Platforms

YouTube

1. How do I differentiate a YouTube video from a YouTube Shorts?

YouTube APIs don't currently provide a way for us to be able to make this info available to you. However, you could look at the duration filed of a content item to be able to make an educated guess about this.

2. While connecting to YouTube, creators see a permission on YouTube page that enables InsightIQ to "permanently delete" some of their data. I/my creators don't want InsightIQ to have this access. What can I do?

First things first - rest assured, InsightIQ never deletes, modifies or uploads any data. This permission is in place to be able to access comment data for the account. If you do not wish to provide this permission, you wouldn't be able to use the comment data from InsightIQ. To do this, simply remove "ENGAGEMENT.AUDIENCE" product from the products parameter while trying to create an SDK token, and the creators would no longer see that permission and you would not be able to access their comments data.

3. What is the difference between YouTube income data and AdSense income data?

AdSense data supplements YouTube's "daily provisional transaction logs" by providing the "finalized amount as a bulk settlement".

  • The YouTube income data provides a day wise provisional credit information for a channel, including ad revenue and revenue from YouTube premium, subscriptions, etc. This is not the final reconciled amount - because YouTube adjusts it for fraud, CPM changes, clicks, etc. This process is pretty opaque.

  • AdSense provides you the final reconciled aggregate amount after adjustments that YouTube will definitely pay you/has definitely paid you, along with the payment status and date. AdSense issues the payout between the 21st and 26th of the month, which is about 20 days after the closure of the month.

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