After checkout, you connect a YouTube channel with Google OAuth. Token storage is encrypted. Analytics, revenue, and metadata access is read-only. Comment management and caption-track access use the scopes shown on Google's consent screen. TubeAnalytics cannot publish or delete videos, edit video metadata, or change channel settings.
Dashboard figures for a connected channel are pulled from the YouTube Data API and the YouTube Analytics API using that channel’s own authorization. View counts, watch time, CPM, RPM, retention, and audience breakdowns in your workspace are the same class of first-party data you already see in YouTube Studio — presented in TubeAnalytics reports rather than estimated from public page scrapes.
Competitor rows are different. Public competitor tracking does not unlock another creator’s private revenue, CTR, or audience exports. Methodology pages spell out that split so a sales conversation cannot treat a public view graph as if it were authenticated earnings.
Benchmarks that appear in-product are directional. Niche, geography, and channel size change what a “healthy” metric looks like. They are not a substitute for a verified customer case study, and this page will not recast a benchmark as someone else’s result.