Usage

The Usage Summary report provides the following analytics:

OVERVIEW

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BREAKDOWN

Indicates the number of hours that your ads, live channels, live events, and VOD assets were watched.

HOURS WATCHED BY PLAYBACK CONTEXT (STACKED BAR)

This bar chart, which shows the number of hours that your content was watched (aka playback hours), contains a color-coded bar for the following content types:

• Channel: Live channels
• Event: Live events
• VOD: On-demand content

Additionally, the top of each bar indicates the total number of playback hours for the time period indicated in the x-axis.

VIEWS BY PLAYBACK CONTEXT

This line chart contains color-coded lines that track the number of times that your live channels (Channel Views), live events (Event Views), and on-demand content (VOD Views) were viewed.

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN

This report shows the following statistics for each country:

PLAYBACK HOURS BY PLATFORM

Breaks down your audience by operating system.

Generate the Usage Summary Report

1. Navigate to the Usage Summary page. From the main menu, click Analytics and then select Usage Summary from the left-hand pane.
2. Click on the Controls bar to define this report.
3. Optional: Generate a report for a different time period. From the Time Range option, select either:
   • Predefined date range (e.g., Previous day, This day, and Last n days).
   • Custom date range: From the Date range option, set a start and end date/time.
   
   By default, all dates/times are specified in UTC.
4. Optional: Generate a report for a different or multiple accounts:
   a. Click on the Account drop-down.
   b. Optional. Search for an account by typing its name.
   c. Add accounts to the report by marking the desired accounts.
   d. Remove accounts from the report by clearing the desired accounts.
5. Optional: Change the granularity of this report by selecting the desired interval from the Granularity option.

Multi-CDN Summary

The Multi-CDN Summary report provides statistics for the distribution of your content via CDNs:

PLAYBACK

Indicates the total numbers of hours that your content was watched (aka playback hours) broken down by customer account and CDN.

CDN DISTRIBUTION

This pie chart contains a slice for each CDN through which your content was distributed.

PLAYBACK BY CONTENT TYPE

Indicates the total numbers of hours that your content was watched (aka playback hours) broken down by each unique combination of customer account, CDN, and one of the following content types:

• Channel: Live channels
• Event: Live events
• VOD: On-demand content

CONTENT TYPE DISTRIBUTION

This bar chart, which shows the number of hours that your content was watched (aka playback hours), contains a color-coded bar for each unique combination of CDN and one of the following content types:

• Channel: Live channels
• Event: Live events
• VOD: On-demand content

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN

Indicates the total numbers of hours that your content was watched (aka playback hours) broken down by each unique combination of CDN, country, and one of the following content types:

• Channel: Live channels
• Event: Live events
• VOD: On-demand content

This report is useful to analyze CDN usage when leveraging our Multi-CDN solution.

Generate the Multi-CDN Summary report

1. Navigate to the Multi-CDN Summary page. From the main menu, click Analytics and then select Multi-CDN Summary from the left-hand pane.
2. Click on the Controls bar to define this report.
3. Optional. Generate a report for a different time period. From the Time Range option, select either:
   • Predefined date range (e.g., Previous day, This day, and Last n days).
   • Custom date range. From the Date range option, set a start and end date/time.
   
   By default, all dates/times are specified in UTC.
4. Optional: Generate a report for a different or multiple accounts:
   a. Click on the Account drop-down.
   b. Optional. Search for an account by typing its name.
   c. Add accounts to the report by marking the desired accounts.
   d. Remove accounts from the report by clearing the desired accounts.
5. Optional. Filter report data by live event(s).
   a. Click on the Event drop-down to filter by live events.
   b. Mark the live event that will be included in the report.
   c. Clear the live event that will be excluded from the report.
6. Optional. Change the granularity of this report by selecting the desired interval from the Granularity option.