Felix "xQc" Lengyel is one of the most-followed streamers on Twitch. The Canadian gamer reported 12 million followers in October 2024. Felix Lengyel rose to fame by playing Overwatch competitively, and until May 2022, his handle was "xQcOW," with the OW being a reference to Overwatch. However, the rename of his handle suggests a shift to a more generalist streaming approach, as many of Lengyel's streams are under the Just Chatting category.

As of February 2025, EzFlashKIDZ was the fastest-growing Indonesian-language Twitch channel, gaining over 1,151 followers in the past month. HELLOFRUITS ranked second with about 214 new followers.

In March 2025, video streaming platform Twitch had approximately 7.2 million active streamers, down from a peak of 9.89 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 2.8 billion hours of viewing time in the measured period. In March 2025, global Twitch audiences spent around 275 million hours watching Just Chatting content on Twitch, with the average viewer count of such content reaching 347 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 19.2 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 17.29 million followers on Twitch. With more than 9.37 million followers, Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, was the only woman among the most-followed Twitch streamers worldwide. Overall, women only accounted for nine percent of the top-ranked Twitch channels.

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 most followed game on Twitch is Fortnite, with more than 82 million followers across the platform as of June 2023.

As of April 2025, ninja (real name: Richard Tyler Blevins) was the most followed live streamer on Twitch with 19.2 million followers. 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 and beginning of 2018. Spanish streamer ibai (real name: Ibai Llanos Garatea) was ranked second with 17.29 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 5.1 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 5,263 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 970 million U.S. dollars. It was the company’s fifth most expensive acquisition of all time.

At the end of July 2020, Juventus FC launched its official Twitch account. As of October 1, the Serie A club from Turin recorded 828 followers. As of October 28, 202, the number of followers rose to 918.

As of April 2025, Emzia was the most popular Norwegian-language Twitch channel, with over 96 thousand followers. proxyfox ranked second with nearly 74 thousand followers, followed by detoo with 68.6 thousand followers.

The most followed Hungarian online streamer on Twitch was WeAreTheVR as of December 2024, counting over 633,000 followers. Fyrexxx took second place with more than 383,000 followers.

In 2024, the duration of the live streams launched on Twitch experienced an overall increase compared to the previous year. Streamers that had an audience between 10,001 and 50,000 users made their Twitch sessions 15 percent longer than in 2023. In comparison, tiny accounts increased the length of their streaming sessions by almost 20 percent, generating streams of 9,766 seconds in 2023. Accounts with over 50,000 followers saw the length of their stream decrease, from 15,500 seconds in 2023, to 13,500 seconds - or 3.75 hours - in 2024.

As of April 2025, YaraskyGaming was the most-followed Dutch-language Twitch streamer, with approximately 304 thousand followers. Second-ranked GameMeneer had around 270 thousand followers on the live steaming platform Twitch.

Jaxstyle was the most popular Danish-language Twitch channel as of April 2025, with approximately 290 thousand followers. SondergaardLol ranked second with over 177 thousand followers, followed by RefsgaardDK, who had roughly 156 thousand followers on Twitch.

In Turkey, the most followed online streamer on Twitch was Elraenn, with nearly 4.5 million followers in 2023. wtcN and KendineMuzisyen came next in the ranking, whose followers amounted to approximately 2.9 and 2.5 million, respectively.

Twitch streamer taimoutv ranked first as the Finnish-language channel with the highest number of followers as of September 2024. The channel had over 170,300 followers for the evaluated period. They were followed by eeddspeaks, with roughly 138,700 followers. Lakkoilija ranked third with nearly 123,500 followers. In contrast, the most viewed Twitch streamer on a weekly basis in September 2024, was Roosteeni, with around 178,700 viewership hours over the past 30 days.

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.

In 2024, the most popular streamer on Twitch in Germany was MONTANABLACK88, he had over five million followers. Twitch is an online live streaming platform on which video game live streaming and broadcasts of esports competitions can be found.

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.

Twitch streamer Swebliss ranked first as the Swedish-language channel with the highest number of followers as of April 2025. The channel had over 232 thousand followers for the evaluated period. The channel was followed by EmiliaHult, with roughly 208 thousand followers. SampeV2 ranked third with more than 199 thousand followers. In contrast, the most viewed Twitch streamer on a monthly basis, was perrababy, with more than 221 thousand viewership hours over the past 30 days. Online videos in Sweden As for online video watchers, Swedes aged 15 to 25 years were most likely to watch online videos on a weekly basis. Overall, 89 percent of them watched online video, and they were followed by the next age group between 26 and 35 years, 84 percent of whom did. Online videos in the Nordics Sweden came third in the ranking of Nordic countries with most online video watchers, with 74 percent of individuals as of 2020. Norway was first in the list, with 90 percent of the population, and Finland was second, with 79 percent of the population watching videos online.

As of December 2022, the leading Twitch streamer in the League of Legends category in South Korea is Faker with around 3.9 million followers, which is more than double the second most followed channels' number of followers. Faker is also the third most followed League of Legends Twitch streamer worldwide. Twitch stopped operating in South Korea in February 2024.

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A global online user survey found that avid gamers were more likely to follow gaming influencers than casual gamers. As of July 2021, 20 percent of respondents who played video games for at least 11 hours per week followed gaming influencers like Twitch streamers or YouTubers, whereas only 15 percent of overall gaming audiences (with at least one hour of gaming per week) did the same. Gamers from India, Indonesia, and China were most enthusiastic about following gaming influencers, with approximately a quarter of all gamers and around 30 percent of avid gamers doing so.