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Playthrough/Performance (Analytics Metric)

Performance refers to how much of your videos have been seen by all viewers. Performance is a detailed graph of how many of your viewers see each part of your video (divided into 1% increments).
Example: A playthrough of 75% means that your viewers see 3/4 of your video content on average. For performance this could mean 100% of your viewers have seen the first percentile of your video with only 50% of your viewers seeing the 100% percentile - alternatively, it could mean that every single viewer has seen the first 75% of your video and none of your viewers have seen the last 25% of your video.
Playthrough should be used as an overall indication of video performance, while the actual performance graph should be used to track actual video content seen, and is especially helpful for analyzing a single video at a time.

Dan Duffett

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