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How are calculated unique viewers on MS Video stream?
Steve Hernou - Stream (classic) doesn't have a unique viewer count. However, it does only count a view for a person per day. So if the same person watched the same video 10 times in a day it would only count as 1 view.
BUT.... for Stream (on SharePoint)...
For videos uploaded to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer there is a way to see the unique viewers and total views and much more.
Find the video in the library > ... > Details > Click the # of views at the top of the details pane > You'll get the file statistics that shows...
- # of unique viewers
- # of total views
- Trend of viewers and views day by day for the last 90 days
- Viewership retention (which part of the video was viewed or not viewed)
MicrosoftSteve Hernou - Stream (classic) doesn't have a unique viewer count. However, it does only count a view for a person per day. So if the same person watched the same video 10 times in a day it would only count as 1 view.
BUT.... for Stream (on SharePoint)...
For videos uploaded to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer there is a way to see the unique viewers and total views and much more.
Find the video in the library > ... > Details > Click the # of views at the top of the details pane > You'll get the file statistics that shows...
- # of unique viewers
- # of total views
- Trend of viewers and views day by day for the last 90 days
- Viewership retention (which part of the video was viewed or not viewed)
Hi my friend im confused about the new chart og strean sharepoint
as i understand in the example of your pic
4 viewers 38 views
this is 4 persons that see the vidieo 38 times? ( so they repeat more than one?)
Also the bars are not display the same number of the title on the graphics
for example in my case display 12 viewers and 42 views
but if i count the number of this bar in each week is more than the title graphics display
- Marc Mroz
avaldivia - Yes "Viewers" is supposed to be unique people that viewed the video, and "Views" is not unique it's just count of total times a video has been viewed. So yes, a single "viewer" could "view" the video multiple times.
Can you explain this part a bit more? I don't quite understand are you saying that if you count the viewers in the chart that it's more than the total "Viewers" at the top?
Also the bars are not display the same number of the title on the graphics
for example in my case display 12 viewers and 42 views
but if i count the number of this bar in each week is more than the title graphics display
sorry me friend my english is not very fluenly
on the picture thay i upload can you see in blue 7 viewers. so what i understand is the maximun viewers on that video are seven
but is you see the grapchics bellow that number and count from 15/9 to 27/9 there are 9 viewers according with the bars
- Marc Mroz
avaldivia - Thanks for the extra details. That does seem strange to me. I would have expected the same as you. The 7 unique viewers at the top means that only 7 people have ever viewed the file but it doesn't make sense that there are 9 when you count on the graph.
I have a chat started with the engineering team that built this to see if they can explain how it works or determine if there are bugs we need to investigate and fix. I'll let you know when they get back to me.