Platform Analytics
Exactly what YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, and Twitch each report to Creaon — followers, views, watch time, and other real metrics — and, honestly, what none of them can.
Why each platform gets its own view
Creaon doesn't force every platform into one identical metric model. YouTube exposes far more than Twitch ever will, Instagram's richest data can't be tied to an individual post the way YouTube's can, and X's post-level numbers are currently blocked at the source. Rather than averaging that away, each platform gets its own dedicated view built only from what that platform actually provides.
YouTube
The richest platform view, by a wide margin:
- Per-video: views, likes, comments, watch time, shares, and average view percentage (a ratio of how much of the video is typically watched, never summed into a total).
- Channel totals: subscriber count, video count, and lifetime total views.
- Daily channel figures: subscribers gained/lost, watch time (minutes), and views/likes/comments/shares for that specific day — separate from the lifetime totals above.
- Traffic sources — where views come from, per video, per day.
- Channel breakdowns — device, operating system, playback location, and content type (Shorts vs. long-form vs. Live).
- Audience demographics — age and gender, refreshed at most about once a week rather than every sync, since this data moves slowly.
Impressions and click-through rate are not implemented for YouTube in Creaon today — everything above is real, this specific pair simply isn't there yet.
TikTok
- Per-video: views, likes, comments, and shares.
- Account totals: followers, following, video count, and total likes.
TikTok doesn't currently supply traffic sources, audience demographics, or historical breakdowns in Creaon — only the per-video and account totals above. A connection made before these analytics permissions existed won't show them until it's reconnected.
Instagram's account-level data is real and complete: followers, following, and a full set of daily engagement figures (reach, profile views, website clicks, accounts engaged, total interactions, likes, comments, shares, saves, replies, and profile link taps).
Per-media insights (reach, likes, comments, shares, saves, views, and — for Reels — watch time) are also real, but Creaon's Instagram publishing never links a published post back to a specific Calendar entry, for any post, organic or Creaon-published. That data feeds the day-level totals and the trend chart, but it can't appear in a per-post breakdown like Top-performing post or the Posts tab, because there's no individual post record for it to attach to.
X
Account-level totals are real and working: followers, following, post count, media count, and how many lists you appear on.
Post-level metrics (likes, replies, reposts, bookmarks, and — on a paid X API tier — impressions) are built into Creaon, but currently blocked for every connected account: X's own API is returning a billing/credits error on every request that would return this data, independent of anything Creaon does. Until that changes on X's side, per-post X analytics won't populate even though the capability exists.
Twitch
Twitch is genuinely more limited than the other four platforms, and Creaon doesn't pretend otherwise. What's real: your current total follower count, your channel's current live/offline status (and viewer count while live), basic channel info, and a list of your recent VODs and clips with title, duration, view count, and thumbnail.
What's not available: Twitch's API exposes no likes, comments, or shares for VODs or clips at all, and no historical viewer or session data whatsoever — so there's no engagement metric or past-stream performance chart for Twitch, not because Creaon hasn't built one, but because that data doesn't exist to read.