Track YouTube Shorts views for every creator in your UGC program. Paste each creator's channel and Viralytics pulls their Shorts from YouTube's official API, keeps the numbers current, and shows what each creator is costing you per 1,000 views.
How to track YouTube Shorts views
Running creators on more than YouTube Shorts? Viralytics tracks TikTok and Instagram in the same dashboard — see UGC tracking software for the full picture, or what a good UGC CPM is.
Every Short from every creator's channel, with counts from YouTube itself.
| Metric | What you get |
|---|---|
| Views | Views per Short from the YouTube Data API, updated on every sync |
| Likes & comments | Per Short, updated on every sync |
| Duration | Length of each Short (Shorts are up to 3 minutes) |
| Title, thumbnail & post date | Find any Short at a glance and see when it went live |
| Subscribers | Each creator's channel subscriber count |
| CPM & earnings | What you paid ÷ Shorts views × 1,000 per creator, and what each creator is owed |
Only Shorts are tracked: videos longer than 3 minutes are filtered out so long-form uploads don't skew your views or CPM.
No YouTube Studio access, no creator logins.
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Add a creator with their youtube.com/@handle or /channel link. Set a start date so only Shorts made for your program count.
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Each daily sync pulls the channel's recent uploads from YouTube's API, keeps the Shorts, and updates their views, likes, and comments.
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Views, CPM, and earnings per creator, ranked — next to the same creators' TikToks and Reels.
Shorts are usually a cross-post. Viralytics tracks them properly anyway.
Shorts views, likes, and comments come from the YouTube Data API — the same numbers YouTube shows publicly.
Videos over 3 minutes are left out automatically, so a creator's vlog or podcast upload never inflates their Shorts views.
Flat fee per Short, a CPM rate, or base + milestone bonuses. Shorts often pay a lower base than TikTok, so rates can be set per platform.
Each Short's views are snapshotted 15 days after posting and used for pay, so slow-burn views can't reopen a bonus later.
Set when a creator joined your program and older Shorts on their channel stay out of your numbers, CPM, and limits.
Send each creator a private link to their Shorts, views, and earnings — no YouTube Studio screenshots needed.
Paying creators per view or with bonuses? See how UGC payout software works →
Tracking Shorts by hand
With Viralytics
Most creators cross-post. Viralytics puts their TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube posts side by side, with rates and payouts set per platform.
Add each creator's YouTube channel link to Viralytics. On every daily sync it pulls the channel's recent uploads from the YouTube Data API, keeps the Shorts, and updates their views, likes, and comments — so you can see every creator's Shorts performance, CPM, and earnings without opening YouTube Studio.
No. Viralytics reads public channel data through the official YouTube Data API, so creators don't log in, share YouTube Studio access, or grant any permissions. You only need their channel link or @handle.
No. Viralytics is built for Shorts: any video longer than 3 minutes is filtered out, so long-form uploads don't affect a creator's views, CPM, or payouts.
Every daily sync fetches each creator's recent uploads from YouTube and updates the views, likes, and comments on their Shorts.
Views, likes, comments, duration, title, thumbnail, and post date for every Short, each creator's subscriber count, and the effective CPM and earnings for each creator based on what you pay them.
Yes. Set a flat fee per Short, a CPM rate, or base plus view-milestone bonuses, with Shorts rates separate from TikTok and Instagram, and Viralytics calculates what each creator is owed from their Shorts views.
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Paste your creators' YouTube channels and see views, CPM, and payouts for every Short today.