StreamRated

Reviews of streamers, written by the people who watch them.

So you can find out what watching someone is actually like before you spend an evening on it.

How it works

  1. 01

    We watch the numbers

    Names, avatars, categories and viewer counts come from the official Twitch, Kick and YouTube APIs. Snapshots through the day while a channel is live. Never scraped.

  2. 02

    Viewers write the reviews

    One account, one review per channel, about what watching is like: ads, chat, schedule, production, how the streamer treats the room.

  3. 03

    A person reads every one

    Nothing is published automatically. Every review is checked against the guidelines first, usually within a day.

How a score is worked out

A score is not a plain average. Every channel starts from the middle, and recent reviews count for more.

Starts from the middle
Every score includes 7 imaginary reviews at 3.5 stars. Real reviews outweigh them as they arrive.
Recent counts more
A review’s weight halves every 180 days. Fix your ad load and you climb; coast on 2023 and you drift.
Under 3 reviews: early
The score shows, labelled early, and the channel stays out of category rankings until there is enough to go on.
Shoutout nights are capped
In rankings, reviews written during one live stream count for at most 20 together. The profile score is not capped: that is the honest number.

Worked example

3.7

1 review averaging 5.0

One five-star review does not make a five-star channel.

4.1

10 reviews averaging 4.6

Getting close to the real average.

4.5

100 reviews averaging 4.6

The prior barely matters now.

What we check about a reviewer

An account, always
One person per channel is the rule that keeps this honest. A review with no account behind it is untraceable, even to us.
Anonymous is a choice
Any review can be posted anonymously, per review or by default. Moderators can see who wrote it. Readers and the streamer cannot.
Following: checked once
Where we can, we record whether the reviewer followed the channel when they wrote, and since when. Never re-checked: people who fall out with a streamer unfollow, and their reviews are the ones you need.
Live-stream reviews are labelled
Reviews written while the channel was live say so, with how many were watching. They tend to be warmer. You can hide them on any profile.

When a lot of reviews arrive at once

A streamer asks on air, or a clip goes round. Either way the profile gets a burst, and the same person still reads every review. While that is happening the channel page says so, and the count stops moving until the queue is clear.

What decides whether a burst counts is what the reviews are about, not how many there are.

On topic: it counts
On topic: the burst is about watching the channel, a shoutout, a schedule change, an ad-load complaint, a sponsor read. These count. They are read, labelled if written during a live stream, and capped in rankings. The rules are here.
Off topic: it goes
Off topic: the burst is about something that happened away from the stream, a clip, a feud, an accusation. These are removed, whichever way they rate.
Nothing is deleted quietly
Reviews are never removed to protect a score, and a burst never changes one on its own. A held review is still yours: you can see and edit it on the channel page.

What money cannot buy

  • Claim your profile
  • Reply in public under any review
  • Put the badge or overlay on your stream
  • A better score
  • A review removed
  • A higher place in a category

Unlawful content has a complaints process a person answers within seven days. Everything else is a reply.

StreamRated is not affiliated with Twitch, Kick or YouTube. Platform names identify the services reviewed. Streamers, see for streamers.