YouTube Sync
What Voxlode imports, how long sync takes, and what to do if something looks wrong.
Updated 2026-06-13
What sync imports
When you connect a YouTube channel and run sync, Voxlode imports:
- Video metadata — title, type (long-form, Short, livestream), privacy status, publish date, duration
- Daily performance stats per video — views, watch time, average view duration, subscribers gained and lost
- Channel-level daily rollups — views, watch time, net subscriber change
Sync imports recent history. The further back the data window goes, the longer the initial sync takes.
How long sync takes
For smaller channels, the first sync completes in under a minute. For larger channels with hundreds of videos, sync runs as a background job — chunked at 25 videos at a time — to stay within YouTube API limits.
The header shows sync progress while a job is running. When sync completes, you receive a toast notification and the dashboard updates automatically.
Running sync again
You can trigger a fresh sync from Settings at any time. Voxlode will pull the latest analytics for any videos that have been updated since the last sync.
Sync is also queued automatically when new analytics are available from YouTube’s reporting pipeline.
If sync data looks wrong
The most common causes:
- Wrong channel selected — check Settings > Connected Channels and confirm the channel name and recent uploads match what you expected
- Data delay from YouTube — YouTube analytics can have a 24–48 hour processing lag. Stats from very recent uploads may not yet be final
- Mixed content types — check the content type filter on Overview and Videos if aggregate numbers look off. Shorts and long-form have different performance baselines