What are the metrics we should keep a tab on apart from CTR?

[Mansoor]

This might be a bit lengthy post as we will try to provide entire background. At the same time, taking efforts to reduce the noise.

We started with YouTube channel and enabled monetization.

After a few days, our AdSense account got disabled due to Invalid activity

We researched and found that CTR rate was high

So, after a month, we were back in business and we started uploading new contents

Then a few days back, our AdSense account got disabled again

We reviewed reports and saw view time from Playlists seems to have contributed almost 50% of whole watch time

We identified that one of friend was playing our videos in a loop

Even though his intention was not to cause any trouble but since he was not aware of the terms, we didn’t make a big scene

However, he has agreed that he wouldn’t do this henceforth

We also thought, it’s not CTR but also views are something we need to keep tab on

As of now, our channel is disabled.

We have a couple of questions to you experts to help us stand up on our feet.


What are the metrics we should keep an eye on? As of now, we know CTR and Views are something we should keep hang on.

Please help!