About LiveCount

LiveCount tracks YouTube subscriber counts and publishes an estimate of where each channel stands right now, along with our own analysis of how it is growing and where that growth leads. It is free, it works without an account, and it does not withhold the real number behind a payment.

There are a lot of live subscriber counters. Almost all of them share a quiet dishonesty: YouTube rounds public subscriber counts to three significant figures, so the smoothly ticking number on those sites cannot be a measurement, and they do not say so. A reader watching a number climb has no way to tell whether they are seeing a fresh reading or an extrapolation from three days ago.

The whole design of this site follows from refusing that. Every count carries a badge — live, estimated, or stale. The counter says which of four possible signals its growth rate came from, in plain English. The uncertain trailing digits are visibly dimmed. Projections are labelled as projections and given a range rather than a false point. The methodology page explains the arithmetic in full, including the part we previously got wrong.

Subscriber and view figures come from the YouTube Data API and belong to their owners. Reprinting them would not be publishing anything. What is ours is the layer built on top: the readings we record over time, the growth-rate estimation, the uncertainty model, the projections and their confidence bands, the milestone timing, the rankings across the channels we track, and the written analysis on each channel page.

None of that exists anywhere else, because it is derived from a measurement history we take ourselves rather than from anything YouTube publishes.

LiveCount is an independent project, not a company, and has no relationship with YouTube or Google. It is run by one person and paid for by advertising, which is why there are ads on the channel pages — the YouTube API quota, the database and the hosting all cost money, and the alternative was to paywall the number, which would defeat the point.

Corrections, complaints and questions all go to support@livecount.space, and are read by a person. If a number on this site is wrong, telling us is genuinely useful: see the contact page for what to include.

We publish estimates, and we label them as estimates. We do not present a projection as a prediction, we do not describe a channel’s performance in promotional language, and the automatically written analysis is instructed not to congratulate anyone or address their audience — it reads the numbers, nothing more, and it is labelled as machine-written wherever it appears.

When we find an error in our own model we say so in public rather than quietly changing the output. There is an example of exactly that on the methodology page.