This rise in popularity has been matched by money. More up-to-date stats on daily and monthly unique Twitch viewers are not available at the time of writing. Tip: You can make this more complex by e.g. Highest average concurrent viewers, last 15 streams, March 2020. Fornite is still prominent, though has not come close to matching its 2018 peak, during which it drew over 20% of Twitch viewers. You can e.g. League of Legends is leads the way in all-time views by some distance. With 45 million unique visitors by October 2013, it was only a matter of time before the big names of digital business came sniffing.

TwitchCon 2018 hosted the finals of Fortnite’s Fall Skirmish tournament, which saw a total of $10 million in prize money distributed among the winners. Ask the average person to name a famous Twitch streamer, and they will most likely name Ninja. You can opt out anytime. Partner. He is followed by (HasanAbi) at 2.1 million hours, and allkeyshop_tv at 2 million hours. The current record for concurrent Twitch viewers was set by the League of Legends Worlds in November 2019, with 1.74 million viewers. Fortnite hosts its own tournaments – the figure listed here is from the Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament June 2018, also featured in the most-concurrently viewed event listed above. Please create an employee account to be able to mark statistics as favorites. In terms of the age split, however, these stats show a greater percentage of Twitch users falling into younger age categories, with 73% in total falling into the two brackets aged under 35. Partner. As of April 2020, Alexa ranked Twitch 33 in the world for engagement and traffic, while SimilarWeb placed it 48.

Top sites visited immediately before Twitch, Twitch was bought by Amazon in August 2014, for $970 million in an all-cash deal. Alexa finds that Reddit is the site with the greatest overlap score with Twitch (based on audience and search terms), with a score of 29.5, followed by Discord on 29.4, and Steamcommunity.com on 28.3. You need at least a Single Account to use this feature. Current subs Paid Prime Gifted Tier 1 ($4.99) Tier 2 ($9.99) Tier 3 ($24.99) #141: 9 DanucD: 3800: 3800 ? Here, Mixer moves into second-place, with a 17% share courtesy of the 28.3 million hours streamed – around double those of YouTube. Second-place League of Legends logged 178,021 viewers (6.4%) and 30 million hours viewed, with Twitch’s ‘Just Chatting’ section coming third on 172,699 (6.2%) and 29 million hours viewed. On this occasion, however, the clip was picked up on Twitter and Discord, and was hosted on other channels, with a peak of 1,500 views when first broadcast in January 2019. The San Diego Union Tribute estimated 25,000 visitors per day for the three-day event.

At any given time in the week in question, 45.5% of channels were broadcasting ‘other’ games – that is, those outside the top-19. Twitch took on the company’s team, but all products will be discontinued.

Keeping top talent on board has proved a challenge for Twitch in light of competition from rival streaming platforms. Twitch has reportedly pursued a number of celebrities (including Will Smith) and online influencers to in order to expand beyond game content, and ultimately challenge YouTube as a content platform. Twitch also broadcasts some of the world’s most prominent esports competitions, which offer lucrative sums of prize money to professional players, many of whom are contracted to franchise teams which carry considerable cachet. (October 2, 2020). As soon as this statistic is updated, you will immediately be notified via e-mail. According to Twitch Stats, the best thing to stream on Twitch in terms of ratio of viewers is ‘slots’ – which encompasses a range of online casino type games. Initially using crowdsourced text overlaid onto videos, the app moved on to embrace computer vision and machine learning to help users find content within videos. Year-on-year increases in Twitch viewers, 2019 vs 2020. This 2019 edition saw this figure increased to $34 million. Cheers from Twitch and Amazon Prime subscribers make up a good proportion of his income, he told journalists. Regardless of the number of subscribers, there has been a huge rise in the number of people making money from Twitch over the past couple of years, with an 86% increase in those bringing in revenue between 2017 and 2018. Counter Strike Global Offensive (121,106, or 4.4%) and Fortnite (118,871, 4.3%) round out the top-five, with 20 million hours watched each. The greater share (41%) are 16-24, with around a third aged 25-34. A platform on which people watch other people play videogames might once have been considered dangerous folly.

US Twitch users can also earn Bits by watching ads. Numbers from TwitchTracker, which collates real-time as well as long-term Twitch statistics, show increases in the average monthly Twitch broadcasters. By combining your Tiers and your giveaways, you can restrict entries to only certain members of your community on Twitch.

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he’ll be pursuing a musical career much further, $20-30 million paid by Microsoft to Blevins, A story on Kotaku reveals that there may be some underhand tactics at play, Twitch has reportedly pursued a number of celebrities, minor NBA games, USA international basketball games, content creators big money to stay exclusive, The Verge reports, however, that YouTube need not fear too much as of yet, closed down its standalone gaming app in 2018, who stream through its Gaming Creator program, esports tournaments regularly fill huge real-life stadia, Twitch commands a 12% share of the market, partnering with ELEAGUE for the aforementioned, daily hours viewed on Twitch increased from 33 million to 43 million, most-viewed streamer on Just Chatting is Evelone192, three-month average viewer count of 11,482. garnering 1.73 million concurrent Twitch views. The company initially functioned as a fan engagement platform centred on customised virtual currencies creators could share with viewers, as well as offering chat functionality. a data center), 3) You're accessing the website from a network that has a high level of abuse (i.e. Acting on this interest, the site relaunched later in 2007, allowing users to create their own channels and broadcast their own content through the platform. Twitch subscribers can sign up to Twitch Prime for $7.99/month, for which they receive access to various games and extras, as well as streaming content through Amazon Prime Video. This found – unsurprisingly – Ninja at the top of the pile with 52,000 subscribers (140 of which pay $9.99 tier-2 fess, and 105 on the $24.99 tier-3). Twitch statistics from SimilarWeb dating from February 2020, show that the US is by far the biggest Twitch market in the world, accounting for over one fifth of web traffic (desktop) – 23% to be precise. Followers. Another set of stats showed average daily hours viewed on Twitch increased from 33 million to 43 million between 8 March and 21 March. "Most popular Twitch channels as of October 2020, ranked by number of followers (in millions)."

The latter figure is some way short of the $500-600 million range targeted by Twitch. League of Legends streaming by creators is more concentrated around the weekend, with the days before and after also seeing a bump in activity. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Peak Just Chatting viewing, however, occurs in the early afternoon during the week, with a higher concentration of viewing occurring on Sunday. Perhaps we might ascribe this to a trailing off of interest after the initial launch for streamers or unfavourable algorithm for smaller broadcasters. VALORANT did manage, however, to become the most-watched game over any 24 hour period, racking up a total of 34 million hours on Twitch in total. Twitch.tv was ranked 48 globally by SimilarWeb in April 2020; 2 in video games. Even the Fortnite World Cup in June 2019, with a $30 million prize pool, could not edge this out, reaching 1.28 million peak concurrent viewers. As of Q4 2019, average concurrent Twitch viewers numbered 1.05 million, compared to 0.42 million for YouTube Gaming Live. Microsoft’s Mixer has proven to be a particularly big draw, with Gothalion (million followers on Twitch), joining Ninja and Shroud on the young platform. New, Everything you need to know about the industry development, Find studies from all around the internet. But it gives us an idea of the quantity of top content makers it considers essential enough to its popularity to give a cut of Twitch revenue. Tyler Blevins, however, has now left the platform along with which he rose to prominence, moving on to Microsoft Mixer in August 2019, claiming Twitch was hindering his growth beyond gaming. Quick Analysis with our professional Research Service: Content Marketing & Information Design for your projects: Industry-specific and extensively researched technical data (partially from exclusive partnerships). Counts.Live allows you to track the changes as they happen, allowing you to keep track of your milestones with ease! Twitch is a livestreaming platform focused on video games.

Seen Thu, Oct 1 at 18:31. Marketplace | News & Insights | Data | Events, 35,000 attendees were reported for the first edition, 2017 edition, held in Long Beach played host to 50,000 visitors, San Jose event suffered from overcrowding, The San Diego Convention Center reported 28,000 attendees, Twitch was banned in the potentially-huge Chinese market in September 2018, concurrent viewership figures and a regular broadcasting schedule. a crawler/scraper), 2) You're accessing the website from a computer network not typically used by humans (i.e. Twitch allows broadcasters to monetise their efforts through the Twitch Partner Program and the Twitch Affiliate Program. The League of Legends Worlds of November 2019 logged 0.64 million concurrent viewers on Riot Games’ channel, putting it very much among the pack by this metric (by top-10 standards). Shroud, on 44,000 (167/98) in second, followed by TimTheTatMan (39,000, 130/253 – one to watch if trying to ascertain the value of a tier-3 subscription). After gaining traction on Reddit, where irreverence reigns, the clip has gone to be viewed 3.71 million times (as of April 2020). With Amazon offering game development through AWS, Twitch’s involvement with the industry around which it is built looks set to deepen. We ran Fortnite, League of Legends, and Just Chatting through the site in April 2020. a community member can be a normal user, while also being a Twitch sub, a 12 month Twitch sub, and a Twitch VIP. The first was worth $15 million, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, the second $20 million led by Thrive Capital. These above are by no means the biggest prize pots available in esports. Nonetheless he claims 7.7 million followers for his Fortnite-centric channel. If we wanted to give it a bit of spin, though, we could say that 2020’s figure is nearly double 2017’s – and four times more than 2013’s. Your custom role should now be available, and you can now add it to one of your Tiers. We might note that this is the second consecutive quarter in which a decline was registered in this metric, after reaching a high point of 46,000 in Q2 2019. The platform is integrated with Amazon Prime and allows streamers to make money by offering in-stream links through which viewers can purchase the games being played. While we’ve seen a slowdown in growth in content creators on Twitch, viewer numbers have been growing at a more solid rate, if we take average concurrent viewers as our measure. This revenue did not all come from Twitch when we used the platform, as he also is followed by five million people on YouTube. Twitch’s popularity has also spilled over into the real world, in the form of TwitchCon.