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GTA streaming numbers you can cite

Live concurrent viewership for Grand Theft Auto V across all three tracked platforms, updated every minute and recorded since 29 Jul 2026. Quoting these figures is welcome — this page says how to do it accurately.

Watching GTA now
147,326

across 1,446 live channels

All-time peak
992,344

27 Aug 2026

Peak this week
685,506

21 Sept 2026

Platforms
3

Kick, Twitch and YouTube

These figures update live on this page. The full history is on thepeak tracker and thelive board.

How to cite

“[Number] viewers were watching Grand Theft Auto streams on Kick, Twitch and YouTube at [time] UTC on [date], according to luciastream, which tracks live GTA viewership on each of them.”

Please give the time in UTC — the total moves a great deal over the course of a day, so a figure without a time cannot be checked. Link to luciastream.com/livefor a current figure, or luciastream.com/peaksfor a record.

Quoting our figures with attribution and a link is welcome. The underlying dataset is licensedCC BY-NC 4.0.

What the numbers are, and are not

It is a sum of viewer counts, not a count of people.

The live total adds up the concurrent viewers each platform reports for every live GTA stream. Someone watching two streams is counted twice, and each platform decides for itself what counts as a viewer. Say “viewers” or “concurrent viewers”, not “people”.

Peaks are single samples.

A peak is the highest one-minute reading we recorded, never a smoothed or averaged figure. Quote it with its date.

Sampling is tiered.

The largest channels, which hold most of the audience, are read every minute; smaller channels every 5 or 15 minutes. Totals and peaks are dominated by the largest channels, so they are well measured. Details are on the methodology page.

Channel counts do not compare across platforms.

Each platform lets us discover live channels to a different depth — Kick's listing, for example, returns only its top 100. Totals hold up across platforms; anything divided by a channel count does not.

It covers Kick, Twitch and YouTube, and only Grand Theft Auto.

Streams are matched to the game's category on every sample. Other platforms are not tracked, so these are not totals for all of streaming.

Full detail, including sampling tiers and known gaps, is on themethodology page.

Grand Theft Auto VI launch, 19 Nov 2026

When the Grand Theft Auto VI category appears on each platform, the collectors start sampling it automatically, and live viewership for the launch will be recorded here minute by minute.

The benchmark launch-day figures will be measured against: the highestGrand Theft Auto V peak we have recorded, 992,344concurrent viewers on 27 Aug 2026. See thelaunch countdown for how the switch works.

Raw data

The same figures are published as public JSON, with no key or sign-up. Please keep polling to about once a minute; they do not change faster than that.