YouTube Analytics Down? Not a Problem When You're Prepared.

So let's say you want to check on how your most recent business video is doing on Youtube. You have a marketing performance meeting tomorrow and you need to report on your video campaigns. You log into your YouTube account, navigate to Analytics, and see this:

Unfortunately, this scenario isn't imaginary and not even uncommon. Many channel owners were greeted by exactly this message upon logging into their accounts this week. Hopefully you didn't need that data today.

So what do you do if you can't wait until Friday in expectation? If you have your own hosting solution, this won't affect you. But if you're primarily focused on the huge YouTube audience, you'll only be able to get your tracking data through offerings like Caffeine during these kinds of outages.

We collate YouTube data through several methods, allowing us to track your channel views even when Google's services are lagging behind. Luckily, we still have our YouTube channel data, whether it's Friday or not. For everyone else: Just two more days to go...

Posted by Jon Prusik
Wednesday, 08 February 2012