Why cant I see how many views on my Facebook video?

While you can't see who viewed your Instagram profile, there are two ways you can track the viewers of video content you post on Instagram.

To see who viewed a video on your Instagram story, you'll have to tap the story while it's still live. The total number will appear in the bottom left hand corner. Tap to scroll and view the names of all the users who've watched the story.

For a video posted to your profile feed, tap the label underneath the post. Unfortunately, you can only view the total number of views but not the individual user names. You can, however, view the users who have liked it and, thus, have viewed it.

Here's how to see who viewed your Instagram videos.

Can you see who views your Instagram? 

Instagram offers no way to see who has visited your profile. 

While the list of Instagram profile visits is hidden, you can get a pretty good idea of who has been checking you out when they interact with one of your stories or video posts. 

How to see who viewed one of your Instagram stories

1. Open Instagram on your mobile device.

2. Tap on Your Story – the icon with your profile picture – in the top left hand corner. You can also access your story from your profile page. Both will show a colored ring around your circular profile picture.

Instagram app homepage, with “Your Story” highlighted in the top left corner.

Tap “Your Story.”Stefan Ionescu/Insider

3. Tap Activity in the bottom left corner. 

An Instagram story on the mobile app, with “Activity” highlighted in the bottom left corner.

Tap “Activity.”Stefan Ionescu/Insider

4. You'll see a pop-up with the number of viewers and a list of the people who viewed the video. You can scroll through the list to see their names.

Instagram app, with a pop-up that shows people who viewed your story showing.

You can now see everyone who viewed your Instagram story.Stefan Ionescu/Insider

How to see who viewed your Instagram video

1. Open the Instagram app on your mobile device.

2. Tap the profile icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.

3. Find the video you want to see the views for and tap it.

Note: Videos will have a video player icon in their top right corner to make them easily identifiable.

Instagram app, with the video player icon on a video highlighted.

Check for the video player icon to easily identify your videos.Stefan Ionescu/Insider

4. Underneath the video, you'll see a total number of views as well as a few of the names of those who liked it. Tap on these labels to view more details.

5. In the details, you'll see the total number of views listed again at the very top; the individual viewers' names are not accessible. Scroll the list to see the names of everyone who liked the video, or use the search bar at the top to save time and search for a specific person.

An Instagram video post in the mobile app. It shows the number of people who viewed and liked the video.

ou can see the number of views and a few names of the people who liked your video.Stefan Ionescu/Insider

Note: The views total is only available for videos – for still photos, the details pane will only show the names of those who liked it.

Marissa Perino

Marissa Perino is a former editorial intern covering executive lifestyle. She previously worked at Cold Lips in London and Creative Nonfiction in Pittsburgh. She studied journalism and communications at the University of Pittsburgh, along with creative writing. Find her on Twitter: @mlperino.

Facebook has become a social platform where you can build a community of followers for your brand, product, or discipline. As long as you have a page and have signed up with Facebook business managers, you get access to metrics that lets you build your page better and reach an even wider audience. For example, with these metrics, you can see how many views you have on a Facebook post.

Quick Answer

You can only check how many views you have on a Facebook post if it was made with a page or group. Go to the page you’re an admin of, and click on the post reach on the bottom right of the post. It will show you a count of the views you’ve received on the post, and you can get more insights into the age, country, gender, and device of people viewing your post.

In this article, we’ll see how you can check your post views on Facebook from your page or group.

Table of Contents

Insights And Metrics on Your Facebook Posts

Since its inception as an individual user, Facebook has aimed to connect you with family and friends. And you can do this without worrying about who your posts reach and how you can make them better. The same applies today, but the social platform has evolved significantly to accommodate businesses, brands, and public figures.

These businesses, brands, and public figures are primarily on Facebook to amplify their reach. And with this aim comes the need for metrics provided by Facebook on how their followers interact with their content. Hence, insights and metrics can only be obtained from a Facebook post made by an admin of a Facebook page.

Not only do admins have access to these insights, but editors, analysts, moderators, and job managers also. Hence if you weren’t on a Facebook page before and want to check the views on a Facebook post, you only need to be assigned one of these roles by the admin.

How To Check How Many Views You Have on Your Facebook Post

As an admin, editor, analyst, or job moderator, you can check how many views a post has on Facebook in these simple steps.

  1. Launch your Facebook application.
  2. Navigate to the groups tab from the three-line menu icon on the top right of your feed.
  3. Tap on the group on which you’re assigned a role.
  4. Scroll to the post where you’d like to know the view count.
  5. Check the bottom right of the post to see the number of people the post has reached.

If you promoted the post using Facebook ads, you should get an orange bar where you can get an even more detailed analysis of people who viewed the post. For example, you’ll be able to see how many views came organically and which came from the boost by Facebook.

How To Get More Insights From Facebook on a Post

If you’d love to get more than a general count of the people your post reached, you can do without paying for any feature on Facebook. For instance, you can get a complete breakdown of people who viewed your post in terms of the country they’re from, age, gender, city, and device. To do this, follow these simple steps.

  1. Go to Facebook’s website or launch the mobile app.
  2. Navigate to the page or group.
  3. In the page’s menu, tap the “Insights” tab.
  4. Click on “Posts.”
  5. Select the post you want to get more insights into.

Facebook will give you details of the people engaging from this tab. So, for example, you’ll be able to tell what demographic is engaging your content, when they’re doing so, and from what devices.

How To Check How Many People Liked/Dislike Your Facebook Post

Facebook’s insights also let you know how many people like or dislike your posts. In addition, it’ll give you a time range, so you’ll be checking cumulated likes on posts within a day if you made multiple posts. This will also show you what likes are organic and which ones are paid for. So if you want to check this, these are the steps involved.

  1. Navigate to your Facebook page.
  2. Click on the menu icon.
  3. Tap the “Insights” tab.
  4. Click on “Likes.”
  5. Set a window for the dates/days you want to check.

You’ll see a chart showing how likes were distributed over the selected days. However, if you want to get the cumulative likes or dislikes over those days, scroll down, and you’ll see the “Total page likes” tab with the value in front of it.

Conclusion

With this article, you can check how many views you have on a Facebook post and do more with the insights tab you get on a Facebook page. So, get your insights and utilize the detailed breakdown to build your page better!

How can I see views on my Facebook video?

How do I see insights for my Page's videos on Facebook?.
Tap in the top right of Facebook..
Tap Pages, then go to your Page..
Tap Insights at the top of your Page..
Scroll down to Videos..

How do I turn on the number of views on Facebook?

Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook. Click Settings & Privacy, then click Feed Preferences. Click Reaction Preferences. Next to On your posts, click the toggle to turn this setting off at any time.

Did Facebook remove video views?

First off, Facebook is removing its 10-second video view metrics, which includes '10-Second Video Views', 'Cost per 10-Second Video View' and 'Unique 10-Second Video Views'.

Can you see who views your videos on Facebook 2022?

Final Thoughts. Currently, it's not possible to know who viewed your shared videos on Facebook. Similar to the Stories feature, you cannot see the identity of your viewers for privacy reasons. However, you can view your live viewers during a Facebook Live broadcast.