YouTube Live Viewer Count

Concurrent viewers is the number of people watching a livestream at this exact moment, and it constantly moves up and down as people join and leave. Total view count is a separate, cumulative number that only ever counts upward over the life of the video and includes everyone who has watched any part of it, live or replay. If you want a video's all time view total instead of its live audience, try our YouTube view counter.

A concurrent viewer count only exists while a broadcast is actively live on YouTube. If a video was just a regular upload, has already ended, or has not started broadcasting yet, YouTube does not expose a live viewer number for it. Paste the link to a stream that is live right now and the counter will appear automatically.

Once a stream is confirmed live, we check YouTube's official API every 10 seconds and animate the counter to the new number. This keeps the figure close to what you would see on the stream's own YouTube watch page while being respectful of YouTube's servers.

Yes. As long as the video is public and currently broadcasting live, you can check it here. Just paste the full stream URL (including youtu.be short links and youtube.com/live links), or the plain 11 character video ID, into the box above.

Absolutely. Our live viewer counter is completely free, with no login, sign up, or installation required. Check as many livestreams as you like and embed the counter on your own site or OBS overlay at no cost.

YouTube's own on page viewer count and the number returned by its API can be a few seconds out of sync with each other, and YouTube sometimes smooths the figure during very large events. Small differences of a handful of viewers are normal, and both numbers reflect the same underlying live audience.