in plain language. The full daily record, and what’s likely next — free. It starts private; only you, signed in, can open it.
What it adds, and what it doesn’t
The reading Studio doesn’t assemble — and what this doesn’t do.
What changed, and how much
How much your numbers actually moved after a thumbnail, title, or traffic-source change — the change dated to the day it happened, the movement beside it once the record covers it, in plain language and never asserted as the cause. The reading YT Studio doesn't assemble.
One plain reading, daily
Your most recent day in one line and one number — what happened, what changed, and what's likely next, shown beside the range it could fall in and its own track record — instead of a wall of dashboards to assemble yourself.
The whole record, downloadable
Every video and every quiet day as a single self-describing SQLite file with AI-ready prompts — the same data the dashboards read, nothing held back.
What it does not do
- No revenue or RPM — it never asks for monetization access.
- Not real-time — YouTube's reports trail by two to three days, and every channel page says which day its data runs through.
- No age or gender — no breakdown of your viewers by age or gender.
- No editing — the access is read-only, so titles, thumbnails, comments and uploads stay yours to change on YouTube.
- No advice — it reports what moved and when, never why, and never what to try next.
What you get
What your dashboard shows.
Every connected channel gets the same 6 surfaces, refreshed daily. Here’s what each one shows.
- Overview
- The most recent reported day in one plain line and one number, with the workings a tap away.
- Videos
- Every public upload — its views, watch time, and CTR — searchable and sortable.
- Traffic
- Where the views came from — Browse, Suggested, Search, External, the Shorts feed — day by day.
- Changes
- Every title and thumbnail edit on record, dated, with the fourteen days either side of it.
- Ahead
- Where the recent pace points next, the range around it, and how past calls have held up.
- Data
- The open database under all of it — documented, queryable, and downloadable as one file.
Day 7. 14 views in the past 7 days.
5 channels are public — each in the open, refreshed daily.
Before you connect anything, the shared pool shows how views build, day by day, and what each group of channels runs at.See the ranges →
The details, plainly
What connecting means, in plain terms.
- What does connecting a channel do?
Signing in with YouTube gives a channel its own dashboard — every video, every quiet day, every metric, refreshed daily. It starts private: only the signed-in owner can open it, and to everyone else the page does not exist.
- What access does it ask for?
Two read-only Google scopes and nothing more: youtube.readonly (the channel itself — its videos, titles, and thumbnails) and yt-analytics.readonly (the owner-only analytics — views, impressions, click rate, retention, traffic sources). Both are read-only, so the site can read a channel's stats but cannot upload, edit, or remove anything on the channel. No monetization or revenue access is requested. The key Google issues is stored encrypted and is never part of anything published.
- Is a connected channel public or private?
Every channel starts private — only its signed-in owner can open the dashboard. Going public is a separate, owner-only choice that publishes the channel by name, with real titles and real numbers visible to everyone. One part of that is permanent: once a channel is public, copies of what was visible can be made outside the site — search caches, web archives, saved downloads — and going private later stops publishing here but cannot recall copies that already exist.
- When does the data show up?
A first build starts when a channel connects — the dashboard is typically ready in 10–15 minutes, longer if a daily build is already running — and it refreshes with the daily build, around 06:00 UTC, after that. There is no fake progress bar. YouTube's first reports arrive within a day or two of connecting, and each day's numbers finalize two to three days later, so the most recent days fill in gradually.
- What is the shared pool?
Connecting adds a channel's stats to the consent-gated shared pool that powers the reference readings — the typical-for-channels-like-this ranges shown across dashboards. The connect page says so plainly before the Google sign-in step, and it stays a real choice: the owner can turn sharing off from the account console, which deletes the contributed data on the next daily build. Every connected channel gets the pool reference readings — the typical-for-channels-like-this ranges — whether or not it shares. Sharing decides what goes into the pool, never what a channel reads from it. Aggregates never name a channel; public pooled channels are listed by name on the directory. A channel that leaves the site while still sharing keeps its already-contributed history in those unnamed aggregates — turning sharing off first removes it entirely.
- What happens on disconnect?
Disconnecting is available any time from the owner's account. It revokes the site's access to the channel's YouTube data and deletes the channel's stored data, including its private analytics. Its public page stops serving within seconds; the page and its listing in the site directory are removed on the next daily build. If the channel was sharing into the pool, its already-contributed history stays in the pool's unnamed aggregates — turning sharing off before disconnecting removes that too. It cannot be undone — reconnecting starts fresh.
- What does the site not do?
It does not show revenue or RPM — no monetization access is requested. It is not real-time: YouTube's reports trail by two to three days, and every channel page states the day its data runs through. It shows no age or gender breakdown of a channel's viewers. It cannot change anything on YouTube — its access is read-only, so titles, thumbnails, comments and uploads are changed on YouTube, as before. And it gives no advice: it reports what moved and when, never why, and never what to try next.
Carry it anywhere
A public channel gets an embeddable badge.
Every public channel publishes a small live badge — its name and one true count, refreshed daily — ready to drop into a site or description. The snippet below is the pattern; the real badge lives on a channel’s own page once it is public. Replace @yourhandle with the channel’s handle.
The same record comes at post size too: /@yourhandle/card.svg is a 1200×630 share card — the channel, its standing reading with the one figure behind it, a mounted frame from its own uploads where one leads, the recent shape of its views, and the day its data runs through. Paste the link, or use it as an image.
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<a href="https://openchannelstats.com/@yourhandle"><img src="https://openchannelstats.com/@yourhandle/badge.svg" alt="A channel on Open Channel Stats" width="320" height="72"></a>