The president of Mexico logged the most hours watched for his livestreams out of all Spanish-speaking streamers in August. But it doesn’t mean he is the most-viewed Hispanic streamer of the month.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, shared a post on X (ex-Twitter) showing his streaming figures for August from the analytics platform StreamsCharts. And he is on top of the Spanish-speaking streamers in terms of hours viewed for the month of August.
The president was the highest-ranking Spanish-speaking streamer in August in terms of hours watched (HW), with 4.56 million hours.
During the second quarter of 2023, AMLO already ranked 3rd in the most-watched Hispanic streamers with a total of 13.74 million hours. In the first quarter, the president was 6th with 13.20 million hours.
The president’s position is pretty unique as the streaming landscape for Spanish speakers is dominated by content creators outside of politics, such as Ibai, Auronplay and IlloJuan, who live stream primarily video games and other entertainment content but also have significant more airtime.
AMLO is also the highest-ranking YouTube-based channel on the list. But Streamscharts, which collects data from a dozen streaming platforms, would struggle to identify him as a pure YouTuber, “partly because the account is run by his presidential team and is not a personal channel.” And because it’s not his main activity.
AMLO has been broadcasting live events from his YouTube account since the start of his presidential mandate in 2018. The content of the streams is mainly conferences or speeches at political events given by the president himself or his daily briefings with the press.
The hours watched metric counts all the hours that the livestream was viewed on-air.
But if we know for how many hours AMLO’s live streams were watched, it doesn’t say how many people watched them. For example, if two people watched two hours of the stream, the hours watched would be four hours.
Moreover, hours watched only accounts for the total hours viewed during the live streams, meaning it only adds time when the streamer is on air. It does not count the hours of viewing videos of already streamed content, for instance, a YouTube video posted a month ago.
As a consequence, though the Mexican president may have had the most hours watched of any Spanish-speaking streamer according to StreamsCharts, other content creators may have outdone him in a number of other metrics such as total viewers, total views or hours watched of all the creator’s content.
So, despite what some Mexican news media may have written, the president of Mexico received the most hours viewed out of all Spanish-speaking streamers for his live streams, but he is not necessarily the most-viewed Hispanic streamer.
