How to see your Whatnot viewer count, and grow it

Whatnot shows your viewer count only while you're live, then it's gone. There's no record of what you peaked at last Tuesday or whether your average is climbing. If you're trying to grow, that missing history is exactly the thing you need.

What Whatnot shows you (and what it doesn't)

In-show, you see a live viewer number tick up and down. After the show, you get a sales recap. What you don't get: peak viewers per show over time, average viewers, viewer-minutes, or any way to compare one show to the last. To track those, you need something recording the public data around the clock.

Peak vs. average vs. reach

• Peak viewers. The most people in your room at once. Good for a headline, easy to spike with a giveaway, not the whole story.
• Average viewers. How full your room stayed across the show. The honest read on your draw, and the number to watch trend upward.
• Viewer-minutes (reach). Viewers times minutes watched. The best single measure of the attention a show actually earned.

How to track it over time

PULSE records the public Whatnot live market about once an hour, around the clock, so your peak and average viewers are kept as history you can actually look back on. Enter your @handle in PULSE's tools to see the trend across your shows.

How to grow the number

The fastest lever is timing. Go live when your category peaks (see best time to go live). After that it's consistency and lane choice, covered in how to grow on Whatnot.

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