What this is
GTA Pulse is a free, live dashboard of the GTA 6 launch: how many people are watching on Twitch, Kick and YouTube right now, the biggest streams, the most viewed clips, and the hype around the game.
It is an independent fan-made tracker. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. "GTA 6" is used only to describe what we track. Game images come from Rockstar Games' public media page and are credited where they appear.
How we count
Every 5 minutes we read the viewer count of every GTA 6 stream we can see and add them up. Each platform is covered differently, and every combined number says so: Twitch (all streams) + Kick (all streams) + tracked YouTube streams.
- Numbers on the site are at most a few minutes old. Every panel shows when it was last updated, and anything older than 15 minutes gets a DELAYED label.
- Before launch, the live numbers cover GTA V streams.
- We call something a "record" only when it beats a published benchmark, and we name the benchmark and its source. Everything else is a "new peak" or the "highest since we started tracking".
- Hours watched are always estimates.
- A channel that jumps more than 3× between two readings is held out of highlights until a person checks it.
Sources
| Data | Source | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| Twitch | Twitch Helix API, every stream in the category | every 5 min |
| Kick | Kick Public API, every stream in the category | every 5 min |
| YouTube | YouTube Data API, live streams found by search plus a hand-kept watchlist | search every 30 min, viewers every 5 min |
| Twitch clips | Twitch Helix, most viewed clips of the last 24 h | every 15 min |
| YouTube Shorts | YouTube Data API, most viewed Shorts of the last 24 h | every 2 h |
| Posts on X | X API recent counts, retweets excluded | every hour |
| Trailer views | YouTube Data API | every 10 min |
| Steam | Steam Web API, current GTA V players | every 5 min |
| Wikipedia | Wikimedia pageviews for the GTA VI article | daily |
| Prediction markets | Polymarket public API | every 5 min |
| Take-Two stock | TradingView widget, in your browser | live |
What we don't track
Real-time sales, concurrent players on PS5 or Xbox, and download counts are not public anywhere, so they are not on this site. Official sales numbers appear on /numbers when Take-Two or Sony publish them, with a link to the source.
Creators, brands, press
Streams and clips play in the official Twitch, Kick and YouTube players, so every view counts for the creator. If you are a creator and want your stream or clip hidden, get in touch and it comes down within a minute.
Sponsorship: /sponsor. Contact: @pevidex on X.