Forum Discussion
Stream Video Views
To add to what Amit said in terms of deeper statistics / view trends...
We'll be first working on adding to Stream a trend of views/vistoros overtime along with a drop off chart showing which part of a video people watched (and didn't watch).
(We'll be doing this work first to match what we have already in this regaurd in O365 Video so we can sooner transition customers from O365 Video to Stream.)
For "Who viewed the video" we hear this quite often but aren't working on it yet. When we pick up this project in the future we'll have to be careful on how we build it and what we expose. There are some restrictions in EU work council's on what can be tracked about individuals.
As Amit mentioned... it would be helpful if you added yoru ideas around deeper statistics, view counts, and who watched a video as new ideas in the Stream ideas forum. I just took a look and didn't see these ideas tracked there yet. If you add your ideas as seperate items others can vote and comment on them as well.
Stream Ideas Forum: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeas
Eric Wiewiora Thanks for your message. For the second part of your questions regarding artificially making a video trending, our view and trending algroithms do take care of that. Without getting into too many details, a view count is only counted when a user watches a video for a specific amount of time AND a view count is only counted for each user every 24 hours. So if you went and watched a video, and went back 5 minutes later to watch again, you should not see an increased view count (from yourself). Obviously if another user watched the video, you would see an increase. Additionally, the trending algorithm is a time decaying, so your single view count per day should not affect the trending algorithm (depening on the number of videos in the system - for example, if its the only video, it will be the only video trending).
As for the deeper analytics, we currently do not have deeper analytics on a per video level. Sounds like you would be interested in this feature and I encourage you to add it to our ideas sections. In this deeper view of viewership analytics, it could include a unique viewer count, drop of times for viewers, etc
As you mentioned "view count is only counted when a user watches a video for a specific amount of time"
How "Specific amount of time" is calculated for videos in order to get the count increased? Video is divided into 10 segments. Is it first segment then count get increased?
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
The "specific amount of time" is a few seconds. I forget the number we ended up using, but basically if the person watches for like 3-6 seconds and they haven't watched the video already in a 24 hour period, then they'll get counted as a new view for the video.
You are asking about Stream right? The 10 segments thing you mentioned sounds more like what we did for the "drop off chart" in O365 Video. What Amit and I metion above is only for Stream.
For O365 Video we weren't as fancy, we count a view count as soon as you load the video player page or click play on embed.
as an Alternative solution till VIEW COUNT is not accurate Is there any way to hide the video statistics?
Savita Mittal - Why do you believe the view counts are not accurate?
We are using office 365 videos portal not stream as of now.
I am looking for more purging clicks and caching. Is there any way get all the count before MS purge the clicks?MS mentioned about CDN caching as well. If the video is played from cache then also count doesnt get incremented.
View Count is not accurate.