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35+ Twitch Statistics for 2024 [Revenue, Usage, Growth Trends]

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Last modified on February 7th, 2024 at 5:21 pm

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For millions of viewers, watching someone play CS:GO or Dota 2 is more exciting than playing the actual game.

How about other games?

How about the number of people who love to watch games on Twitch?

How about the number of streamers making money by streaming their gaming?

You can find out answers to ALL these questions and a few other important Twitch statistics that highlights the growth and impact of this game streaming website.

Before going into details of each of the stats, here are some:

Interesting highlights about Twitch!

  • The Twitch app was downloaded 13.5 million times in Q2 2022
  • The UK alone had 1.3 million active Twitch app users in June 2021
  • August 2022, streamer Ibai had the most concurrent viewers on his channel.
  • English is the most spoken language on Twitch in 2022
  • League of Legends is the most popular Twitch game in 2022
  • In 2022, so far, 80% of Twitch online visitors are male
  • The US has the biggest distribution of desktop traffic to Twitch in 2022
  • Twitch generated 65.13$ million through in-app purchases in Q2 2022
  • In 2022, 90% of desktop traffic of Twitch.tv came from direct visits

Now let’s dive into details.

1. How long has Twitch been around?

(Business of Apps)

The history of this popular video game streaming platform began back in 2007. Justin Kan and Emmett Shear created it under the name Justin.tv. It had several content categories, but the gaming section saw the fastest growth.

Following the rising popularity of gaming streams, it was given its own platform, Twitch.tv in 2011. Now its the leading streaming platform for gamers.

 2. Is Twitch owned by Amazon?

(Business of Apps) (Stream Scheme)

Amazon, the retail giant purchased Twitch for a cool $970 million in August 2014. Emmett Shear remains its CEO and the company is now headquartered in San Francisco, with 15 offices in 9 countries across the world.

Twitch User Statistics

3. The UK had 1.3 million active Twitch app users in June 2021.

(Statista)

In the UK, seems like the IPhones are the most used mobile devices to stream games.

When it comes to Twitch app users, there massive gap between iOS and Android device users on the platform:

IOS: 1.2 million active app users

Android: 98,093 active app users

However, there were 10% (9,236) more monthly active Android users in May 2021, while iOS users remained constant.

4. There were 89.164 average concurrent Twitch channels in September 2022.

(Twitch Tracker)

The number of average active channels changes with the season, growing during winters (and pandemic lockdowns) only to decline over the summer. To illustrate, there were over 89.000 active channels in September 2021.

5. Over 8 million streamers were active in July 2022.

(Statista)

Twitch analytics indicate this is a minor decline from January 2021, when a record 9.9 million streamers used the platform. Specifically, there were 8.042 million active streamers recorded in July 2022.

The biggest month-on-month Twitch growth was seen in April 2020, when Twitch users grew by 42% to reach 7.2 million.

6. Twitch statistics in 2022 show that 80% of Twitch online visitors are male.

(Statista) (Statista)

According to the Twitch demographics in 2022, the majority of the streamers worldwide are men. Twitch subscriber stats suggest female Twitch streamers made up 20% of global users in 2022.

According to a study by Statista, most streamers are between the ages of 25 to 34 years, and they account for almost half (49.7%) of the visitors. 

7. Twitch demographics in 2022 show that the US has the biggest distribution of desktop traffic to Twitch.

(Statista)

As of May 2022, with a desktop distribution of 21.55%, the United States has the largest desktop distribution to Twitch. In second place is Germany with 6.7%, while the Republic of Korea is in third with 4.91%.

8. English is the most spoken language on Twitch, according to twitch statistics in 2022.

(Statista)

Based on the Twitch stats in 2022 in July, English accounts for 56.47% of the content on the streaming platform.

9. In August 2022, almost 90% of desktop traffic of Twitch.tv came from direct visits.

(Statista)

The latest statistics about Twitch show that 87.42% of Twitch’s traffic came from direct visits. While online, 6.55% came from social media and 1.21% from referrals.

10. Twitch had 1.17 billion total visits in the first half of 2021.

(Similarweb) (Alexa)

The web traffic analysis company Alexa currently ranks Twitch as the 35th most popular website globally in terms of internet traffic and engagement, and 12th in the UK. The average user spends 8 minutes and 22 seconds on the website daily.

Twitch Usage Statistics

11. In the second quarter of 2022, Twitch is the leading gaming live stream platform.

(Statista)

Twitch statistics in 2022 show that with over 5,600 hours streamed, Twitch is the leading gaming live stream platform. Right behind are Youtube Gaming live with over 1,100 hours and Facebook gaming with almost 600 hours streamed.

12.  Users worldwide watched 6.34 billion hours in the first quarter of 2021.

(Statista)

Twitch viewer stats clearly mark this as the all-time peak in viewership figures, comfortably beating the second quarter of 2020 when users consumed 5.07 billion hours.

The same period in 2021 saw 1.06 billion hours watched on Facebook, while visitors to the YouTube Gaming Live platform watched a total of 1.37 billion hours.

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Twitch Revenue Statistics

13. How much does Twitch make?

(Statista) (Business of Apps) (Statista)

The Amazon-owned company generated $2.6 billion in revenue in 2021 – that’s half a billion more than the previous year!

While Twitch stats in 2022 show that the platform generated 65.13$ million through in-app purchases worldwide in the second quarter of 2022.

14. The UK was the second-largest Twitch market by downloads in 2020.

(Appfigures)

As could be expected, the US is at the top of the list with over 4.3 million downloads in the same period, followed by the UK with 766,200 downloads. The total number of downloads worldwide reached an astounding 10.7 million for the year.

15. Twitch vs Youtube.

((The Information) (SuperData)

Twitch generated $230 million from ad revenue in 2018. In 2019, Twitch advertising revenue was projected to bring in about $300 million.

The Amazon subsidiary aimed to raise the figure to $1 billion jointly from advertising and commerce in 2020, but in keeping with company policy, no ad-specific revenue data has been disclosed.

Despite a smaller Twitch viewership, the income was at 1.54 billion in 2019, as opposed to YouTube’s $1.46 billion, and both companies are said to have recorded high ad revenues.

16. Twitch will lower subscription prices to boost subscriber count and creator revenue.

(Esports News UK)

UK users will be glad to hear Twitch plans on offering its services at cheaper prices. Namely, Britons now enjoy ad-free streaming, exclusive subscriber chat, as well as emotes and sub badges with a tier 1 subscription for only £5.

17. There were 51,500 registered Twitch partners in 2020.

(Twitch Tracker)

Twitch partners is the company’s term for experienced affiliate streamers with a large number of followers and exclusive, copyrighted content.

As per Twitch Tracker, the number of partners has been steadily increasing over the past few years, growing 44.6% since 2018.

18. Estimates for the global eSports market in 2021 exceeded $1 billion.

(Statista)

That’s a year-on-year growth of $137 million or over 12%. The largest portion of the income consists of ads and sponsorships, totaling $641 million.

But this is merely a sign of things to come: revenue from the worldwide eSports market is projected to blow up and top $1.6 billion in 2024. 

Famous Twitch Streamers Statistics

19. Fextralife’s channel had over 1.5 billion views as of July 2021.

(Statista) 

Fextralife, a gaming hub and news source, is the most viewed channel across the entire platform. As of July 2021, the channel had 1.57 billion total views, according to Twitch streamer stats.

Riot Games is second among the top Twitch streamers with 1.29 billion, while ShadbaseMurderTV, a channel that until recently focused exclusively on a single game, had 719 million views.

20. Ninja is currently followed by over 18 million people.

(Twitchtracker)

Known as Tyler Blevins to his friends and family, Ninja is the most popular streamer in the world with over18.3 million gamers following at the time of writing, according to global Twitch channel stats.

21. Syndicate, Mongraal, and SovietWomble are some of the top UK Twitch streamers.

(Socially Powerful)

Straight out of Manchester, Tom Cassell and his streamer alter ego Syndicate now have 3 million Twitch followers. He began his streaming journey back in 2016, mainly broadcasting games like Minecraft and Call of Duty. 

Kyle ‘Mongraal’ Jackson is a British gaming prodigy with 2.7 million Twitch followers at only 15 years of age. He earned a qualification in the Fortnite World Cup in 2018 and secured a cash prize of $375,000.

Though his Twitch handle doesn’t sound very British, SovietWomble gained popularity in the UK and worldwide by playing a variety of video games and through his ‘Random Bulshittery’ series. The Brighton-based streamer can now boast over 1.3 million followers.

22. In 2020, xQcOW earned close to $2 million.

(Statista)

Well, if you’ve spent years studying for an advanced degree, you best look away now. Felix Lengyel, better known as xQcOW to the Twitch faithful, was the highest-paid streamer in 2020, earning $1.98 million for his gaming exploits.

Following closely are Nick Kolcheff (Nickmercs) with $1.73 million and Ibai Llanos (Ibai), who raked in $1.37 million in the same year.

23. Felix Lengyel’s channel was watched for close to 40 million hours in May 2021.

(Statista)

Better known as xQcOW, the highest-paid Twitch streamer for 2020 broadcast content worth 38.9 million viewing hours during a single month.

24. As of August 2022, streamer Ibai had the most concurrent viewers on his channel.

(Statista)

With 3.3 million peak concurrent viewers, Ibai Llanos currently holds the record for the most number of viewers in a single day. The previous record was set by TheGrefg back in January 2021, when he had 2.39 million viewers.

Twitch Game Statistics

25. The general chat category was the most popular overall by hours watched. 

(Statista)

It seems gamers can’t get enough of good, old-fashioned chit-chat: Just Chatting had 1.9 billion hours of watch-time globally in 2020. The only game that got anywhere near was League of Legends, with 1.4 billion hours of watch-time worldwide. 

As expected, Fortnite also secured its spot among the most popular games on Twitch with 904 million watched hours. Minecraft is not far behind with 459 hours in 2020.

26. Which was the most streamed game in 2022?

(Statista)

The Twitch facts in 2022 have revealed that in August, Valorant had a combined of 4.09 million streaming hours, making it the most stremed game in 2022.

27. Which is the most popular game on Twitch?

(Statista) (Statista)

According to the latest Twitch statistics in 2022, League of Legends is the most popular game on Twitch, with over 52.6 billion all-time views worldwide.

Second is Fortnite with almost 30 billion and in third place is GTA with 27 billion views.

On the other hand if we rank the games by peak viewers, Rust was the most popular game with over 380,000 viewers in August 2022.

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28. Gamers watched 41 million hours of GTA V streams during one week in June 2021.

(Statista)

Or, to put it another way, Twitch users watched a combined 4.7 millennia of GTA V gameplay in a single week. So, yeah, you could say Grand Theft Auto V was the game of the summer of 2021 in terms of weekly hours viewed on Twitch. It was closely followed by LoL with 40 million hours of viewing.

29. The most popular Twitch clip of April 2021 featured a pornstar.

(StreamsCharts)

The predominantly young and male Twitch audience apparently can’t resist some mature content as well, as a segment of pornstar actress Mia Malkova’s stream where she talks about her first kiss while seductively lounging in a bathtub got a whopping 626,260 views in April 2021.

30. The purse for a Dota 2 tournament eclipsed renowned traditional sporting events.

(Statista)

One of the most popular games on Twitch and in eSports generally, Dota 2 has always had a large audience. But the fact that the International 2017 Dota 2 tournament had a purse of $24.7 million, larger than traditional sporting juggernauts such as the Confederations Cup or the Golf Masters, still surprised many. 

Mobile Streaming Statistics

31. In December 2020, users watched 326 million hours of mobile gaming events.

(Statista)

This is a decline of 36 million hours or 10% compared to the previous month. The highest number of mobile gaming hours watched was recorded in July 2020, when 381 million hours of mobile gaming content were viewed worldwide on all streaming platforms.

32. Twitch 2022 statistics show that the Twitch app had over 13.5 million mobile downloads.

(Statista)

In the second quarter of 2022, the Twitch app had 13.63 million downloads to mobile devices. However, this dropped almost 4 million downloads compared to the first period in 2021.

33. Which country has the most Twitch app downloads from Google Play?

(Statista)

An interesting Twitch fact in 2022 is that Brazil is the country with most android downloads of the Twitch app. Brazil has just over 660 thousand android downloads, while right behind are the United States with 658 thousand downloads.

34. Which country has the most Twitch app iOS dowloads?

(Statista)

The ultimate leader in iOS dowloads of the Twitch app are the United States. With 1.2 million Twitch downloads the US has almost five times more downloads than Japan which ranks in second with nearly 250 thousand.

35. The UK accounted for 469,000 Twitch downloads for iOS in Q1 2021.

(Statista)

Looking at iOS downloads, the Twitch mobile app was downloaded a total of 5.6 million times during the first quarter of 2021. There were over 2.1 million downloads in the United States, followed by 469,165 downloads in the UK, and 268,016 in Canada.

Twitch Vs. Other Streaming Platforms

36. YouTube Gaming grows, but Twitch is still the Goliath. 

(Streamlabs)

YouTube Gaming Live may have doubled the hours watched on the platform from 2019 to 2020, but Twitch is still the undisputed leader of the streaming world.

For example, during the fourth quarter of 2020, YouTube Gaming users consumed 1.92 billion hours, a mere third of the 5.4 billion hours of Twitch gameplay watched. Encouragingly, this marked an increase of almost 15% from the previous quarter for Twitch.

37. Facebook Gaming saw a threefold increase of hours watched and streamed in 2020.

(Streamlabs)

Facebook Gaming is the smallest of the three streaming competitors, but the wide user base of the social network giant should nоt be underestimated.

The 3.1 billion hours consumed on the platform during 2020 are a significant jump from the 1.1 billion hours of the previous year, and there was a similar surge in hours streamed, from 11.7 million in 2019 to 33.5 million hours in 2020.

38. Twitch has 3x as many concurrent viewers as the nearest competitor.

(Streamlabs)

During the last quarter of 2020, Twitch recorded 2.5 million simultaneous viewers, compared to YouTube’s 870,000 average concurrent viewers and Facebook’s 410,000. Competitors should note that, according to Twitch analytics, this is a 10% increase in concurrent viewers compared to just six months earlier.

Did you know? Roblox has an average of 3,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch.

39. Twitch has 10x as many unique channels as Youtube Gaming.

(Business of Apps)

And fifty times as many as Facebook Gaming! Twitch stats indicate the company had 10.6 million unique channels in the third quarter of 2020, compared to YouTube Gaming’s 913,000 and Facebook Gaming’s 270,000.

Before we go AFK 

It’s clear that eSports have become a big deal, with countless gaming events to watch and bet on.

On the other hand, users will always benefit from the fierce competition between platforms, for now, Twitch remains the most popular live streaming service and our cool Twitch stats are here to prove it.

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FAQs

Can I watch traditional sports on Twitch?

Despite being primarily an eSports platform, streaming professional sports on Twitch was recently introduced as the company attempts to branch out and stay ahead of the competition. Viewers can watch streams from the channels of football clubs like Real Madrid and Arsenal, while the relaunch of the TwitchSports channel makes it easier for users to find sporting events from the NBA, NFL, Premier League, Champions League, UFC and others across the platform. 

How much data does Twitch use?

One hour of Twitch streaming in the average 480p quality uses up 700 MB of data. A high-quality 720p stream requires 900 MB per hour, while watching your favourite gamer play in 1080 HD takes 1.5 GB per hour of streaming.

What is the best time to stream on Twitch?

It’s hard to determine a general best time to stream, as this depends on various factors. But streaming from 7 to 11 in the morning (in your timezone) should give you less competition to fight off.

How do I find out how many subscribers a channel has?

Since Twitch only shares streamers’ follower counts publicly, the number of subscribers cannot be found on a channel page. If you’re interested in a particular streamer’s subs, you should try tools like Twitch Tracker.

How do I get viewers on Twitch?

Getting your first viewers on Twitch can take some time. What beginners can do is get friends and family to subscribe, promote themselves on social media, or stream during peak hours. Using chatbots or co-streaming can also help boost your viewer count.

Who has the most followers on Twitch?

Richard Tyler Blevins, commonly known as Ninja, has the highest count of Twitch followers. He is currently followed by 16.8 million people.

How do Twitch streamers make money?

Today’s top streamers earn money through subscriptions, donations, various partner and affiliate platforms, as well as Bits – a virtual currency that viewers ‘cheer’ with, earning streamers $0.01 per Bit. Twitch stats show that some gamers combine Twitch incomes with their professional gaming earnings from tournament prizes and sponsorships.

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