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 April 2025, SondergaardLol was the most popular Danish-language Twitch channel, with over one thousand concurrent viewers on average. Twitch streamer PlinkoPeter ranked second with around 690 viewers on average, followed by Kian26xx who averaged 644 concurrent viewers.

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.

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.

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 — the channel had a combined *****million hours watched in the preceding ** days.

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In April 2025, skiben was the most popular Norwegian-language Twitch streamer, with a peak viewership of 7,418 viewers in the preceding 30 days. Komplettno ranked second with around 2,017 peak viewers, followed by detoo, who peaked at 1,372 viewers at the same time.

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.

As of February 2025, VALORANT_id was the most popular Indonesian language Twitch channel with a peak viewership of *** viewers in the past thirty days. JessCooGaming ranked second with *** peak viewership.

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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.

In 2024, Ibai was the most popular eSports channel on streaming platform Twitch based on peak viewers. The channel peaked at over ******* concurrent viewers. Caedrel was ranke second with a live viewership peak of *******.

Tumblurr was the most popular Italian-language Twitch streamer as of April 2025, with a peak audience of more than 138 thousand viewers in the past 30 days. TheRealMarzaa ranked second, with over 41 thousand peak viewers, followed by ControCalcio_, who peaked at 20.15 thousand viewers at the same time.

In April 2025, Komplettno was the most popular Norwegian-language Twitch channel based on average concurrent viewers while live. The channel averaged 871 live concurrent viewers. Detoo was ranked second with 386 average concurrent viewers.

Perrababy was the most popular Swedish-language Twitch channel based on average concurrent viewers while live in April 2025. The channel averaged 1, 406 live concurrent viewers. CyrusTWO was ranked second with 1,099 average concurrent viewers.

LykkeOgRasmus was the most popular Danish-language Twitch streamer as of April 2025, with a peak audience of 4,243 viewers in the past 30 days. Draxill69 ranked second, with around 3.3 thousand peak viewers, followed by Jaxstyle, who peaked at more than 2.4 thousand viewers at the same time.

In April 2025, perrababy was the most popular Swedish-language Twitch channel, with a peak viewership of 20,266 viewers in the past 30 days. barjonasbaby ranked second with 9,540 peak viewers, followed by CyrusTWO, who peaked at 2,619 viewers at the same time.

SondergaardLol was the most watched Danish-language Twitch channel as of April 2025, with around 80 thousand viewership hours in the past month. Twitch streamer Kian26xx ranked second with over 38 thousand hours, followed by ConnieHeinz, who also had roughly 37 thousand viewership hours.

In April 2025, the most watched Norwegian-language Twitch streamer was detoo. The Twitch channel had over 70 thousand viewership hours in the past 30 days. Second and third were the channels Danniz and Emzia.