We'll tailor a Twitch dataset to meet your unique needs, encompassing streamer profiles, viewer engagement metrics, streaming times, demographic data of viewers, follower counts, chat statistics, and other pertinent metrics.

Leverage our Twitch datasets for diverse applications to bolster strategic planning and market analysis. Scrutinizing these datasets enables organizations to grasp viewer preferences and streaming trends, facilitating nuanced content development and engagement initiatives. Customize your access to the entire dataset or specific subsets as per your business requisites.

Popular use cases involve optimizing content strategy based on streamer performance and viewer engagement, enhancing marketing strategies through targeted audience segmentation, and identifying and forecasting trends in the streaming community to stay ahead in the digital entertainment landscape.

In 2024, Twitch audiences watched nearly ** billion hours of video content on the streaming platform, down from an all-time high of **** billion hours of watch time in 2021.

Introduction

Twitch Statistics: Twitch is referred to as the premier platform for video game streaming, attracting millions of users daily who engage in conversation, interaction, and entertainment. By the year 2026, Twitch accounted for over 91% of all streaming content and commanded 76% of the market share in total viewing hours. At any given time, approximately 2.73 million viewers are present on the platform. Continue reading to uncover more interesting Twitch statistics.

Discover information regarding its partners, active streaming channels, popular categories, historical streaming data, and developing trends. For viewers, statistics concerning popular games or streamers assist them in finding content that aligns with their interests. Additionally, Twitch offers tools for performance analysis, while third-party websites provide even more complete data. Whether you are a content creator or simply nosy, understanding Twitch statistics can keep you updated on trends and the platform's expansion.

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.

In March 2025, video streaming platform Twitch had approximately *** million active streamers, down from a peak of **** million in January 2021. The platform experienced a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many new users used the platform to connect with friends or try their hand at livestreaming. However, this trend normalized again towards the end of the year, and the streaming space has also grown more competitive as platforms apart from Twitch have evolved to attract streamers and viewers. Popular content categories on Twitch In 2024, most of the leading content categories on Twitch were all gaming-related – except for the top spot: Just Chatting. The general conversation category accumulated *** billion hours of viewing time in the measured period. In March 2025, global Twitch audiences spent around *** million hours watching Just Chatting content on Twitch, with the average viewer count of such content reaching *** thousand. HasanAbi was the most popular Just Chatting streamer on Twitch in the most recently measured month. Game streamers Twitch is very popular with gamers and gaming audiences, and the ranking of the most popular Twitch streamers reflects this. Ninja (real name: Richard Tyler Blevins), the top-ranked streamer on Twitch, had **** million followers in April 2025. Ninja saw a meteoric rise to fame when he was one of the first top-ranked players to stream the then-newly released Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of 2017. Second-ranked ibai (real name: Ibai Llanos Garatea) was ranked second with ***** million followers on Twitch. With more than **** million followers, Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, was the only woman among the most-followed Twitch streamers worldwide. Overall, women only accounted for **** percent of the top-ranked Twitch channels.

About this Dataset

Twitch stream data collected from ~2500 popular Twitch streamers over 4 months (9/24/2020 to 2/05/2021). Real time data for live streamers updated approx. every 5 minutes. Dataset includes current timestamp, streamer name, stream title, game_id, stream start time, and viewership count. Contains 7,936,251 live stream data instances.

Category

Machine Learning

Keywords

social network,twitch,social media,Machine Learning,viewership

Row Count

7936132

Price

$40.00

In May 2025, the United States accounted for over 23 percent of Twitch's desktop traffic worldwide. Germany accounted for a further 8.69 percent of the streaming platform's desktop traffic. Twitch has gained massively in popularity during coronavirus-related lockdowns in 2020.

Context

Gaming is a very big industry now. Every year there are millions of Dollars invested in Esports and many new companies want to invest in the Esports scene now. One of bigegest ever deals was when Mixer opened up and brought Ninja and Shroud to their platform from twitch. But Twitch has been a home to streamers since day 1 and now that Mixer has been shut down, streamers are returning to the platform again.Millions, if not billions, watch twitch streams everyday and i myself like to watch twitch streams. So i put together Top 1000 Streamers from past one year who were streaming on twitch.

Content

This data consists of different things like number of viewers, number of active viewers, followers gained and many other relevant columns regarding a particular streamer. It has 11 different columns with all the necessary information that is needed.

Collection of chat log of 2,162 Twitch streaming videos by 52 streamers. Time period of target streaming video is from 2018-04-24 to 2018-06-24. Description of columns follows below: body: Actual text for user chat channel_id: Channel identifier (integer) commenter_id: User identifier (integer) commenter_type: User type (character) created_at: Time of when chat was entered (ISO 8601 date and time) fragments: Chat text including parsing information of Twitch emote (JSON list) offset: Time offset between start time of video stream and the time of when chat was entered (float) updated_at: Time of when chat was edited (ISO 8601 date and time) video_id: Video identifier (integer) File name indicates name of Twitch stream channel. This dataset is saved as python3 pandas.DataFrame with python pickle format. import pandas as pd pd.read_pickle('ninja.pkl')

As of May 2025, more than ************ online visitors to streaming platform Twitch.tv were male. Women only accounted for *****percent of global desktop visitors to Twitch.tv. Twitch is a popular platform for video gaming live streams.

Context

Twitch is one of the most popular option for gamers and streamers. Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

Content

Their is a lot of data generated by twitch every day and data if handled effectively can be used for building many new models and products benificial for companies.

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Inspiration

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As of May 2025, users between the ages of ************** accounted for the biggest share of Twitch.tv users worldwide. During the measured period, users in this age group amounted to over ** percent of Twitch online audiences. Users aged between *************** were the second largest demographic accessing with Twitch.

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 2025, there were around **** million Twitch users in the United States and this figure is estimated to rise to **** million by 2028.

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. In 2025 so far, the most popular video game based on total views was competitive MOBA game League of Legends with over 1.67 billion views.

This dataset contains application and network measurements of 6,982 individual Twitch.tv streaming sessions of 222 different streamers summing up to more than 1,000h live streaming. The data are aggregated to uplink requests.

Complete dataset used in the research study on The Impact of Streaming Platforms on Game Popularity: A Case Study of Twitch by Dr. Brandon Barnes

Twitch is an online video streaming service which allows eSports and gaming fans to watch their favorite gamers play various online video games. In July 2025, the most popular game on Twitch was competitive MOBA game League of Legends with 167,000 average concurrent weekly viewers.

This is a dataset of users consuming streaming content on Twitch. We retrieved all streamers, and all users connected in their respective chats, every 10 minutes during 43 days.

In 2024, the duration of the live streams launched on Twitch experienced a small increase compared to the previous year. The average Twitch streaming session went from ****** seconds on average in 2023, to ****** seconds - or approximately three hours - in 2024.

From January to November 2024, the most popular gaming category on Twitch was Grand Theft Auto 5 with approximately *** billion hours of content watched worldwide. Just Chatting was ranked first — the general conversation category accumulated more than *** billion hours of global watch time worldwide.