Methodology

Where do the numbers come from?

Famadex only uses public information, the kind anyone can see without an account:

• the public pages of accounts on each network, read without ever signing in to an account;
• the official interfaces of YouTube and Twitch;
• Wikidata (the free database linked to Wikipedia), for public dates of birth and official links;
• the links published in bios and on the web, to discover new accounts.

We never read private messages or subscriber-only content.

Who appears?

An account is recorded from 1,000 followers. It appears in the rankings from 10,000 followers. Can't find someone? Famadex grows every day, and you can suggest accounts.

How often?

The more followers an account has, the more often it is checked:

• every day for the biggest accounts (from 1 million followers);
• regularly for the others, and at least once a year for the smallest.

The date of the last check is shown on each profile. The site is published every day with the latest numbers.

How are accounts grouped into profiles?

The accounts of the same person or organization are grouped automatically, based on the links they publish to each other, their bios and Wikidata. When the link is certain, the account counts toward the profile's total. When there is a doubt, it is shown but not added, and it gets checked.

How is the total calculated?

For each network, we take the profile's biggest account, then add up the networks. Secondary accounts (a second channel, an account in another language…) are shown on the profile but not added: this way we avoid counting the same followers several times.

This total measures a combined audience, not a number of unique people: someone who follows the same star on Instagram and on TikTok is counted twice.

Category, type, country, city

The category (beauty, football, video games…), the type (creator, personality, brand, media…), the country, the city and the language are determined by an automatic analysis of the account's public information. It can be wrong: the “Fix” button on each profile lets you tell us.

Rankings

• Accounts are ranked by number of followers.
• The change is measured against the previous check.
• The biggest gains are calculated in followers gained, and the rising stars in percentage.
• On YouTube, the subscriber count is rounded by YouTube itself (for example 1.23M).

What we don't do

• We don't sell any spot in the rankings.
• We don't change a number on request: only public data counts.
• We don't publish private information. If some information about you bothers you, request its removal.

Last updated: November 1, 2026