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Posting windows: when your own content did best
How the posting-window chart works: average views by publishing hour in UTC and a day-by-hour map, shown only after 6 posts with views. Pro and Studio.
- Charts
- Best posting hours (avg views) and Day and hour
- Clock
- UTC, the time zone the platforms return
- Needs
- 6 posts with a publish time and at least one view; 2 in the same hour before it is named
- Ignored
- Posts still at zero views
- Data
- The latest 10 posts of each connected account
- Plans
- Pro and Studio
What the chart computes
For every post with a publish time and at least one view, the app takes the hour it went live (UTC) and averages the views of all posts published in that hour. The 24-hour chart shows every hour, including the empty ones, because a gap means you never posted then. The Day and hour map does the same for each weekday and hour, keeping only the cells that hold at least one post.
When it stays silent
Below 6 rated posts the app says how many more it needs instead of naming an hour, and an hour is only called out when at least 2 posts were published in it. Posts at zero views are left out, because they lower every hour equally and make the one hour with a successful post look like the best.
How to read it
It describes what already happened to your last 10 posts per account; it is not a forecast. A good hour is a candidate to test, not a promise. YouTube itself says publish time is not known to affect a video’s long-term performance and matters most for early views, Live and Premieres. Use the chart to choose one slot, publish there a few times and compare videos at the same age.
Converting to your time zone
Hours are shown in UTC. Add your offset to read them locally: 18:00 UTC is 20:00 in Rome in summer time and 19:00 in winter.
Sources
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