Realtime analytics

Open a video in Studio just after publishing and the realtime card gives you estimated views for the last 48 hours and the last 60 minutes, refreshed within minutes. It exists to tell you a video is alive. YouTube is explicit that these are estimates of potential activity and might not match the watch page, because it takes the systems time to work out which views are legitimate. The expanded report lets you compare the two windows and filter long-form against Shorts. Reading a launch off the 60-minute graph and deleting the video because it looks slow is the mistake here.