Use the History tab in YouTube Studio Content Manager to track changes to your assets. Review metadata, policy, ownership, and asset merge changes, or learn how to troubleshoot related issues.
Find your asset history
Your asset history is available for the duration of your ownership of a given asset, as long as the changes were made by your YouTube Studio Content Manager users.
Asset updates made before November 2023 will display only daily update summaries. Going forward, all new asset updates will be displayed as separate events. Events may take several hours to show up in your asset history.
To view an asset's history:
- Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
- From the left menu, select Assets
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- Click the title of the asset you want to review.
- Click History
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- From the “Revision” column, click on a row to review the asset’s metadata, policy, or ownership. Asset merges are displayed as “Events.”
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and enter the desired date range.Review your asset ownership history
When you review asset ownership updates, you can use additional filters to narrow down your search, including:
- Territory: Asset ownership based on country/region
- Other party: Other asset owners who updated their ownership on your assets
- Show any issues: Territories where there are ownership conflicts on your assets
- Show only my territories: Territories where you own assets
- Ownership changes: View pre-existing or new revisions made to your ownership territories for assets you own
- Ownership conflicts: View pre-existing ownership conflicts, or revisions that created conflicts on assets you own
View bulk action history
Use the “Bulk updates” tab in Studio Content Manager to view bulk actions carried out across assets, claimed videos, campaigns, and channels that you own. From the bulk actions view, you can find:
- Action taken
- Volume of entities updated
- Bulk action status
- Timestamps
- User history
To view bulk Action history:
- Sign into Studio Content Manager.
- From the left menu, select Content Updates
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- Click Bulk actions to view bulk actions.
View Composition asset ownership history
To review Composition View Asset History, follow the steps below. Composition Share history is not yet available for review.
- Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
- From the left menu, select Assets.
- Click the title of the Composition asset whose history you want to see.
- From the left menu, select Sound recordings.
- Click on the title of a Sound Recording whose history you want to see.
- From the left menu, under Composition, select History.
- Click on a Revision row to display changes (Events).
- You can also click Events to open a dialog with additional information.
- You can filter by the revision timeline.
Revision Types
- Metadata: View changes in asset metadata.
- Policy: See history of any policy changes (track, monetize, block).
- Ownership: Review ownership changes by right type (sync, mech, perf, lyric) by territory.
- This view is pre-filtered to territories where you have rights.
- Territories with more than 100% ownership are flagged with red ‘!’.
Troubleshoot issues using your asset history
Use your asset history to troubleshoot issues related to your assets and claims. Find common issues and solutions detailed below.
| Issue | Troubleshooting steps |
| Claimed video not monetizing for a given period of time | Use the History tab to check for policy and ownership changes on the asset. Monetization might be impacted if:
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| Missing data in YouTube Analytics | Identify the timeframe when the data went missing. Then, use the History tab to check for ownership changes around that time. If you didn’t have ownership at that time, the asset will not appear in your Analytics. |
| Wrong asset metadata | Use the History tab to determine who delivered the metadata, and whether it’s up-to-date. Redeliver metadata if necessary. |