SKWAD Pulse · Live viewership
SKWAD Pulse
Pulse watches live YouTube viewership for esports broadcasts. It is built for the operations teams who run the broadcast and the event organisers they work with.
What Pulse does today
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True Peak
True Peak is the highest sampled sum of concurrent viewer counts across the event's included official feeds and co-streams at the same time. It is calculated independently by Pulse from YouTube-reported counts. It is not a unique-viewer count and does not deduplicate people watching multiple streams. Re-streams are excluded. Samples may be delayed, missing or unavailable.
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Official feeds and co-streams, counted separately
The official broadcast and the co-streams each get their own totals, so it is clear what each one drew.
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Re-streams shown, never counted
Pulse detects unofficial re-streams of the broadcast and shows them with their viewers. They are never added to True Peak.
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Stream problems flagged to the crew
If a stream goes down while the event is live, Pulse opens an issue for the crew. Only a person closes it.
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Post-event reports
When the broadcast ends, Pulse locks the record and produces the report, with a share link that works on a phone and a PDF.
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Read-only access for organisers
Organisers sign in with their own account and see the numbers and reports. They cannot change anything.
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Viewership by broadcast language
Pulse groups counted feeds by their configured broadcast language and shows each language's viewership in the live room and report.
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Viewership by match
When SKWAD Grid is connected and supplies match times, Pulse places those match windows against the viewership curve and reports the measured audience during them.
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Broadcast readiness checks
Pulse runs readiness checks before a broadcast day and flags missing or unready inputs for the crew to review.
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Report email delivery
Pulse can email day and whole-event reports to organiser contacts. The default workflow waits for an admin to approve each email. Unattended automatic sending is off by default, must be enabled for the deployment and chosen by an admin for the event, and sends only after the report freezes and its delivery checks pass.
Source: YouTube API Services. Event totals, True Peak, average concurrent audience and viewer-hours are independently calculated by SKWAD Pulse; they are not metrics supplied or endorsed by YouTube. Collection times and gaps are shown with the figures.
Coming soon
These are planned and are not available in Pulse today.
- PlannedChat trends. Aggregate trends from public live chat. Chat collection is currently disabled, so chat trends are not available in the current release.
- PlannedHuman-controlled chat moderation. Moderation is not built. It will require permission for the authorised channel, Google OAuth verification where applicable, and sufficient approved API quota.
How Pulse uses YouTube data
Pulse uses YouTube API Services. It reads public data through the YouTube Data API v3, from our servers, with an API key:
- public live-stream statistics: concurrent viewers, stream status, and scheduled and actual start and end times;
- public video and channel metadata, such as titles and channel names, to find the event's official streams and co-streams by keyword;
- public live-stream search results, to find unofficial re-streams.
Pulse retrieves YouTube statistics and metadata through documented YouTube API Services and displays video through YouTube's embedded player. It does not extract watch-page text or use third-party scraping services to obtain YouTube data.
Pulse does not post to YouTube and does not access anyone's YouTube account. It does not sell YouTube data or share it beyond the reports organisers receive.
By using Pulse you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. YouTube data is also subject to the Google Privacy Policy. Our Privacy policy explains what Pulse stores, for how long, and how to ask us to delete it.
YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Pulse is not endorsed by or affiliated with YouTube or Google.
Who it's for
Pulse is an invite-only internal tool for SKWAD broadcast crews and the event organisers they work with. There is no public sign-up: an admin sends each person a personal invite, and they sign in with a password and an authenticator app.
To ask about access, email us:
hello@skwad.aiEmail us
SKWAD Pulse is operated by SKWAD GG LLP, India. Read the Privacy policy and the Terms of service.