YouTube adds heatmaps to 360 videos, showing you where viewers are looking
YouTube has added heatmaps to popular 360 videos, showing where viewers are looking. Update : Scott of Foundry 45 shared a video of a heatmap. See below. YouTube added 360 heatmaps to analytics tools, letting you see where viewers are spending the most time looking. Last year, heatmaps were added by Facebook, but the threshold was quite high at 50,000 unique viewers (not views). YouTube's heatmap has a threshold of only 1,000 views . To see the heatmaps for your videos, click here . You can also go to your Video Manager and then see the new 360 Heatmaps tool under Analytics. You can see the heatmap and how it changes as the video plays. Update : Scott of Foundry 45 shared this video of a heatmap: There is a separate heatmap for desktop viewers and for mobile viewers. In my videos, it seems that desktop viewers are much more likely to look around, while mobile viewers stay mostly in the original view. Sample 1 (top: desktop; bottom:...