YouTube Analytics: Troubleshooting

Missing Video IDs

Some video IDs may occasionally be missing from fetched data. This is a known YouTube API issue affecting all users. Missing video IDs may appear in subsequent fetches while other IDs become missing. This must be fixed by YouTube.

Subscriber count discrepancies

YouTube changed subscriber count reporting. For channels with more than 1,000 subscribers, counts are rounded down to three significant figures. For example, 123,456 subscribers reports as 123,000.

Negative values for likes and dislikes

Negative values such as -1 for likes or dislikes indicate users removed their previous engagement (un-liked or un-disliked).

Partnership Program status errors

Error “We could not retrieve the selected metrics. Please verify your Youtube Partnership Program status [Forbidden]” means YouTube restricted access to ad-related metrics because no ads were purchased in a certain period. Remove ad-related metrics from your datastream configuration to resolve this issue.