USE CASE:
Gaming brands on YouTube: audience size without the guesswork
What follows is the honest set of ways to get audience size on gaming brands on YouTube, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so YouTube Channel Stats Extractor is something you run yourself against your own list of gaming brands on YouTube.
Where this starts
On YouTube, gaming one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. YouTube is a search engine that pays, so a subscriber count and a view count measure different things, and audience size for gaming brands on YouTube inherits that. What catches people out on gaming brands on YouTube, audience size included: a studio with two million followers can have eleven employees. YouTube Channel Stats Extractor carries 1 ready made setup for audience size on gaming brands on YouTube.
Why it matters
If you qualify on audience, gaming brands on YouTube is where that qualification is most likely to be quietly wrong.
Doing it end to end
- Start with one of gaming brands on YouTube you already know, so a wrong audience size answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run YouTube Channel Stats Extractor across your list of gaming brands on YouTube, which carries 1 ready made setup for audience size.
- Read ten rows of audience size on gaming brands on YouTube by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- Steam and the app stores, for gaming brands on YouTube. Free, and review counts are a better proxy for scale than anything firmographic.
- The channel's recent uploads, for gaming brands on YouTube. Free, and the gap between subscribers and recent views is the honest number.
- The platform APIs. Official, accurate and gated. Most now require an app review to read a public follower count, which is weeks of work for one number.
- Social listening suites. Brandwatch, Sprout and the rest do this among many other things. Priced for a brand team, not for a qualification step in a sales list.
- SimilarWeb or a traffic estimator. A different proxy for the same question. Better for whether anyone visits, worse for whether anyone follows.
- Open the profiles. Find the accounts, read the numbers, write them down. Two minutes per brand per network, and completely accurate on the day you do it.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- YouTube Channel Stats Extractor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.