Viewer counts across platforms

ApexStream tracks how many people are watching on each connected platform while you're live, so you can see your audience grow across every destination in one place.

• While you're live, ApexStream checks in with YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch roughly every 60 seconds and records how many people are currently watching on each one.
• Destinations you send to with a manual stream key — like LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, X, or a custom RTMP destination — don't report viewer numbers back to ApexStream, so they won't appear in this tracking.
• On a stream's analytics page, this becomes the Engagement Timeline — a chart broken out by platform so you can see how your audience on each one changed over the course of the broadcast. The chart also marks the moment your combined audience was largest.
• Peak Viewers is the highest combined concurrent count your stream reached — the total across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch added together at any single check-in. It shows up as a stat on the overview page, and is marked directly on the Engagement Timeline for each individual stream.
• Each platform's number comes straight from that platform's own reporting, so if a connection is down or has expired, that platform will read zero until it's reconnected.

Good to know: Because each platform reports its own viewer count independently, there's no cross-platform dedupe — someone watching your stream on both YouTube and Facebook is counted once on each. Peak Viewers is the sum across your connected platforms, not a count of unique people.