Analytics & Insights: Know Exactly What's Working and Why

The dashboard brings the numbers that decide a short video's reach into one place: how many viewers each opening holds through the first three seconds, where attention drops across the video, and which variation of a hook wins when two are tested against each other. It is built for the decisions a daily series actually needs: which topics to repeat, which hooks to retire, and which format to scale.

It is coming soon. Start your ShortFast trial from this page and you are first in line for early access.

ShortFast publishes through the official TikTok, YouTube and Instagram APIs, so each video is an ordinary post on your account and each platform's own analytics show everything: views, average watch time, retention by second, traffic sources and follows. Read retention in YouTube Studio for Shorts, in TikTok's analytics for each post, and in Instagram Insights for Reels.

Inside ShortFast you see your video library and credit use, also available from GET /api/v1/stats, and 11 webhook events let your own tools log every video as it is made and published, next to the metrics you export from each platform.

Start with retention in the first three seconds, then completion rate, then follows per view. Views are an output of those three, not a lever of their own. Strong early retention with weak completion is a body problem; weak early retention is a hook problem.

Judge patterns, not single videos. Short-form results are highly skewed, so a handful of videos tells you little. Across twenty or thirty episodes of a series, the topics, formats and hook styles that hold attention become readable.