YouTube Creator Studio App basics
Manage your YouTube channel on the go with the YouTube Creator Studio app. You can check out your latest stats, respond to comments, get customized notifications, and more.
Get the app
- Android:Download the Creator Studio app for Android from Google Play on devices running Android 4.1 and later.
- iOS devices:Dwwnload the Creator Studio app for iOS from the App Store on iPhones and iPads running iOS 7 and later.
Feature overview
The Creator Studio app is designed specifically to help YouTube creators manage their channels. Click below to review features that are currently available.
Get a quick overview of analytics, your recent uploads, and notable comments all in one place. The dashboard gives you a snapshot of the latest on your channel so you can choose where you’d like to get started.
Use Video Manager to review a list of your recent uploads or edit video titles, descriptions, tags, and other settings. You can also check out recent comments on videos and review your latest video stats.
Use the community section to review comments across your uploads. You can reply to comments, approve or remove moderated comments, and review comments flagged for spam.
Take a look at your channel’s analytics, such as minutes watched, video views, subscribers, revenue, engagement, and traffic sources. Click into a section to adjust your date range and view metrics from the last week or the last year. You can also review realtime estimated views for a particular video.
Note: YouTube realtime estimated views aim to provide early estimates of potential view activity on your videos. We take great care to ensure the highest quality metrics, which means the actual number of views you see in YouTube Analytics could be either higher or lower than this estimate.
Switch channels in the Creator Studio app
If you have multiple channels associated with the same account, you can switch between them in the Creator Studio app.
To select from your other channel options:
- In the upper left, touch the navigation guide icon
. - At the top of the list, touch the name or icon of the channel you’re currently using.
- Choose the channel that you’d like to act as from the list that appears.
.The app will update with the information for the channel you’ve choosen.
Adjust settings in the Creator Studio App
You can control whether or not you receive push notifications from the app. Notifications include things like analytics updates, policy notifications, social notifications, milestones, and YouTube news. You are in control of the notifications that you see and you can set your preferences in the settings of the Creator Studio app.
To get there, click the menu in the upper right corner and select settings. From here, you can adjust your settings, click over to help, rate the app or submit feedback
Mobile Analytics
There are two views of analytics available in the YouTube Creator Studio App:
Channel Level
To view a snapshot of your analytics reports at the channel level, select to Analytics from your navigation guide where you can review:
- video views
- estimated minutes watched
- subscribers
- estimated earnings*
- engagement (likes/dislikes)
- traffic sources
Click into an individual report to adjust your view of the metrics for a particular time period.
Video Level
To review analytics for an individual video, select the video you’d like to review from Videos. Click into the Analytics section and you’ll see a top level overview that will highlight:
- video views
- estimated minutes watched
- estimated earnings*
- real time video views**
- audience retention
- traffic sources
Click the video stats to adjust the time frame for the information you’d like to review.
Need more in depth analytics? Be sure to monitor the performance of your channel and videos using YouTube Analyticson desktop. These interactive reports provide a ton of data about your channel through a variety of reports.
*If your channel is not currently connected to an Adsense account you will not see an estimated earnings report in your app. Learn more about connecting your channel with Adsense.
**YouTube realtime estimated views are an attempt at providing early estimates of potential view activity on your videos. We take great care to ensure the highest quality metrics, which means the actual number of views you see in YouTube Analytics could be either higher or lower than this estimate.
