We reported there was a “glitch” in the YouTube Studio data that was reporting live views for YouTube Posts, specifically YouTube Image Posts, a few weeks ago. As of Monday, April 13th, 2026, YouTube Studio is now show all live views for YouTube Image Posts.
Interestingly, we are not able to click on a YouTube Image Post and grind into the data deeper within YouTube Studio. We suspect that will come in the near future with the next major YouTube Studio app update.
Since early April 2026 we have been reporting on the increased amplification of YouTube Image Posts in the YouTube Shorts Feed. The reason most creators were not sharing Image posts or polls/quizzes was the fact there was no way to track how successful these posts were. Now we can.
As we continue to move forward with Google challenging Instagram, we can expect to see more and more analytical data available to help creators grow their audience for still images, polls and quizzes.
If you are looking for the realtime live views on YouTube Studio, you will notice the Short form videos are the tall and narrow thumbnails and the Image post are the rectangular and long thumbnails in the image below.
If you have posted a YouTube Image in the last 24 hours and it is getting views on the YouTube Shorts Feed, you will immediately notice this piece of content showing up in the YouTube Studio realtime data.
With YouTube Short form videos you can click on the thumbnail or title of the video and get much more data including how viewers found the video, engagement on the video and type of audience. In fact, there are dozens of pieces of realtime data that help creators better understand how people find their videos.
This type of analytical data is not available for YouTube Image posts yet, but it will be coming shortly. We are seeing the total number of live viewers for the last 60 minutes and the last 24 hours now include the views of YouTube Image posts.