YouTube Quietly Removes Insight Analytics From Video Pages UPDATED

At the end of last week YouTube made some changes to their video pages. The 'Embed' button on YouTube video pages moved to a different part of the page and YouTube also removed the view analytics that used to be available on all video pages. Did you notice the change?

At the end of last week I noticed that the ‘Embed’ button on YouTube video pages moved to a different part of the page. However, it wasn’t until over the weekend that I realized that the ‘Embed’ button wasn’t the only thing that changed on YouTube’s video pages. YouTube also removed the view analytics that used to be available on all video pages.

You may remember that, up until a few days ago, you could click a carat next to the number of views on a YouTube video to open up more information, including a chart that showed the view pattern over time, as well as information about Honors the video had received (i.e.

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