In March 2025, the United States accounted for over 23 percent of Twitch's desktop traffic worldwide. Germany accounted for a further 8.59 percent of the streaming platform's desktop traffic. Twitch has gained massively in popularity during coronavirus-related lockdowns in 2020.

As of November 2024, more than seven in ten online visitors to streaming platform Twitch.tv were male. Women only accounted for 27.86 percent of global desktop visitors to Twitch.tv. Twitch is a popular platform for video gaming live streams.

This statistic illustrates the distribution of Twitch users in the United States. As of December 2024, 9 percent of 18 - 19 year old consumers do so in the U.S. This is according to exclusive results from the Consumer Insights Global survey which shows that 40 percent of 20 - 29 year old customers also fall into this category.Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than 2,000,000 interviews.

As of February 2025, users between the ages of 25 to 34 years accounted for the biggest share of Twitch.tv users worldwide. During the measured period, users in this age group amounted to over 52 percent of Twitch online audiences. Users aged between 35 and 44 years were the second largest demographic accessing with Twitch.

When it comes to distribution of Twitch users in the United States, 37 percent of female consumers fall into this category in the U.S.Statista Consumer Insights offer you all results of our exclusive Statista surveys, based on more than 2,000,000 interviews.

Hero shooter Valorant is one of the top eSports games worldwide and one of the most-watched video games on streaming platform Twitch. In April 2025, Valorant gaming streams generated approximately 58.5 million viewing hours. The free-to-play game is developed and published by Riot Games and was officially released in June 2020.

In 2024, Twitch audiences watched nearly 21 billion hours of video content on the streaming platform, down from an all-time high of 24.3 billion hours of watch time in 2021.

As of May 2020, users in their teens and twenties accounted for more than three-quarters of Twitch's active app user accounts in the United States. According to recent data users aged 20 to 29 years, accounted for 40.6 percent of the video streaming app's user base on the Android platform.

Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play team-based online shooter video game published by Blizzard Entertainment. The player can choose between 35 varied heroes, all of whom have different skills, and each character fulfills a specific role. The game was released in October 2022 on multiple gaming platforms. Overwatch 2 events on the video streaming service Twitch were watched by an average of 25,000 viewers in April 2025.

According to a survey of social media users conducted in the United Kingdom between April 2023 and March 2024, livestreaming and social video platform for gamers was used by approximately 15 percent of the users aged between 18 and 29 years. In UK social media users aged between 30 and 49 years, Twitch usage interested approximately eight percent of respondents.

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 2022, there were around 33.2 million Twitch users in the United States and this figure is estimated to rise to 36.7 million by 2025.

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.

Genshin Impact is a cross-platform action-role-playing game developed by miHoYo. It is a free-to-play, open world game and available on PC, PlayStation 4, iOS, and Android devices. In April 2025, Genshin Impact gaming streams on the video streaming platform Twitch were watched by an average of 4,560 viewers.

League of Legends is a free online battle arena game. The objective of this game, in almost all game modes, is to destroy the enemy Nexus. The game is not only popular among players, but also among eSports viewers. League of Legends events on the video streaming service Twitch were watched for a combined 78.9 million hours in April 2025.

The COVID-19 pandemic that spread across the world at the beginning of 2020 was not only a big threat to public health, but also to the entire entertainment industry. While cinemas and theaters closed their doors to try to stem the spread of the disease, many people turned to home entertainment and eSports during periods of self-isolation. In March 2020, the online eSports streaming service Twitch set an all-time record of 22.7 million peak daily active users.

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 April 2025, the most popular game was battle royale title Fortnite. The game was streamed on 5,261 channels on average in the preceding 30 days. Second-ranked Valorant netted an average of 2,972 channels.

Counter Strike is a series of first-person shooter video games in which two teams compete to perpetrate or prevent a terrorist act (bomb attack, hostage taking, etc.). One of the latest games in the series, Counter Strike 2, is popular with gamers and viewers alike. Streams regarding the 2023 sequel to Counter Strike: Global Offensive on the video streaming service Twitch were watched by an average of 87,000 viewers in April 2025.

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.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Twitch live-streaming app generated approximately 11.47 million downloads to mobile devices worldwide. The live-streaming platform is especially popular among gamers, and downloads have increased significantly in 2020.

First developed by Markus Persson, Minecraft it is a sandbox video game which officially released in November 2011. The game immerses players in a dynamically created world composed of blocks representing different materials such as earth, sand, stone, water, lava or minerals, forming various structures and animals or monsters. Minecraft events on the video streaming service Twitch were watched by an average of 38,700 viewers in April 2025.