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.

Between 2016 and 2021, the average daily viewership of chess on Twitch experienced a steady rise, peaking in 2021 with an average of nearly 16 thousand viewers per day. However, following 2021, the average daily views dropped by around 68 percent in 2024, reaching an average daily viewership of 5,093 on the streaming platform.

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 February 2025, the most popular streaming channel on Twitch in terms of average viewers was KaiCenat. The channel averaged 85,439 viewers worldwide in the last 30 days.

Apex Legends is an online royal battle game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released in February 2019 for Xbox One, Windows and PlayStation 4. Apex Legends events on the video streaming service Twitch were watched by an average of nearly 20,000 viewers in January 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SondergaardLol was the most popular Danish-language Twitch streamer as of November 2024, with a peak audience of 3,448 viewers in the past 30 days. JKFIFA ranked second, with over 2.2 thousand peak viewers, followed by MariusCOW, who peaked at more than 2.1 thousand viewers at the same time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Call of Duty is a series of war first-person shooter video games. The series was created in 2003 by the studio Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Some of the first games in the series take place during the Second World War, while many of the following releases revolve around more fictional modern conflicts. Call of Duty: Warzone was released to the public in March 2020 as a free-to-play battle royale version of the beloved franchise. Streaming events of the shooter game were watched by an average of 25,270 viewers in January 2025.

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.

As of February 2025, VALORANT_id was the most popular Indonesian language Twitch channel with a peak viewership of 151 viewers in the past thirty days. JessCooGaming ranked second with 128 peak viewership.

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.

In November 2024, OskarWesterlin was the most popular Norwegian-language Twitch streamer, with a peak viewership of 3,753 viewers in the preceding 30 days. Komplettno ranked second with around 2,935 peak viewers, followed by Sayeed, who peaked at 2,321 viewers at the same time.

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.