The much needed feature for content owners that is missing from long time is the usage analytics. Analytics helps content producers to get an idea of how their content is consumed. This will help them to fine tune content to user needs. YouTube has finally released a analytics tool for the hosted videos. Although there are only basic analytics but those are really useful for a lot of content producers.

The new tool is named as Youtube Insight which gives information on how often a video is viewed in different geographical locations, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. To access this feature click on “About This Video” button under My Account > Videos, Favorites, Playlists > Manage my videos.

Third party tool TubeMogul also provides analytics for videos uploaded to Video sharing sites including Youtube. Related: Heyspread