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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

As of April 2025, **************************************** was the most followed live streamer on Twitch with **** million followers. ***** 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 and beginning of 2018. Spanish streamer ************************************* was ranked second with ***** million followers on Twitch. The top games on Twitch Despite being released way back in 2013, GTA V is still among the most popular games on Twitch. The action adventure classic accounted for *** percent of total hours watched on the platform in February 2025. In contrast, the most popular game on Twitch in terms of average number of channels was Fortnite - the battle royale title had ***** channels streaming the game in April 2025. Other top-ranked games include Valorant, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Twitch - how it all began Founded in 2011, Twitch was initially launched as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv. The site primarily focuses on video gaming, including play through of video games, broadcasts of e-sports competitions, and more recently, creative content. Twitch Creative, the outlet for creative content, was launched on October 28, 2015. The launch included a marathon of Bob Ross ' "The Joy of Painting". Some of the most popular channels on Twitch are owned by YouTube gaming personalities, who are taking advantage of the website’s live-streaming capabilities to interact more with their audiences. Users are able to participate in a live chat during the video broadcast, with broadcasters frequently reacting to and replying to comments and questions from the chat in real time. In August 2014, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for *** million U.S. dollars. It was the company’s fifth most expensive acquisition of all time.

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')

Traffic analytics, rankings, and competitive metrics for twitch.tv as of June 2025

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.

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.

What?

Very brief Twitch Chat data from Dr.K's stream over at Healthy Gamer GG.

How?

Achieved usingRchamp through R and Websockets.

Why?

Twitch chat connections, live or vod/clip, have been neglected in the R space. So I want to bring R up to speed with Pythons nifty Twitch packages so folks who use R can interact with Twitch too!

What Next?

I will produce a much larger XQC file once the sub-a-thon happens. My goal for this data is to live-viz onto a shiny app for streamers/clients.

As of May 2025, YouTube accounted for over ** 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 ** percent of social media traffic to Twitch.

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.

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.

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. The number of concurrent live channels on the platform has been growing significantly over the past years, reaching ******* worldwide in 2021 before declining for the first time to ****** thousand in 2022 before increasing again to ****** in early 2025.

twitch.tv is ranked #33 in US with 1.1B Traffic. Categories: Computer and Video Games, Online Services. Learn more about website traffic, market share, and more!

A subset of the chat logs dump from Twitch used in this work is provided, to help replicate the central findings of this work (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1182793). Data are aggregated and include the number of messages posted in each channel and the number of users posting them, sampled at intervals of 5 minutes. To protect the identity of the users in this data collection, message contents and user names are not included in this dataset. Stream names have been replaced with numeric IDs.
No additional filtering or data cleaning operation has been applied to this data. Replication code is available on Github (https://github.com/glciampaglia/twitch-overload-replication).

We are publishing a dataset we created for the HTTPS traffic classification.

Since the data were captured mainly in the real backbone network, we omitted IP addresses and ports. The datasets consist of calculated from bidirectional flows exported with flow probe Ipifixprobe. This exporter can export a sequence of packet lengths and times and a sequence of packet bursts and time. For more information, please visit ipfixprobe repository (Ipifixprobe).

During our research, we divided HTTPS into five categories: L -- Live Video Streaming, P -- Video Player, M -- Music Player, U -- File Upload, D -- File Download, W -- Website, and other traffic.

We have chosen the service representatives known for particular traffic types based on the Alexa Top 1M list and Moz's list of the most popular 500 websites for each category. We also used several popular websites that primarily focus on the audience in our country. The identified traffic classes and their representatives are provided below:

Live Video Stream Twitch, Czech TV, YouTube Live

Video Player DailyMotion, Stream.cz, Vimeo, YouTube

Music Player AppleMusic, Spotify, SoundCloud

File Upload/Download FileSender, OwnCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive

Website and Other Traffic Websites from Alexa Top 1M list

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.