Total Post video views count should be greater than Ads video views In some instances, such as the example we're discussing, it appears that the count for Ads video views exceeds the total Post video views count.

10226560 (post video views) 10226583 ( ad Views)

This is the data that is present in API.

(total video views)

API curl --location 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=7uTALsFfxME&part=id%2Cstatistics%2CcontentDetails' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>'

API Response:

"statistics": { "viewCount": "10226560", "likeCount": "0", "dislikeCount": "0", "favoriteCount": "0", "commentCount": "0" }

(Ad views )

API Curl : curl --location 'https://youtubeanalytics.googleapis.com/v2/reports?endDate=2023-09-10&key=AIzaSyBg99bp_HCIXNJTft_acKb2oJ52p8gVSDE&metrics=views&filters=video%3D%3D7uTALsFfxME&ids=channel%3D%3DUCRLOjeT82M_8CyLj0BqvRaQ&quotaUser=UCRLOjeT82M_8CyLj0BqvRaQ&startDate=2023-01-11&dimensions=insightTrafficSourceType' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>'

API Response:

[ "ADVERTISING", 10226583 ]

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