When a result, a budget or a final is on air, the newsroom question is the same: how is everyone covering this, and who is winning the room? The live compare screen answers it, refreshed every fifteen seconds.
Choosing channels
Pick up to thirty, or type a few words describing the event. StatAxis takes every channel live right now whose stream title contains one of them. The rest are listed as not live.
The columns
- Live now. This minute’s viewers.
- 5 min. Change against five minutes ago.
- Trend. The last half hour, as a line.
- Peak and average. Over 30 minutes to 3 hours; the average counts only live minutes.
- Live for. How long the stream has been on.
- STX. The channel’s index and confidence: general strength, not tonight.
- Tone. Positive, negative or mixed, from the words in the title.
About tone
Tone is indicative. It reads how a channel frames the event from its title, not how its audience feels; live chat is not read. Each row shows how many words were recognised, so a thin reading is not mistaken for a strong one.
A picture to post
One click turns the top ten into a branded card: channel, audience now, STX.
The rule
Compare channels on audience that is moving and framing that is visible, not on one number at the loudest minute.