How we count
HIVEDROID ranks the streamers and teams that broadcast in Italian on Twitch and Kick. Here are the rules we use to calculate the numbers.
The source
We read Twitch and Kick through their public APIs; the exception is Kick clips, explained below. We count streams set to Italian: a stream set to another language is not counted, even if the channel is Italian.
How often we read
Since 7 November 2026 we read Twitch every 2 minutes. The history before that date comes from the old site, which read every 6 minutes, and is available from 5 August 2026. Periods that span the change mix the two rates.
Kick
The Kick ranking reads Kick's official API every 2 minutes and counts streams in Italian. Kick history starts on 25 June 2026. The calculation rules are the same as Twitch's.
Kick does not publish follower counts and has no teams, so its pages do not show them. The most watched clips of a Kick channel are not in the official API: we request them from the Kick website, at most once a day and only when someone opens that channel's page.
YouTube
YouTube works differently: there is no ranking. We follow a list of Italian channels chosen by us, not all of YouTube, and every 2 minutes we read, through the YouTube API Services, which of them are live. The page shows only who is live now, most watched first. We keep the readings for 30 days at most. We will add rankings only when YouTube approves it.
What a reading counts
A reading counts only if the stream has at least 10 viewers. Each reading adds the minutes live and the viewer-minutes, that is, the viewers present multiplied by the minutes the reading represents.
- Average viewers: viewer-minutes divided by minutes live.
- Hours watched: viewer-minutes, expressed in hours.
- Hours live: minutes live, expressed in hours.
- Peak: the highest number of viewers seen in a single reading of the period.
- Category: the one where the streamer spent the most minutes live in the period.
Who is ranked
The top 500 streamers with at least 10 hours live in the chosen period (7, 30 or 90 days) are ranked. Bots and channels that rebroadcast constantly are left out.
The hours-watched total at the top of the ranking counts all Italian-language streams on the platform, including those of streamers outside the top 500.
The period follows Italian time. A stream that starts before midnight counts in full on the day it began.
Teams
Teams are the official Twitch teams. A team appears if at least 3 of its members streamed in Italian in the period. The ranking shows the top 50, ordered by the combined hours watched of all members. The total at the top of the teams page counts each streamer once, even if they belong to more than one team.
Content type
Twitch does not divide categories by type, so the split on team pages is ours. Just Chatting, IRL, music, podcasts, travel, food, art, ASMR and other categories without a game count as IRL. The Sports and Kings League categories count as Sport. Everything else is Gaming.
Women and men
Twitch does not say the gender of the people who stream: the label is ours, inferred from the channel's name and description and checked by a person. Inside the filter, positions are recalculated. Couples, editorial teams and brands have no label and appear only under “All”. To correct a label, write to support@hivedroid.com.
Followers
We read Twitch followers once a day, at night, together with the profile and image. The number you see can be a few hours behind.