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.

In June 2024, content creator KaiCenat the highest number of average viewers among the most popular streamers across several platforms, with over 120,000 average viewers on twitch. YouTuber iShowSpeed ranked second, counting approximately 79,000 average viewers on the popular video platform when engaging in a live stream. Kick streamer n3on ranked third, with almost 57,000 average video 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. The most popular game on the service among streamers in April 2025 was ******** — the battle royale game attracted roughly ******* streamers in the preceding ** days.

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Youngmulti was the most popular Twitch streamer in the Polish language as of May 5, 2024, with nearly 14 thousand concurrent viewers. Twitch streamer xmerghani ranked second with 9.54 thousand average live viewers.

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In August 2021, Félix Lengyel aka xQcOw was the top streamer based on user engagement across all major live streaming platforms. The Canadian generated **** million hours of content watched across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook Gaming. This represents a ** percent growth in hours watched compared to the previous month. Despite an overall first place, other streamers have outperformed xQcOw in other metrics. For example, Ibai Llanos Garatea aka Ibai saw a peak viewership of ***** thousand viewers during one of his streams. Vietnamese YouTuber Do Mixi (Phung Thanh Do) aka MixiGaming was ranked first in terms of average viewers per stream.

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In July 2025, Caedrel was the top-ranked League of Legends streamer, having accumulated approximately **** million viewer hours on Twitch in the preceding 30 days. Meanwhile, NoWay4u_Sir was in second place with **** million League of Legend total content watch hours during the same period.

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Tumblurr was the most popular Italian-language Twitch channel as of April 2025, with nearly 2.98 million viewership hours in the past month. Twitch streamer TheRealMarzaa ranked second with over 1.47 million hours, followed by DarioMocciaTwitch, who had roughly 627 thousand viewership hours.

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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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In April 2025, streamer and political commentator HasanAbi was the most popular just chatting streamer worldwide on Twitch with a watch time total of seven million hours in the preceding 30 days. Zackrawrr ranked second with 6.65 million watch hours in total during the same period.