First founded in 2011, the live streaming video platform, Twitch, is one of the most popular ways in which viewers watch their favorite gamers play a variety of online video games. Streamer ibai (real name: Ibai Llanos) currently holds the record with the highest number of peak concurrent viewers in 2025 with 710,473.

As of February 2024, the Korean Twitch channel with the highest average viewership was Aine with around 11,918 average concurrent viewers. Twitch shut down its service in South Korea on February 27th in 2024 due to high operating costs caused by South Korea's network rules that increased costs for all video streaming platforms. Streaming via streaming platforms is common even among professional e-sports gamers and has become a popular form of irregular income for players.

Who watches online streams?

Twitch, well-known for its video game streams, had a large potential audience base in South Korea, where almost three out of four people play video games themselves. According to a survey in 2021, South Korean gamers spent up to three hours watching others players game via streams. While gamers had a higher interest in watching other people's gaming streams than, there are also streams of other categories to appeal to the sizeable Twitch community.

Popular content to stream

Aside from live streams of content creators on platforms such as Twitch or AfreecaTV, movie and TV streaming services were the most paid-for streaming content by South Koreans monthly. Accordingly, internet video viewership was high. While most people did not prefer any genre of online video in particular, domestic video content was widespread across all platforms.

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Video game streaming platforms such as Twitch have been getting traction in France over the past few years, emphasizing the ever-evolving video game consumption habits of French gamers. Kamet0 was the most-watched French-language Twitch channel, with 4.02 million hours watched in the past 30 days. Nasdas_off and the League of Legends streamer otplol_ followed with 3.62 and 3.33 million hours watched in the past 30 days, respectively. However, Squeezie was the most-followed French-language channel with more than 5.29 million followers, followed by Gotaga and Locklear. Twitch – ahead of the game Twitch is a live video streaming service well known to French gamers. Although originally general, the platform has specialized in the live broadcasting of video games and esports competitions. Indeed, watching video games online is a hobby more and more widespread among French gamers, who see it as a way to exchange and create a community around a common passion. eSports in France The rise of esports has been facilitated by the online broadcasting of numerous international and regional competitions. Professional players and amateurs alike compete against each other in front of large numbers of spectators, sometimes winning very high prizes. This new electronic sport, although it sometimes struggles to find its legitimacy among the general public, has been a leading figure in the video game industry, which organizes tournaments and sponsorships for the enjoyment of many players.

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Viewers of channels streaming music content on Twitch increased drastically during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In February 2021, music channels on Twitch had around ** thousand viewers on average - almost five times as many as in the same month a year earlier. However, while the number is still higher than before the pandemic, it has fallen below *** thousand again by fall 2024.

Twitch is an online video streaming service which allows eSports and gaming fans to watch their favorite gamers play various online video games. In January 2025, the most popular game on Twitch was Escape from Tarkov with 132 thousand average concurrent weekly viewers.

In May 2025, less than two percent of Twitch's global desktop traffic came from social media platforms. At 81 percent, direct visits accounted for the largest share of traffic. The majority of Twitch.tv's desktop visitors are from the United States.

Over the period under consideration, WeAreTheVR was the leading Hungarian streaming channel on Twitch, with an average number of over 2,300 concurrent viewers on their live streams. 2okos ranked second with an average number of 1,500 viewers.

Twitch is an online video streaming service which allows eSports and gaming fans to watch their favorite gamers play a variety of online video games. In April 2025, the most popular game was battle royale title Fortnite. The game was streamed on 5,261 channels on average in the preceding 30 days. Second-ranked Valorant netted an average of 2,972 channels.

Call of Duty: Warzone, which is part of the Call of Duty series published by Activision, received a major update on November 14, 2024, to coincide with the release of the franchise's newest installment, Call of Duty Black Ops 6. The Twitch broadcast channel that generated the highest peak viewership of COD: Warzone during the release of the update was scump, reaching 22,000 peak concurrent viewers in a two-day period. shroud and Recrent followed, with peak viewerships of 20,000 and 18,000 concurrent viewers, respectively.

As of February 2025, YouTube accounted for over 55 percent of social media referral traffic to video streaming platform Twitch.tv. Twitch's second-largest social media traffic driver was X, which generated more than 18 percent of social media traffic to Twitch.

This statistic illustrates the distribution of Twitch users in the United States. As of December 2024, * percent of 18 - 19 year old consumers do so in the U.S. This is according to exclusive results from the Consumer Insights Global survey which shows that ** percent of 20 - 29 year old customers also fall into this category.Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than ********* interviews.

StarLadder1 was the Russian-speaking Twitch streamer with the highest number of channel views as of November 1, 2024, measured at *** million. The streamer Dota2RuHub ranked second with *** million total channel views.

Between May 26 and June 1, 2025, eazykee was the most popular Hungarian channel on Twitch, with over 96,000 hours watched. ZsombeyHD was the second most watched streaming channel during the same period.

Twitch streaming in Poland has grown significantly, with top creators amassing millions of channel views. Izakooo leads the pack with an impressive 190 million views, nearly doubling the viewership of the second-place streamer, nervarien, who garnered 85.4 million views. This stark difference highlights the competitive nature of the Polish streaming landscape and the potential for standout performers to capture a large audience share. The power of game-specific content Game-specific content is a driving force behind viewer engagement in Poland. League of Legends streamers, in particular, have found success, with h2p_gucio averaging over 6,000 viewers in July 2024. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also maintains a strong following, as evidenced by izakooo's peak viewership of nearly 22,000 in January 2024. These numbers suggest that Polish audiences have a strong preference for competitive gaming content. Diverse streaming landscape While gaming dominates the Polish Twitch scene, there's a growing interest in non-gaming content as well. The "Just Chatting" category has gained traction, with approximately 34,000 hours streamed over a 30-day period. This trend indicates a diversification of content on the platform. Women were becoming increasingly popular among streamers. One of the most popular female streamers in Poland was kasix, whose streams in July 2024 were viewed for more than 139 hours.

In April 2025, SondergaardLol was the most popular Danish-language Twitch channel, with over one thousand concurrent viewers on average. Twitch streamer PlinkoPeter ranked second with around 690 viewers on average, followed by Kian26xx who averaged 644 concurrent viewers.

As of November 2024, AmazonMusic was the most watched channel that streamed music on Twitch with a total of 3.24 million hours of watch time in the last year. Viewers of channels' streaming music content on Twitch increased drastically during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In 2023, almost all Twitch accounts decreased the number of times they started live screaming on the platform. Twitch accounts between 2,000 and 10,000 subscribers halved the weekly times they started a live streaming session on the platform. Big accounts, which had between 10,000 and 50,000 subscribers, streamed eight times per week, a small increase compared to the 8.86 times on average in 2022.

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