YouTube Gaming Analytics & Channel Database

FAQ

• What does the YouTube Gaming rankings page measure?

  Only live streaming activity is ranked here: Average Concurrent Viewers during broadcasts, Peak Viewers, Hours Watched and Airtime over 7 or 30 days. Uploaded videos and Shorts are outside the scope, so a channel with a huge VOD library but little live output ranks on what it actually streamed.

• Why do the numbers differ from a channel's YouTube subscriber count?

  Subscriber counts cover an entire channel and everything it has ever published. The figures here describe live audience: how many people were watching concurrently while the channel was broadcasting. Large subscriber bases regularly translate into modest live viewership, and the gap between the two is often the most useful thing on the page.

• Which YouTube channels are included?

  Channels with meaningful live streaming activity in the period — the table filters out sessions too short to produce a reliable average, so one-off test streams do not distort the ranking.

• Can I see which games a YouTube channel streams?

  Yes. Each channel's Airtime is broken down by category, both in the games column of the table and in full on the channel page, together with recent streams and their individual viewership.

• How do I find YouTube live streamers in a specific language or country?

  Use the language filter, which reads the language of the broadcast itself rather than the channel's interface setting, and the country filter for the creator's location. Both combine with the game and viewer-range filters.