In addition to watching video game streamers, you can also watch Twitch users stream cooking shows, provide commentary on sporting events, and discover new things while having an interactive audience | Twitch Partners are essentially a step up above Affiliates, with a few added perks |
---|---|
Highest average Twitch viewership 2020, thousands Data source: We also took a snapshot of the same Twitch stats in 2021, up to late March | Stream on 12 different days• 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 |
While still not as popular as Twitch, in the video game streaming market with its YouTube Gaming initiative which launched in 2015.
15Audience numbers for the 2018 edition are not available, but the , suggesting numbers were high | Access all the content you care about, from frenetic Overwatch multiplayer matches to soothing Bob Ross art demos |
---|---|
All three sites feature in the most-visited other sites of Twitch visitors | Fox News and ESPN were logging 1 |
Google completes the top-five, in second place.
In 2019, — though we might assume this was for the opening day rather than the whole event | Then, later that year, Twitch Interactive was acquired by Amazon |
---|---|
, an Amazon subsidiary live streaming video website• , a computer or video game that challenges the player's reaction time• These circumstances also inspired creativity, with a 3 | Average concurrent viewers: Twitch vs |
Concurrent viewership during the launch of , making this the most concurrently-viewed game launch in history, until VALORANT came along.
5