How scores work

Scores are how Telureo counts live audience. They rank tutors and agencies, and validators use them to set weights.

A lecture’s score

A lecture’s score is its live watch-minutes: the minutes people spent watching it while it was live, as YouTube Analytics reports them (estimatedMinutesWatched for live viewing). Replays never count. There’s no cap and no scaling, so a lecture watched live for 6,000 minutes scores 6,000.

When	What happens
End of the lecture	The score is waiting for YouTube.
48 hours after the end	YouTube’s first report. The score appears.
Every 30 minutes after that	The score updates with YouTube’s latest number.
120 hours (5 days) after the end	Collection stops, and the score is final.

We keep each lecture’s final score, and delete the detailed YouTube data after 120 hours.

Tutors and agencies

• A tutor’s score for a day, a week, or a month is the sum of the scores of their lectures that ended in it.
• An agency’s score is the sum of the scores of the lectures booked under it.
• Days run from midnight to midnight UTC. Weeks run from Monday to Sunday. Months are calendar months.
• The Rankings page shows the top tutors and agencies for any day, week, or month, and for all time.

Rewards

Validators reward agencies from the same numbers, in a 72-hour scoring window:

• A lecture counts toward rewards from 48 hours to 120 hours after it ends, with its latest fresh score.
• Each agency’s weight is its score divided by the total of all agencies’ scores.

Example. Agency A’s tutors give 2 lectures, with 6,000 and 3,000 live watch-minutes. Agency B’s tutor gives a lecture with 4,500. A scores 9,000 and B scores 4,500, so A’s target weight is 2/3 and B’s is 1/3. If A’s first lecture is later updated to 5,000, A scores 8,000. Updates replace earlier numbers. They never add up.

What scores mean

Scores measure live audience, not teaching quality. They don’t account for how hard a subject is, the size of its audience, or the language. Agencies can use them together with their own judgment about preparation, reliability, and growth.