The facebook API provides video stats via 'Page Video Views' and 'Video Insighs'.

'Page Video Views' has the metric page_video_views (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v13.0/insights#videoviews).

'Video Insighs' has the metric total_video_views (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/video/video_insights/).

Apart from the 'period', are these 2 metrics fundamentally referring to the same stats?

I also know about post_video_views, but this one seems a bit more straightforward in understanding.

EDIT: based on further reading of ‘Page Video Views’, the metrics here seem to be the combined stats of all the videos on a page. This metric doesn’t break the stats down into individual videos. So it just gives an overall sense of how people are engaging with all the videos on the Page.

Possible conclusion -> 'Page Video Views' give overall stats of all video combined that can be broken down into daily. Video Insights give stats for individual videos but only for lifetime.

Can somebody confirm this?

CodePudding user response：

Videos can be "crossposted", meaning the same video can be used on multiple different pages.

https://www.facebook.com/help/678485232304895:

Crossposting is a way to use videos across multiple Pages.

The page_video_views metric is for videos that played directly on your page. That's for all the videos on your page. post_video_views would be for one specific post, containing a specific video.

total_video_views is a metric for an individual video. That includes all views, across all pages where the video might have been used.