In January 2025, video streaming platform Twitch had approximately 7.7 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 October 2023, global Twitch audiences spent around 253 million hours watching Just Chatting content on Twitch, with the average viewer count of such content reaching 347 thousand. KaiCenat 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 19.14 million followers in December 2024. 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 17.19 million followers on Twitch. With more than 9.4 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.

In 2022, Twitch audiences watched nearly 1.35 trillion minutes of video content on the streaming platform. This is more than double the amount of time spent in 2019, where viewers watched approximately 660 billion minutes with of content. In the first eight months of 2023, audiences watched about 851 billion minutes of Twitch content, a five percent decrease year-over-year at that point. Gaming content and streaming platforms surged in popularity in 2020, as people turned to video games to keep them entertained and to socialize during the global coronavirus pandemic.

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 AmineMaTue (real name: Mohamed Amine Mahmoud) currently holds the record with the highest number of peak concurrent viewers in 2025 with 562,482.

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 10,390 seconds on average in 2023, to 11,250 seconds - or approximately three hours - in 2024.

In the six months ending March 2024, the United States accounted for over 20.6 percent of Twitch's desktop traffic worldwide. Germany accounted for a further 7.17 percent of the streaming platform's desktop traffic. Twitch has gained massively in popularity during coronavirus-related lockdowns in 2020.

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.

This statistic illustrates the distribution of Twitch users in the United States. As of September 2024, 8 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 39 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 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.

As of February 2024, 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.

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.

This statistic illustrates the distribution of Twitch users in the United States. As of September 2024, 0 percent of no formal educatio old consumers do so in the U.S. This is according to exclusive results from the Consumer Insights Global survey which shows that 0 percent of basic education / primary schoo 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.

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 by an average of 144,000 viewers in January 2025 after peaking at 280,000 average concurrent viewers in October 2021, when the animated series Arcane, which is based on the game, was released on Netflix.

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.

Live streaming video platform Twitch allows viewers to watch some of their favorite gamers live on the internet. A total of 210.4 million hours were streamed on the platform in the third quarter of 2022, representing an three percent increase from the previously measured period.

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 80,400 viewers in January 2025.

Twitch is a live video streaming service which broadcasts live video games and eSports events. The most popular game streamed on the platform in March 2025 was Fortnite. A combined 4.3 million hours of the battle royale game were streamed on Twitch in the 30 days included in the measured period.

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 105,000 worldwide in 2021 before declining for the first time to 92,500 thousand in 2022 before increasing again to 98,900 in early 2025.

From January to November 2024, the most popular gaming category on Twitch was Grand Theft Auto 5 with approximately 1.3 billion hours of content watched worldwide. Just Chatting was ranked first — the general conversation category accumulated more than 2.8 billion hours of global watch time worldwide.

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 billion views.

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.