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.
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 β 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.
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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.
This is a dataset of users consuming streaming content on Twitch. It contains all streamers, and all users connected in their respective chats, every 10 minutes for 43 days.
Basic statistics Users: 100k Streamers: 162.6k Interactions: 3M Time steps: 6148
Metadata Start and stop times are provided as integers and represent periods of 10 minutes. Stream ID could be used to retrieve a single broadcast segment from a streamer.
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.
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 June 2025, the most popular streaming channel on Twitch in terms of hours watched was zackrawrr β the channel had a combined *****million hours watched in the preceding ** days.
Streaming platform Twitch is an online traffic powerhouse and has set some impressive viewing figures. As of April 2025, the highest number of peak viewers (PV) for any individual stream stood at 6.7 million. This record was set by Spanish streamer ibai during the fourth edition of his popular streamer boxing event, La Velada del AΓ±o IV, in July 2024.
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. As of April 2025, the most popular game on Twitch in terms of all-time peak viewers was *****************. The online multiplayer game peaked at **** million viewers in November 2022.
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 ******** β the battle royale game attracted roughly ******* streamers in the preceding ** days.
Gaming streams were by far the most popular type of content among Twitch audiences in the United States. According to a March 2024 survey, 79 percent of Twitch users in the United States said that they watched streams of gaming sessions. Music followed in second place.
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.
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.
The eSports market has boomed in recent years with more and more viewers tuning in to watch their favorite games being played by some of the best gamers in the world. Players can compete against each other, individually or in teams, in multiplayer video game tournaments across the world. According to a 2019 report, concurrent viewers of eSports on the online streaming platform Twitch are estimated to reach more than 3.2 million in 2023.
As of December 2024, Mythic Talent was the most watched team on Twitch, having accumulated 35.95 million hours of watch time in the preceding 30 days. Loaded was ranked second with 20.53 million hours of content watched during the observed period.
Twitch is a live video streaming service which broadcasts live video games and eSports events. The most popular game streamed on the platform in April 2025 was ********. A combined **** million hours of the battle royale game were streamed on Twitch in the ** days included in the measured period.
Live streaming video platform Twitch allows viewers to watch some of their favorite gamers live on the internet. A total of 5.71 billion hours were watched on the platform in the third quarter of 2022. This was an 1.7 percent decrease from 6.13 billion hours in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
During the second quarter of 2024, shooter games were the most popular gaming genre on live-streaming platform Twitch, generating over **** billion of hours watched during that period. This genre was followed by adventure and RPG, which accumulated **** billion and *** billion of hours watched, respectively. Indie games ranked tenth, with ****** million hours watched.
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. Unsurprisingly, the service experiences a surge in users at the weekends - Twitch had an average of 2.9 million viewers on Saturdays in the last six months.
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.
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.